Controller: Build the Financial Backbone for Drone Startup

Corps Team; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Corps Team is seeking an experienced Controller to join onsite in Boulder, bringing formal finance discipline to a newly acquired drone-manufacturing company. You will baseline the books, stand up budgeting and cost-tracking, and prepare the business for audit.

You will work with the founder and operations lead to implement ERP processes (NetSuite preferred), establish reporting cadence, and build controls across budgets, spend, and capital investments during stand‑up and scale-up.

Qualifications

• Strong controller-level or senior finance experience in a regulated environment.
• Experience building finance structure from a low baseline: budgets, control accounts, cost tracking, and reporting.
• Familiarity with contract- and resource-level cost tracking and government-facing reporting.
• ERP/financial systems experience; NetSuite a plus.

Responsibilities

• Baseline the books and establish a clean financial baseline.
• Stand up structure: budgets, cost tracking, and control accounts.
• Track invested capital against industrial plan and use of funds.
• Establish regular financial reporting cadence for leadership.
• Coordinate with external auditors and conversion efforts.
• Help implement ERP systems and cost visibility across portfolios.

Skills

Controller experience

Senior finance

ERP implementation

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Corps Team is seeking an experienced Controller to join onsite in Boulder, bringing formal finance discipline to a newly acquired drone-manufacturing company. You will baseline the books, stand up budgeting and cost-tracking, and prepare the business for audit.

You will work with the founder and operations lead to implement ERP processes (NetSuite preferred), establish reporting cadence, and build controls across budgets, spend, and capital investments during stand‑up and scale-up.