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Deputy Controller | Accounting

Aera · Mountain View, CA, USA · Hybrid

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About Aera

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company that makes business agility happen. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment. Backed by NEA.

About the role

The Deputy Controller is a finance leader responsible for supporting all aspects of the company's accounting, financial reporting, and compliance functions, reporting to the VP of Finance (who reports to the CEO). This role ensures the integrity and accuracy of financial information, supports strategic decision-making, and drives the development of scalable processes and systems to support growth.

What they're looking for

  • Strong technical accounting experience, including meaningful revenue recognition experience within enterprise software, SaaS, consumption-based revenue, and professional services, as well as stock-based comp
  • 7+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience
  • Proven experience leading accounting in a complex, multinational organization
  • Strong background in financial reporting, compliance, internal controls, and audit
  • Demonstrated success in driving systems implementation and process improvements
  • Big 4 experience and CPA strongly preferred
More about this role

Aera Technology is a pioneer in the growing category of Decision Intelligence Platforms and a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for 2026 – the technology to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making processes with AI and machine learning. Through our AI decision automation platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, we are helping the best-known brands in the world make smarter, faster decisions.

Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable.

The Deputy Controller is a finance leader responsible for supporting all aspects of the company's accounting, financial reporting, and compliance functions, reporting to the VP of Finance (who reports to the CEO). This role ensures the integrity and accuracy of financial information, supports strategic decision-making, and drives the development of scalable processes and systems to support growth. The...

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