We’re hiring a Financial Controller to build the backbone of our financial operations across Brazil and the US, ensuring rigor, transparency, and scalability across our business. This role will lead the design, implementation, and oversight of accounting, tax, and internal controls, ensuring Terradot’s financial reporting meets the highest standards of accuracy, transparency, and compliance. You’ll work closely with external stakeholders and with cross-functional teams to optimize financial processes, manage risk, and prepare the company for future audits and financing with international financial institutions. This is a foundational position for Terradot’s Finance organization and an opportunity to help shape the systems, controls, and reporting frameworks that will enable the company to scale. If you are a finance professional who combines technical mastery with a builder’s mindset, and who thrives on transforming complexity into clarity, this is your opportunity.
Role Responsibilities:
Accounting and tax. Oversee and manage accounting, tax, and reporting activities across Brazil and the US, ensuring compliance with IFRS and US GAAP standards. Effectively manage external BPO firm.
Closing process. Lead monthly and annual close processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness.
Financial reporting. Build audit-ready documentation and maintain a culture of transparency, accountability, and precision. Support investor reporting and due diligence processes. Partner with FP&A to integrate financial reporting with forecasting and performance tracking.
Internal Controls and Risk Management. Design, implement, and maintain financial internal controls that support scalability and mitigate risks.
ERP. Lead the implementation of the company’s ERP and financial tools, ensuring automation and data consistency.
Processes. Identify process bottlenecks and lead efficiency initiatives that reduce manual work and improve accuracy across finance workflows.
Background and Requirements:
5-10 years of experience in accounting, auditing, or controlling, with minimum 4 years at a Big Four firm
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field; CPA or equivalent certification preferred
Deep understanding of Brazilian accounting standards, IFRS, and consolidation across multi-entity structures
Experience working with external auditors and tax advisors to ensure full compliance
Proven experience building or upgrading accounting and tax processes in cross-border companies
Exposure to ERP implementation or systems integration projects
Nice to Haves:
Startup or operating environment experience
Personal Attributes:
Analytical & Detail-Oriented. You combine technical depth with an obsession for accuracy and structure.
Integrity & Ownership. You take responsibility for numbers, controls, and compliance, and build trust across teams and investors.
Calm Under Pressure. You maintain composure and clarity in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Collaborative Partner. You work fluidly with finance, legal, and operations, communicating complexity in clear, actionable language.
Scrappy & Pragmatic. You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth, and sometimes ambiguous environments.
Mission-Driven. You’re motivated by Terradot’s goal to unlock gigaton-scale carbon removal through science and technology
Joining Terradot as Financial Controller means building financial systems that support a company operating at the frontier of climate, science, and finance, and shaping how scalable, high-integrity carbon removal becomes a reality. If you are as excited as we are about this, we’d love to hear from you!
About Terradot:
Our mission is to stabilize Earth’s climate by transforming nature’s most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing a global initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.
Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world’s leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that qualified people from historically marginalized groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.
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What We Do
Over millions of years, silicate rock weathering has regulated Earth’s climate. By crushing silicate rocks and spreading them on agricultural soils - an approach called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) - we can accelerate Earth’s natural process into a solution capable of addressing the urgency of climate change.
Existing agricultural and silicate rock sites - namely 5,000+ global silicate rock quarries surrounded by agricultural land - have the potential to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 with enhanced rock weathering. Despite this potential, ERW hasn’t scaled given the extraordinary scientific, technological, and operational challenges involved. Terradot, founded out of the Stanford ecosystem, is addressing these challenges by advancing the science, building the technology, and assembling the coalition needed to make this potential a reality.
We’ve started in Brazil – one of the world’s most optimal locations for ERW thanks to its tropical soils, strength in agriculture, and clean electricity grid. There, we are building the most ambitious ERW hub to date. This hub will drive the necessary breakthroughs in ERW science, ensuring every tonne of carbon dioxide removed is measured and tracked with certainty.
These insights will power digital tools for the optimization and verification of carbon removal projects, enabling the replicability of these hubs globally If successful, this approach will uniquely and rapidly catalyze global-scale carbon removal, enabling the transformation of [300] such quarries in Brazil and [5,000+] global quarries into carbon removal hubs.
Terradot has assembled a growing team of leading scientists and engineers with decades of published research (over 100,000 citations on ERW) and hands-on expertise in related fields, providing unmatched experience to drive advancements in ERW.
