Director, Operations Accounting Enablement

Weights & Biases Weights & Biases · Data AI · Dallas, TX · Finance

This role is for a Director of Operations Accounting Enablement focused on fixed assets and inventory management. It involves owning the strategy, leadership, and scaling of these accounting functions, strengthening financial controls, ensuring audit readiness, and enabling operational scalability. The role requires technical accounting expertise, process and systems enablement, and cross-functional leadership, with experience in SOX-compliant controls, ERP implementations, and supporting hardware-intensive operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. The Director of Accounting – Fixed Assets & Inventory Management Enablement will own the strategy, leadership, and scaling of the Company’s fixed asset and inventory accounting functions.
  2. The Director will serve as a key partner to Operations, hookup Supply Chain, FP&A, IT, and external auditors, driving the design and implementation of best-in-class accounting processes, systems, and governance frameworks.
  3. Progressive accounting experience including senior leadership roles overseeing fixed assets and/or inventory accounting in high-value or complex environments.
  4. Deep ownership of inventory accounting with strong knowledge of inventory management systems and relevant US GAAP.
  5. Proven design and operation of SOX-compliant controls over fixed assets and inventory, with a track record of clean audits and year-over-year reduction in audit findings.

Skills

Required

  • Fixed asset accounting
  • Inventory accounting
  • US GAAP
  • SOX compliance
  • ERP implementation
  • Financial controls
  • Audit readiness
  • Cross-functional leadership

Nice to have

  • CPA
  • Public accounting background

What the JD emphasized

  • SOX-compliant controls
  • clean audits
  • audit findings
  • ERP implementations