TL;DR:
Imubit is looking for a top-notch Financial Controller to help disrupt the manufacturing world with breakthrough machine learning technologies.
This is a hybrid role located in Houston, Texas
About us:
At Imubit, we’re not just optimizing industrial processes—we’re redefining how entire industries operate. As the pioneer of Closed Loop AI Optimization (AIO), we are leading the charge in transforming refining, chemical, cement, and mineral mining plants with AI-driven automation. Our Optimizing Brain™ Solution puts the power of AI directly into the hands of engineers, enabling them to build and deploy their own multipurpose models to unlock new levels of efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.
Seven of the top ten U.S. refiners trust Imubit, with our solution deployed in over 90 high-value applications, delivering real-time process optimization that drives margins, reduces emissions, and builds the AI-savvy workforce of the future. Co-founded by a Google Fellow and award-winning data scientist, Imubit brings together domain experts from industry leaders like Exxon, Shell, Holcim, and FLSmidth. Backed by tier-1 venture capital firms such as Insight Partners and Alpha Wave, we are setting a new standard for industrial AI.
Our mission is simple but bold: helping the world’s leading industrial companies solve their most complex challenges, maximize long-term profitability, and future-proof their operations in an era of rapid change. If you’re ready to push boundaries and shape the future of industrial intelligence, now’s the time to join us.
We are looking for:
You, a resourceful, hands-on, and highly knowledgeable Financial Controller, having extensive experience working with venture-backed startups across various growth stages. Passionate about connecting financial data with strategic decision-making, you thrive in dynamic environments where you can deeply understand business goals while thinking big.
As a self-motivated leader, you seek to be a key player in a pioneering, fast-growing team that is building process optimization software years ahead of its competition. You excel at multitasking, executing quickly, and delivering results in a fast-changing landscape.
Beyond crunching numbers, you enjoy collaborating with great people, learning new domains, and driving impact across the business. You recognize a once-in-a-career opportunity—and you seize it.
In this position, you will:
- Strategic Financial Leadership – Work closely with the head of finance to support and drive Imubit’s business growth, profitability, and financial strategy.
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) – Analyze, plan, and manage annual budgets, forecasts, and financial models to ensure sustainable growth.
- Process Optimization – Continuously evaluate and enhance financial processes to improve efficiency, scalability, and operational performance.
- Financial Reporting & Operations – Lead financial reporting, accounting, and finance operations to ensure accuracy, compliance, and transparency.
- Accounting & Compliance – Oversee high-level accounting activities, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal tax laws and financial regulations.
- Global Financial Coordination – Manage and optimize relationships with worldwide financial service providers, including bookkeeping, auditing, and payroll, aligning their performance with company objectives.
- Regulatory & Tax Compliance – Ensure timely and accurate tax filings, reporting, and adherence to all applicable financial regulations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- CPA or CA preferred
- Minimum 5 years of progressive Accounting and Finance experience
- 2 years as a prior Controller within a SaaS or technology-driven organization
- Strong foundation in GAAP accounting, financial reporting, and tax compliance
- Expertise in SaaS revenue recognition (ASC 606), multi-entity consolidation, and subscription billing models
- Experience with NetSuite and process automation
- Experience scaling financial operations in a high-growth environment
- Exposure to Board reporting
Skills & Abilities:
- Strong understanding of subscription-based accounting and revenue recognition rules under ASC 606.
- Ability to manage deferred revenue, recognize contract revenue, and handle multi-element arrangements.
- Experience in preparing GAAP-compliant financial statements and managing audits.
- Eagerness to remediate audit findings.
- Ability to partner cross-departmentally to provide actionable insights on unit economics, LTV, CAC, and ARR/MRR trends.
- Experience in forecasting and budgeting to support strategic decisions.
- Proficiency in ERP and financial software (NetSuite).
- Experience implementing automation for financial processes (billing, reconciliations, reporting).
- Knowledge of recurring revenue models, pricing strategies, and contract complexities.
- Proven ability to establish financial controls and governance frameworks.
- Experience mitigating financial risks related to revenue leakage, fraud, or compliance gaps.
- Ability to prepare financials for investors, lenders, and board members.
- Experience consolidating financials across multiple subsidiaries, currencies, and tax jurisdictions.
- Proficiency in intercompany eliminations and multi-currency reporting
- Strong understanding of corporate tax compliance, SaaS sales tax
- Ability to work with external tax advisors on transfer pricing, tax planning, and cross-border tax compliance.
- Expertise in month-end close, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial controls.
- Ability to streamline and optimize financial operations for efficiency and accuracy.
- Strong oversight of AP, AR, payroll, expense management, and general ledger maintenance.
Imubit provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Imubit complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Imubit does not accept or retain unsolicited CVs or phone calls and/or respond to them or to any third party representing job seekers.
No visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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What We Do
At Imubit, we’re driven by a mission to tackle and solve the toughest challenges at chemical plants and refineries.
Our solution - the Imubit Closed Loop Neural Network™ - is an AI process optimization technology that enables plant managers to discover, engineer and monetize process optimization opportunities considered impossible until now.
As the first-ever technology of its kind in the industry, our neural network solution interconnects planning and economics, process engineering, process control and operations, in using historical data to learn subtle nonlinear dynamics, and optimize economically critical plant parameters in real time. This end-to-end solution is currently running in the world’s largest refining and petrochemical plants, unlocking millions of dollars a year in annual margin for operators.
Imubit is led by globally-renowned, Google-endorsed machine learning scientists and world-class hydrocarbon processing experts with over 220 years of industry experience.
