Accounting & Controls Manager

ABOUT OUTLAST Outlast https://www.outlast.earth is building the technology infrastructure for the recycled commodities supply chain. We’re creating a more efficient, transparent, and sustainable market for secondary raw materials. We’re a small, fast-moving team that uses technology and AI to do things the industry hasn’t seen before. If you’re looking for a role at a large company with established playbooks, this isn’t it. If you want to build something from scratch and see your work directly impact the business, keep reading. THE ROLE We’re looking for an Accounting & Controls Manager to own Outlast’s books end-to-end — and grow into our Controller. You’ll run the monthly close, keep the day-to-day transactional engine clean, own inventory accounting for physical metal, manage cash and our credit-facility reporting, and build the control environment a scaling company needs before its first audit, not after. You’ll be the primary point of contact for our external auditors and banks. This is a hands-on role by design. Some days you’re setting an accounting policy, preparing a borrowing base certificate, or scoping an ERP migration; other days you’re posting a journal entry, chasing a vendor bill, or reconciling a bank feed. No task is beneath the role — but the trajectory is up: as the company roughly doubles in size, this seat becomes the Controller seat, and we want to hire the person who can make that climb. You’ll report to our VP of Finance & Business Operations and partner with a Finance & Strategy Manager who owns the forecast, you produce the reconciled actuals everything else is built on. Our stack is deeply integrated: QuickBooks Online, Ramp, and our own platform sync invoices and bills automatically, and AI agents handle a growing share of the transactional work. You’ll supervise and improve that machine, not fight it. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the monthly close. Run the close calendar end-to-end, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, flux review, and deliver reconciled financial statements on a fixed timeline, every month. Investigate and explain key variances. The trial balance ties, or you know exactly why not. - Keep the books clean every day. AP and AR workflows, bill processing, billing and cash application, expense management. Hands-on bookkeeping when it’s needed, you’d rather fix it than file a ticket. - Own inventory accounting. We buy, process, and sell physical metal. Cost per pound, inventory GL integrity, and the reconciliation between our operating platform and the ledger are core to this seat, this is where scrap gets hard, and where you earn your keep. - Manage cash and lender reporting. Reconcile bank accounts monthly, monitor daily cash activity, prepare the weekly borrowing base certificate for our credit facility, and facilitate banking transactions in coordination with the VP of Finance. - Run payroll, benefits, and taxes. Own payroll accounting and related accruals in partnership with HR, keep payroll liability and benefits accounts reconciled, and coordinate tax filings, payments, and exemption compliance across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. - Build the control environment. Develop, implement, and enforce accounting policies, approval thresholds, and segregation of duties sized for a startup, with workpapers clean enough to hand an auditor or a diligence team without a scramble. You’re the primary contact for external auditors and banks. - Run the systems. QuickBooks Online, Ramp, bill-pay, and the integrations that tie them to our platform. You keep the sync honest today and lead the ERP evaluation and migration when we outgrow it. - Use technology to work smarter. Our AI agent stack already automates a growing share of AP, AR, and close tasks. You’ll supervise its output, extend what it covers, and spend your time on judgment, not data entry. WHAT YOU WON’T DO - Build the forecast. Our Finance & Strategy Manager owns the model and forecast. You own the actuals they’re built on…