<h1>The Role</h1>We are the explorers. We are the builders. We are the Wayfinders.Bedrock is mapping the unseen world beneath our oceans and building the systems to do it at scale. We’re hiring a Head of Finance &amp; Accounting to join our leadership team and build the financial foundation of the company. This is a hands-on builder role for someone who thrives in startup environments and understands the rigor of manufacturing, inventory, and real-world operations.You will be a team of one internally, leading an outsourced accounting team while owning everything from operating model to close. You’ll work side-by-side with the CEO and leadership team to turn complexity into clarity and clarity into decisions.This role is both strategic and deeply executional and is designed to grow into VP and possibly CFO as we scale.<h1>What You’ll Do</h1>This role lives in the details while shaping company-level direction. You won’t just build the system- you’ll use it to help lead the business.<h2>Financial Planning &amp; Operating Model</h2><ul style=""><li>Build and own the company’s financial operating model:<ul style=""><li>Revenue tied to contracts, deployments, and pricing</li><li>Cost structure across engineering, manufacturing, and field ops</li><li>Cash flow and runway visibility</li></ul></li><li>Lead the annual budgeting process across the leadership team:<ul style=""><li>Translate functional plans into financial outcomes</li><li>Push on assumptions and drive alignment</li><li>Ensure the budget reflects how the business actually operates</li></ul></li><li>Run monthly forecasting and scenario analysis:<ul style=""><li>Headcount, production pacing, capital allocation</li><li>Provide clear recommendations—not just outputs</li></ul></li><li>Deliver budget vs. actuals with insight:<ul style=""><li>What changed, why it matters, and what we should do next</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Accounting, Close &amp; Reporting</h2><ul style=""><li>Own the monthly close end-to-end:<ul style=""><li>Review entries across accruals, inventory, COGS, payroll, and revenue</li><li>Ensure reconciliations and supporting schedules are complete</li><li>Continuously improve speed and accuracy of close</li></ul></li><li>Produce financial reporting for leadership and board:<ul style=""><li>P&amp;L, balance sheet, cash flow</li><li>KPI dashboards and performance insights</li></ul></li><li>Maintain audit-ready financials:<ul style=""><li>Clean documentation, organized work papers</li><li>Support investor diligence and external audits</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Inventory, Cost Accounting &amp; CapEx</h2><ul style=""><li>Own inventory and cost accounting across the build lifecycle:<ul style=""><li>Raw materials to WIP to finished systems</li><li>Standard costing and BOM accuracy</li></ul></li><li>Analyze production and cost variances:<ul style=""><li>Identify drivers and partner with operations to resolve them</li></ul></li><li>Own job costing and unit economics:<ul style=""><li>Tie deployments and builds to margin and profitability</li></ul></li><li>Manage CapEx accounting:<ul style=""><li>Track project-level spend vs. budget</li><li>Capitalize assets and maintain fixed asset register</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Systems &amp; Process Building</h2><ul style=""><li>Own and evolve the finance tech stack:<ul style=""><li>Improve current systems (QBO + tools)</li><li>Evaluate and implement next-stage infrastructure</li></ul></li><li>Build scalable processes and controls:<ul style=""><li>Purchasing, approvals, three-way matching</li><li>Inventory tracking and cost discipline</li></ul></li><li>Ensure clean data flow from operations to accounting to reporting</li></ul><h2>Leadership &amp; Cross-Functional Partnership</h2><ul style=""><li>Serve as a core member of the leadership team:<ul style=""><li>Bring a financial lens to company decisions</li><li>Help set priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and allocate resources</li></ul></li><li>Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO:<ul style=""><li>Provide clear, grounded financial perspective</li><li>Support board materials, investor updates, and strategic planning</li></ul></li><li>Lead the outsourced accounting team:<ul style=""><li>Set expectations, review work, and improve output quality</li><li>Build a system that runs smoothly without constant intervention</li></ul></li><li>Be a partner to the broader team:<ul style=""><li>Help non-finance leaders understand budgets, spend, and tradeoffs</li><li>Teach where needed from budgeting to AP processes to financial basics</li></ul></li></ul><h1>Who You Are</h1>You’re a mid-career finance leader who wants a seat at the table and is willing to do the work that comes with it.You’ve operated in startups, worked in real-world (physical) businesses, and know how to build systems that actually hold up.