Overview of Role
Full-Time/On-Site (not a remote role)
Own the financial process and build out the financial system for a manufacturing business: cost accuracy, inventory integrity, and entity cash discipline. Translate plant activity into reliable financial and actionable insight.
The controller will spend substantial time on the plant floor to understand operations, WIP and cost flow in real time.
The Controller will report directly to the President of VX Robotics for day-to-day operational matters and maintain a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Corporate CFO for financial reporting, accounting policy, internal controls, compliance, and overall financial governance.
Mandatory Experience
DO NOT APPLY IF you do NOT have manufacturing experience.
You must have built and/or fixed an inventory costing system to qualify for this role.
Core Responsibilities
- Cost Accounting & Unit Economics
- Build and maintain standard costing (BOMs, routings, labor rates, overhead absorption)
- Own variance analysis (material, labor, overhead) and force root-cause accountability with operations
- Deliver per-unit economics (build cost and contribution margin for proprietary site-intelligence units)
- Continuously refine cost assumptions as scale changes
Inventory & Manufacturing Controls
- Design and enforce inventory controls (cycle counts, obsolescence, shrinkage)
- Own WIP tracking and valuation
- Implement tight forecasting, receiving, production, and shipping controls
- Build rolling forecasts tied to production plans and deployment schedules
- Deliver plant-level reporting: throughput, yield, scrap, utilization
- Create process for future implementation of ERP/MRP systems
- Integrate manufacturing data into financial reporting
- Build scalable processes for a 10x volume environment
- Always ensure audit-ready inventory processes and reporting
Close, Reporting Working Capital Discipline
- Lead monthly legal entity close with manufacturing-specific rigor (WIP, COGS accuracy, reserves) and coordinate entity monthly close with Corporate Controller
- Optimize inventory turns and purchasing cadence
- Partner with supply chain on vendor terms and order sizing
- Monitor cash tied up in units (build vs deployed vs financed)
- Manage intercompany inventory & cost allocations
- Manage entity financing reporting for VIN specific equipment
Cross-Functional Leadership, Compliance & Governance
- Maintain GAAP-compliant financials
- Always be prepared for audit readiness and lender diligence
- Partner with corporate finance, operations, engineering, and supply chain
- Act as financial authority in production decisions (batch size, sourcing, design changes)
- Push back when operational decisions destroy margins
- Oversee sales/use tax, inventory accounting, and fixed asset tracking at the entity level
Future Team Structure (Inventory or Manufacturing Accountant)
- Maintain BOMs, routings, and cost standards
- Support inventory counts and WIP reconciliation
- Track WIP and production entries
- Produce unit-level reporting
- Manage cycle counts and inventory reconciliation
- Ensure clean data flow from production to ERP
- Journal entries, reconciliations, and close execution
- Fixed assets, leases, intercompany
Required Background
- 5–7+ years’ experience, with at least 4 years in manufacturing
- Direct experience with cost accounting in a physical product environment
- ERP/MRP implementation or heavy usage experience
- Proven ability to understand the operations on a factory floor, not just in spreadsheets
- Experience scaling partner with engineering on cost changes
- Run daily/weekly variance tracking
- Support audits and reporting
- Own inventory subledger and tie-outs
Education & Credentials
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required
- CPA certification strongly preferred
- MBA or Master’s in Accounting is a plus
Pay: Up to $145,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you have hands-on experience with manufacturing or cost accounting, including inventory and work-in-progress (WIP)? Expound.
- Have you directly built, repaired, or redesigned an inventory costing system?
- How comfortable are you explaining manufacturing cost variances, standard vs. actual costing, and overhead allocation?
- Are you comfortable pushing back on operational decisions that negatively impact margins or cost structure?
- This is a full-time onsite role in Austin (Buda), TX. Are you able to work onsite daily?
- This position's interview process includes a third-round, in-person interview with the President of the company in Buda, TX. If selected to advance, would you be willing and able to attend this interview?
Experience:
- Manufacturing: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
