Controller

About the role

At Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation ("Arbor Energy"), we're creating technology to power our lives while protecting the planet that sustains them. Our advanced power systems deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions-modular, fuel-flexible, and engineered for the realities of today's energy demand. At the core is a supercritical CO₂ turbine with integrated carbon capture, designed to bring carbon-neutral power online quickly at meaningful scale. Our team includes aerospace engineers, combustion experts, and systems thinkers with a shared goal: to build technology worthy of the world we want to live in. While many of us began our journeys looking to the stars, we're applying that expertise here at home to deliver dependable, emission-free baseload power and a future of lasting abundance. If you share our values and are drawn to rigorous work with lasting impact, we'd love to learn more about you. Come build what the future will run on. Steward our planet : We build for tomorrow, ensuring every bolt we tighten and every hand we lend leaves our environment stronger than we found it. Lead with Love : We champion the success of our people, partners, and planet, nurturing excellence through camaraderie and rigor. Explore the Uncharted : We embrace the unknown with curiosity, using courage and discipline to transform uncertainty into opportunity. Role Overview We are seeking a Controller who will own Arbor's core accounting operations and build scalable financial infrastructure as the company grows. You'll manage outsourced accounting operations, lead ERP implementation, establish manufacturing cost accounting, and build grant compliance capabilities - all while ensuring accurate, timely, audit-ready financials. This role requires strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and a bias toward building scalable systems and processes. You'll partner closely with the Director of Finance (who owns forward-looking FP&A and modeling) to ensure historical actuals are accurate and provide the foundation for strategic planning. The Controller is backward-looking and compliance-focused, answering the question: "Are the books right?" You'll ensure Arbor has clean books, compliant processes, and scalable accounting infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Accounting Operations & Team Management
• Manage outsourced accounting team (payroll, AP, month-end close) and serve as single point of accountability for accounting quality, timeliness, and deliverables
• Determine timing and approach for bringing accounting in-house as the company scales
• Eventually hire and build in-house accounting team (first hire likely Senior Accountant to manage day-to-day outsourced operations)
• Conduct quarterly performance reviews of outsourced accounting team
• Financial Close & Reporting
• Own month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process and calendar, ensuring timely, accurate financial statements in accordance with US GAAP
• Manage general ledger and chart of accounts structure and integrity
• Oversee consolidated financial reporting across entities (if applicable)
• Produce board-ready historical financial packages (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement)
• Provide accurate, timely historical actuals to support the Director of Finance's forecasting and planning
• ERP Implementation (CRITICAL PRIORITY)
• Lead selection and implementation of true ERP system within the year to replace QuickBooks Online
• Define requirements based on Arbor's unique needs: heavy AP volume and vendor management, multi-year contract tracking ("contracts that will deliver in YEARS from now"), future AR capability (growing in 2027), manufacturing cost accounting, and grant compliance and reporting
• Ensure ERP integrates with planning tools for seamless data flow to support the Director of Finance's FP&A work
• Build scalable processes and documentation
• Establish internal controls and approval workflows in new system
• Grants Management & Compliance (GROWING CAPABILITY)
• Develop processes for managing state and federal grants as Arbor scales government funding
• Ensure grant reporting meets appropriate standards and compliance requirements
• Understand cost accounting requirements for government contracts
• Build systems to track allowable vs. non-allowable costs
• Coordinate with external auditors on grant audits
• Stay current on evolving grant compliance requirements
• Manufacturing Cost Accounting
• Design and implement cost accounting system for manufacturing (job costing, process costing, or hybrid approach)
• Establish inventory accounting for raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods tracking and valuation
• Establish and maintain standard costs for manufactured components
• Track manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead) and produce variance reports for operations review
• Ensure accurate cost of goods sold calculation as production scales
• Implement internal controls over production costs, inventory,

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