Director of Accounting Operations, Tenstorrent
$100-500k
OTE
Salary shown includes variable compensation targets
Next-generation computing company building computers for AI
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Next-generation computing company building computers for AI
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$100-500k
OTE
Salary shown includes variable compensation targets
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring unique solutions to the problems facing AI and machine learning.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced accounting operations leader who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and brings strong technical accounting judgment, operational discipline, and a builder’s mindset
- Equally comfortable solving detailed accounting issues and designing scalable processes, systems, and controls, with a strong foundation in US GAAP, close, reconciliations, accruals, AP, AR, payroll accounting, fixed assets, internal controls, and audit support
- Able to tell what good looks like in an accounting function, have experience improving close timelines and control discipline, and are a strong people leader who communicates clearly and partners effectively across Finance and business operations
- Bringing 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting operations, controllership, or corporate accounting, including leadership in high-growth or multinational environments, ERP transformation experience, and strong knowledge of operational accounting processes; CPA and experience in complex product-based industries are strongly preferred
What the job involves
- Tenstorrent is seeking a Director of Accounting Operations to lead and scale the company’s core accounting operations function
- This leader will build a disciplined, accurate, audit-ready, and scalable organization that can support rapid growth, global expansion, increasing transaction complexity, and future public-company requirements
- In this role, you will oversee day-to-day accounting operations across AP, AR, payroll accounting, fixed assets, accruals, reconciliations, and close operations while partnering across global finance functions
- Lead and scale accounting operations across AP, AR, payroll accounting, fixed assets, accruals, reconciliations, and close operations in a way that supports accuracy, discipline, and growth
- Own and improve the monthly and quarterly close process, driving stronger accountability, documentation, and cycle-time improvements
- Strengthen internal controls, documentation, segregation of duties, and system-based controls while partnering with Finance Systems and IT to improve ERP processes, automation, integrations, and reporting
- Build and develop a high-performing accounting operations organization, support global accounting complexity across entities and jurisdictions, and manage key relationships with auditors, consultants, and outsourced partners
- What You Will Learn:
- How to build accounting processes that scale from startup-stage operations to enterprise-grade infrastructure
- How global entity operations, inter-company processes, foreign currency activity, statutory reporting support, and international accounting complexity come together in practice
- How accounting operations connect directly to broader business execution in a product-based technology company, including procurement, supply chain, leases, capital equipment, payroll, equity, R&D, and commercial operations
- How to lead finance transformation, develop a high-performing team and operating model, and help shape the systems, controls, and processes needed for the company’s next stage of growth
Application process
- We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting
Our take
Tenstorrent is a US- and Canada-based semiconductor startup specializing in processors for AI workloads. Rather than building gneral-purpose CPUs or GPus, the company develops custom chips and sofrware optimized for running moder AI models. As demand for AI accelerates, and as a global chip shortage reshapes the semiconductor industry, these trends have become strong tailwinds for Tenstorrent.
The company’s unique approach is to build for this future software, which it believes will be written at a higher level. Combining this with conditional computing, Tenstorrent supports a scalable distributed network approach that is analogous to a human brain.
While the market for specialized AI hardware is destined to be gigantic, the company has to compete with a plethora of hopeful startups (as well as major tech companies like NVIDIA and Qualcomm). That said, Tenstorrent boasts an excellent trajectory so far, with its latest moves including unveiling its high-end Wormhole AI processors, and a partnership with LG which will see the development of chips for "Affectionate Intelligence".
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2024
$693m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$300m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company HQ
Flemingdon Park, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Jim Keller
(CEO)Previously Senior VP of Silicon Engineering at Intel Corporation, VP of Autopilot Hardware Engineering at Tesla, Corporate VP and Chief Architect at AMD, and VP of Engineering at Apple.
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