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Assistant Controller is a strategic leader responsible for the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of ŌURA's US financial reporting. This role manages the end-to-end month-end close and general accounting functions, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and building the foundation for public-company standards.
Reporting to the Controller, you will drive operational excellence by bridging the gap between transactional accuracy and executive-level financial insights. You will exhibit strong accounting judgment in day-to-day operations while partnering with technical experts to operationalize complex guidance.
Core Responsibilities- Lead Controllership & Close: Own the end-to-end US month-end close, managing governance, cross-functional coordination, and reporting to executive leadership.
- Exhibit Accounting Judgment: Apply rigorous standards to accrual methodologies and estimates; review high-risk journal entries to ensure consistency across the organization.
- Oversee Financial Integrity: Manage balance sheet reconciliations, FX translation, and intercompany eliminations to ensure audit-ready results and actionable variance analysis.
- Modernize Operations: Execute the accounting transformation roadmap, designing scalable workflows and driving automation to reduce manual effort and close cycle times.
- Manage Audit & SOX Readiness: Serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors, leading readiness efforts and strengthening the control environment.
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Technical Accounting to interpret and implement policies, and with FP&A to ensure accuracy in budgeting and forecasting.
- Develop Talent: Mentor and scale a high-performing accounting team, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Requirements We would love to consider you for this role if you have:
- 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership within general accounting / controllership
- Deep expertise in US GAAP, close processes, and financial reporting
- Strong experience owning or leading month-end close in a complex, high-growth, public environment
- Experience with audit management and SOX readiness in a public-company environment
- Ability to create the narrative around monthly financial results and provide meaningful insights to the business
- Proven ability to make and defend accounting judgments and estimates
- Experience leading and developing accounting teams
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
- Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite, Oracle, or similar)
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- CPA required
- Experience in high-growth tech, hardware, or consumer products companies
Preferred qualifications:- Experience implementing or optimizing close tools (e.g., FloQast)
- Exposure to international accounting (FX, intercompany, consolidations)
- Background in Big 4 accounting firms
Benefits At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
- Region 1 $170,000 - $200,000
- Region 2 $154,700 - $182,000
- Region 3 $139,400 - $164,000
A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).