<h2>Experience</h2><ul style=""><li>7-12+ years across FP&amp;A and accounting/controllership</li><li>Experience in a startup or high-growth environment</li><li>Experience in a manufacturing, hardware, or inventory-heavy business</li></ul>You’ve owned:<ul style=""><li>A financial model tied to real operations</li><li>Budgeting and forecasting that drove decisions</li><li>The monthly close and financial reporting</li></ul>You have strong working knowledge of:<ul style=""><li>Inventory and cost accounting (COGS, standard costing, BOMs, variance analysis)</li><li>Job costing or project-based accounting</li><li>CapEx and fixed assets</li></ul>You’ve either:<ul style=""><li>Managed an outsourced accounting team, or</li><li>Have a clear, thoughtful approach to how you would manage one effectively</li></ul><h2>How You Operate</h2><ul style=""><li>Comfortable being a team of one with high ownership</li><li>Able to move between details and strategy seamlessly</li><li>A builder who creates structure and improves systems over time</li><li>A collaborative partner who enjoys working across functions</li><li>Willing and able to teach financial concepts clearly to non-finance teams</li><li>Detail-oriented- you care about getting it right</li><li>You use tools and AI to increase speed, accuracy, and leverage</li></ul><h2>What You Care About</h2><ul style=""><li>You want to help build a company, not just report on it</li><li>You value being in-person, in the room, solving problems together</li><li>You take pride in craft, clarity, and accuracy</li><li>You have some connection to the ocean:<ul style=""><li>Professional, academic, or personal</li><li>You’re excited to be around people who dive, sail, build, and explore offshore</li></ul></li></ul><h2>What Success Looks Like</h2><ul style=""><li>Financials are clean, fast, and trusted</li><li>The operating model is used to run the company</li><li>Leadership has clear visibility into costs, cash, and tradeoffs</li><li>Finance is a core voice in decision-making, not an afterthought</li></ul><h2>Not a Fit If…</h2><ul style=""><li>You want a purely strategic role without hands-on ownership</li><li>You prefer large, structured environments with layers and support teams</li><li>You don’t enjoy getting into inventory, cost accounting, or operational detail</li><li>You’re uncomfortable being a team of one on the leadership team</li><li>You avoid cross-functional work or don’t enjoy teaching others</li><li>You’re looking for remote or low-collaboration environments</li></ul>If you want to help lead and build the financial backbone of a company exploring the ocean, we should talk.

We are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth&rsquo;s oceans on a scale not possible with today&rsquo;s technology. We offer subsea survey services (Hydro, Geo, UXO, etc.) as well as paired cloud &amp; local software to effectively store, process and make sense of your organization's subsea data.

Head of Finance and Accounting

<h1>The Role</h1>We are the explorers. We are the builders. We are the Wayfinders.Bedrock is mapping the unseen world beneath our oceans and building the systems to do it at scale. We’re hiring a Head of Finance &amp; Accounting to join our leadership team and build the financial foundation of the company. This is a hands-on builder role for someone who thrives in startup environments and understands the rigor of manufacturing, inventory, and real-world operations.You will be a team of one internally, leading an outsourced accounting team while owning everything from operating model to close. You’ll work side-by-side with the CEO and leadership team to turn complexity into clarity and clarity into decisions.This role is both strategic and deeply executional and is designed to grow into VP and possibly CFO as we scale.<h1>What You’ll Do</h1>This role lives in the details while shaping company-level direction. You won’t just build the system- you’ll use it to help lead the business.<h2>Financial Planning &amp; Operating Model</h2><ul><li>Build and own the company’s financial operating model:<ul><li>Revenue tied to contracts, deployments, and pricing</li><li>Cost structure across engineering, manufacturing, and field ops</li><li>Cash flow and runway visibility</li></ul></li><li>Lead the annual budgeting process across the leadership team:<ul><li>Translate functional plans into financial outcomes</li><li>Push on assumptions and drive alignment</li><li>Ensure the budget reflects how the business actually operates</li></ul></li><li>Run monthly forecasting and scenario analysis:<ul><li>Headcount, production pacing, capital allocation</li><li>Provide clear recommendations—not just outputs</li></ul></li><li>Deliver budget vs. actuals with insight:<ul><li>What changed, why it matters, and what we should do next</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Accounting, Close &amp; Reporting</h2><ul><li>Own the monthly close end-to-end:<ul><li>Review entries across accruals, inventory, COGS, payroll, and revenue</li><li>Ensure reconciliations and supporting schedules are complete</li><li>Continuously improve speed and accuracy of close</li></ul></li><li>Produce financial reporting for leadership and board:<ul><li>P&amp;L, balance