Controller

Poolside Infrastructure Company • New York, NY

4d

About The Position

At PIC, we are reimagining how AI infrastructure is developed, financed, and scaled by combining hyperscale-grade facilities with direct access to energy, land, and fiber at an unprecedented scope. Backed by a best-in-class supply chain, world-class partners, and advanced partnerships with major hyperscale customers, PIC is poised to become a multi-billion dollar platform with ambitions to layer cloud, compute, and advanced manufacturing on top of our energy foundation. This role is a rare opportunity to join an AI Infrastructure company at its inception. It’s a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives on building from the ground up. You’ll build PIC’s finance function from first principles, designing the systems, processes, and insights that deliver accuracy, real-time visibility, and scalability as the company grows. You see finance not as a back-office function, but as a strategic enabler of execution and growth. As the Controller, you will be the accounting leader of the group, and PIC’s first dedicated accounting leader: senior enough to design the function, pragmatic enough to dive into the details while operating with minimal infrastructure, and motivated by creating systems that last. We are looking for someone who sees automation as part of the job, not someone else's problem. Your mission is to ensure that accounting records and financial information are always accurate, complete, and available. You will set a best-in-class standard from day one and grow your scope as the company expands. You are equally comfortable with the pace and ambiguity of an early stage environment and the rigour and discipline that infrastructure businesses demand.

Requirements

• CPA-qualified, with a background in audit that has given you a strong command of USGAAP
• Proven track record managing a full monthly close cycle, from journal entries to financial statements
• Prior experience in an infrastructure or asset-heavy industry is required - data centers, energy or utilities
• Prior experience in public co’s preferred
• Familiar with multi-entity group structures and knowledge of intercompany accounting
• Advanced working knowledge of NetSuite, or other
• You have built a finance platform from scratch in an early-stage environment
• You are comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy and navigating ambiguity
• You take ownership of your workstreams while genuinely enjoying collaboration with the broader team
• You are hardworking, rigorous and deeply intolerant of inaccuracy

Nice To Haves

• Bonus if you can vibe-code your own solutions: whether that's a Python script to automate a reconciliation, a Zapier workflow to eliminate a manual handoff, or partnering directly with an engineer to build something more robust.

Responsibilities

• Own all aspects of accounting end-to-end across all entities of the group (USGAAP)
• Lead the close process in coordination with our accounting partner
• Prepare and review consolidated financial statements
• Implement best practices across the fixed asset cycle - capitalization, depreciation, disposals etc.
• Own project accounting for construction-in-progress
• Work with project teams and leadership to ensure information is shared throughout the organization
• Implement best practices across the Procure-to-Pay cycle (eg. vendor management, PO workflows)
• Review and account for complex vendor agreements, including milestone-based arrangements
• Partner with the ops and procurement teams to design and enforce spend controls
• Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors, coordinating all audit requests and managing the year-end audit process end-to-end
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax obligations
• Expand the NetSuite, or other, roll out to the features and modules needed to support the business
• Design and document scalable accounting processes and workflows, with an eye toward the addition of new projects and entities over time
• Partner with the CFO to provide financial insights that support strategic and operational decision-making

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior