Tiberius Aerospace
Tiberius Aerospace
11 – 50 Employees
AerospaceDefenseSaaS
Tiberius Aerospace is a defense and aerospace company developing guided munitions, launch systems, and software for modern military operations. Its portfolio includes SCEPTRE, a supersonic liquid-fuelled ramjet munition designed for 155mm howitzers; INVICTUS, a modular canister-launched ramjet missile for long-range precision strikes; and VAULT, an autonomous containerized vertical launch system for land, sea, and air use. The company also develops GRAIL and its Defence-as-a-Service platform, which connects operational data, coalition collaboration, research, and production workflows. Tiberius Aerospace brings together hardware and software teams focused on rapid iteration, AI-supported analysis, and field-informed upgrades to defense systems.

Assistant Controller (Hybrid)

Lead close, controls, cost accounting, and financial reporting for Tiberius Aerospace’s growing aerospace and defense systems business. The role offers a path toward Controller responsibilities within several quarters based on performance.

Description

  • Own critical elements of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close
  • Safeguard general-ledger accuracy through reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, intercompany transactions, and balance-sheet accounts
  • Review journal entries, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and close deliverables
  • Prepare and review monthly financial statements, management reporting packages, flux analyses, and related schedules
  • Investigate accounting discrepancies, unusual transactions, balance-sheet concerns, and close-related risks
  • Build close calendars, standard operating procedures, account ownership frameworks, and documentation standards
  • Support cash management, banking, treasury activities, and payment controls
  • Prepare U.S. GAAP reporting while enhancing accounting policies, internal controls, and finance procedures
  • Coordinate responses to audit, tax, lender, diligence, and compliance requests
  • Contribute to accounting standards implementation and technical accounting research
  • Find control weaknesses and process inefficiencies, develop improvements, and lead implementation
  • Support compliance with government contracting, defense-industry, export-control, and record-retention requirements
  • Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Program Management on inventory, work in process, standard costs, purchase commitments, and capital assets
  • Build cost-accounting processes for complex hardware, prototypes, and production programs
  • Review inventory reserves, capitalization policies, fixed-asset records, and depreciation schedules
  • Improve reporting on material, labor, overhead, manufacturing variances, and program-level performance
  • Support accounting and reporting for government contracts, customer programs, milestone activity, and revenue recognition
  • Improve ERP, expense-management, procurement, financial-reporting, and close-management systems
  • Automate and streamline accounting workflows, reporting, reconciliations, and approval processes
  • Partner with FP&A on actuals, forecasts, budgets, and operating metrics
  • Coach and develop accounting team members
  • Act as a finance partner to functional leaders
  • Contribute to system implementations, financing activities, acquisition diligence, and strategic initiatives
  • Advance toward a Controller position within several quarters based on performance

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related discipline
  • Active CPA license
  • At least 8 years of progressive accounting experience, including public-accounting work at a Big Four firm in audit, assurance, transaction services, or a related accounting advisory practice
  • Background in a high-growth startup or scaling technology, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, hardware, or similarly operationally complex organization
  • Hands-on ownership of month-end close, financial reporting, general ledger, reconciliations, internal controls, audit readiness, and process improvement
  • Experience developing processes, systems, and organizational structure in an evolving environment
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, financial-statement preparation, accounting-policy development, and balance-sheet management
  • Experience with inventory, fixed assets, accruals, cost accounting, or manufacturing accounting
  • Ability to build, lead, mentor, or significantly strengthen an accounting team
  • Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with ERP and financial-reporting platforms
  • Ability to create structure in a changing environment while balancing urgency with sound financial judgment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • High integrity, sound judgment, discretion, and a strong ownership mindset
  • U.S. Person status required for access to export-controlled information and facilities
  • Preferred: experience as an Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager, Senior Accounting Manager, or Controller
  • Preferred: experience with audit readiness, external audits, due diligence, financing activities, or board reporting
  • Preferred: aerospace, defense, government contracting, project accounting, or manufacturing experience
  • Preferred: cost accounting, inventory valuation, standard costing, and manufacturing variance analysis experience
  • Preferred: ERP implementation or optimization experience with NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or comparable platforms
  • Preferred: experience documenting accounting policies, procedures, control matrices, and finance processes
  • Preferred: familiarity with FAR, CAS, DCAA, government contracting, or defense-finance requirements
  • Preferred: people management and team development experience

Benefits

  • Eligibility for a bonus
  • Equity participation
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • 401(k) plan

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