sheet, cash flow</li><li>KPI dashboards and performance insights</li></ul></li><li>Maintain audit-ready financials:<ul><li>Clean documentation, organized work papers</li><li>Support investor diligence and external audits</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Inventory, Cost Accounting &amp; CapEx</h2><ul><li>Own inventory and cost accounting across the build lifecycle:<ul><li>Raw materials to WIP to finished systems</li><li>Standard costing and BOM accuracy</li></ul></li><li>Analyze production and cost variances:<ul><li>Identify drivers and partner with operations to resolve them</li></ul></li><li>Own job costing and unit economics:<ul><li>Tie deployments and builds to margin and profitability</li></ul></li><li>Manage CapEx accounting:<ul><li>Track project-level spend vs. budget</li><li>Capitalize assets and maintain fixed asset register</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Systems &amp; Process Building</h2><ul><li>Own and evolve the finance tech stack:<ul><li>Improve current systems (QBO + tools)</li><li>Evaluate and implement next-stage infrastructure</li></ul></li><li>Build scalable processes and controls:<ul><li>Purchasing, approvals, three-way matching</li><li>Inventory tracking and cost discipline</li></ul></li><li>Ensure clean data flow from operations to accounting to reporting</li></ul><h2>Leadership &amp; Cross-Functional Partnership</h2><ul><li>Serve as a core member of the leadership team:<ul><li>Bring a financial lens to company decisions</li><li>Help set priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and allocate resources</li></ul></li><li>Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO:<ul><li>Provide clear, grounded financial perspective</li><li>Support board materials, investor updates, and strategic planning</li></ul></li><li>Lead the outsourced accounting team:<ul><li>Set expectations, review work, and improve output quality</li><li>Build a system that runs smoothly without constant intervention</li></ul></li><li>Be a partner to the broader team:<ul><li>Help non-finance leaders understand budgets, spend, and tradeoffs</li><li>Teach where needed from budgeting to AP processes to financial basics</li></ul></li></ul><h1>Who You Are</h1>You’re a mid-career finance leader who wants a seat at the table and is willing to do the work that comes with it.You’ve operated in startups, worked in real-world (physical) businesses, and know how to build systems that actually hold up.<h2>Experience</h2><ul><li>7-12+ years across FP&amp;A and accounting/controllership</li><li>Experience in a startup or high-growth environment</li><li>Experience in a manufacturing, hardware, or inventory-heavy business</li></ul>You’ve owned:<ul><li>A financial model tied to real operations</li><li>Budgeting and forecasting that drove decisions</li><li>The monthly close and financial reporting</li></ul>You have strong working knowledge of:<ul><li>Inventory and cost accounting (COGS, standard costing, BOMs, variance analysis)</li><li>Job costing or project-based accounting</li><li>CapEx and fixed assets</li></ul>You’ve either:<ul><li>Managed an outsourced accounting team, or</li><li>Have a clear, thoughtful approach to how you would manage one effectively</li></ul><h2>How You Operate</h2><ul><li>Comfortable being a team of one with high ownership</li><li>Able to move between details and strategy seamlessly</li><li>A builder who creates structure and improves systems over time</li><li>A collaborative partner who enjoys working across functions</li><li>Willing and able to teach financial concepts clearly to non-finance teams</li><li>Detail-oriented- you care about getting it right</li><li>You use tools and AI to increase speed, accuracy, and leverage</li></ul><h2>What You Care About</h2><ul><li>You want to help build a company, not just report on it</li><li>You value being in-person, in the room, solving problems together</li><li>You take pride in craft, clarity, and accuracy</li><li>You have some connection to the ocean:<ul><li>Professional, academic, or personal</li><li>You’re excited to be around people who dive, sail, build, and explore offshore</li></ul></li></ul><h2>What Success Looks Like</h2><ul><li>Financials are clean, fast, and trusted</li><li>The operating model is used to run the company</li><li>Leadership has clear visibility into costs, cash, and tradeoffs</li><li>Finance is a core voice in decision-making, not an afterthought</li></ul><h2>Not a Fit If…</h2><ul><li>You want a purely strategic role without hands-on ownership</li><li>You prefer large, structured environments with layers and support teams</li><li>You don’t enjoy getting into inventory, cost accounting, or operational detail</li><li>You’re uncomfortable being a team of one on the leadership team</li><li>You avoid cross-functional work or don’t enjoy teaching others</li><li>You’re looking for remote or low-collaboration environments</li></ul>If you want to help lead and build the financial backbone of a company exploring the ocean, we should talk.

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