Founded by global technology pioneer Larry Ellison and esteemed physician and author Dr. David Agus, Sensei Ag is a market-changing AgTech company on a journey to improve human nutrition. Our greenhouse farms align technology with the environment to protect and preserve natural resources while optimizing how we grow food. Merging agriculture and innovation to achieve sustainable farming practices allows us to grow high-quality, delicious produce year-round.
We are seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented Controller with a strong Cost Accounting background to strengthen the company’s financial rigor, processes, controls, reporting, and analysis to support business decision-making and operational excellence. This position reports to the SVP, Accounting & Finance and is fully remote. Prior experience in Agriculture, Biotech, Manufacturing, or another production/inventory-intensive environment is a strong plus.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted financial advisor to the SVP, Accounting & Finance.
- Lead the month-end and year-end close and prepare and review monthly financial statements, management reporting, and financial analysis.
- Ensure accounting practices and financial reporting comply with U.S. GAAP.
- Oversee general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, inventory, accruals, and reconciliations.
- Establish and maintain appropriate accounting policies, procedures, and documentation.
- Support annual audits, tax filings, and other external financial reporting requirements.
- Lead and improve cost accounting processes, including product costing, inventory valuation, labor and overhead allocation, and COGS.
- Analyze production costs, margins, variances, and operational performance and provide actionable insights to management.
- Partner with operations to improve cost visibility, financial accountability, and operational performance.
- Develop, document, and implement strong internal controls and approval processes.
- Serve as the key finance owner of NetSuite, including evaluating configuration, reporting, workflows, controls, and overall utilization.
- Evaluate and improve financial systems, processes, and workflows, including opportunities for automation and integration.
- Partner with IT and other departments to ensure financial systems effectively support operational and reporting needs.
- Lead, develop, and support the accounting team.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and financial planning.
Skills and Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Strong technical accounting foundation and knowledge of GAAP. CPA required.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including Controller or senior accounting leadership experience.
- Strong NetSuite experience.
- Strong cost accounting experience.
- Demonstrated experience developing and strengthening internal controls.
- Proven ability to streamline processes and improve financial systems.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
- Hands-on, proactive approach with the ability to work at both the detailed accounting level and strategically across the organization.
Sensei Ag is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fair and equitable compensation for all employees. We thoughtfully consider a wide range of factors when determining individual compensation. The expected annual pay range for this role is between $170,000 - $195,000.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA certification
- 10+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience
- Controller or senior accounting leadership experience
- Strong technical accounting foundation and knowledge of GAAP
- Strong NetSuite experience
- Strong cost accounting experience
- Experience developing and strengthening internal controls
- Experience streamlining processes and improving financial systems
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills
- Prior experience in agriculture, biotech, manufacturing, or another production/inventory-intensive environment
What We Do
We are a market-changing AgTech company on a mission to solve global gaps and inconsistencies in nutrition, food safety and security through the transformative power of data. Joined together on a mission to improve health and wellness, Oracle Co-founder Larry Ellison and acclaimed physician and scientist Dr. David Agus formed Sensei Holdings, Inc., including Sensei Farms and Sensei Retreats, on the Hawaiian island of Lāna’i. Sensei Holdings, Inc. has bifurcated its agriculture and leisure travel units. The farms division now operates as Sensei Ag. Guided by the incomparable capabilities of our founders, Sensei Ag develops and deploys cutting-edge agricultural technologies to build a better, more stable food supply that is capable of feeding our entire world nutritionally-relevant, delicious, affordable meals. We follow three operational pillars to finally making closed environment agriculture affordable. First, we use modular components in our production processes to quickly and efficiently deploy the highest performing technologies. Second, we implement each of our technologies in a form factor agnostic manner, growing plants in the environment best suited for each crop. Third, through a combination of partnership, collaboration and acquisition, we significantly reduce the time needed to build large-scale indoor farms, ensuring the relevance and freshness of all of our technologies. We are currently piloting our growing techniques at Sensei Farms Lāna’i, which has the capacity to produce over a million pounds of food per year, all in less than an acre of space and with 90% less water than traditional farming. We will take the learnings of our pilot farm on Lāna’i across the globe and bring hyper-local, nutrient-rich, affordable food to developed and emerging economies. Sensei Ag is the present and future of farming that will support human health and wellness for decades. Driven by data, grounded in science, focused on wellbeing.
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