Forward-Deployed Finance Automation Engineer

rillet; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Meaningful equity

Benefits that support you

Job summary

rillet is hiring a Forward-Deployed Finance Engineer to partner with top finance teams, embedding with prime customers to automate close processes end-to-end. You will design and ship agents that perform real accounting work, with audit-ready controls and clear impact metrics.

You will help translate customer workflows into product enhancements, write concise product briefs, and collaborate with engineering to deliver features from prototype to production.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of accounting experience with month-end close ownership.
• Strong understanding of GAAP, including revenue recognition and controls.

Responsibilities

• Automate close processes at top customers and ensure accuracy and auditability.
• Embed with 3–5 strategic customers and map close end-to-end: bank coding, AP, revenue, accruals, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Identify high-leverage manual tasks and automate them with durable solutions.
• Build and deploy accounting agents with controls, review steps, and audit trails.
• Quantify impact in days-to-close, hours saved, and error rates.
• Turn customer work into product by writing product briefs and prototyping features to production with engineering support.
• Collaborate with product domain teams and set best practices for agentic accounting.
• Serve as voice of the controller to define standards and when human review is needed.

Skills

10+ years accounting

GAAP knowledge

Job description

rillet is hiring a Forward-Deployed Finance Engineer to partner with top finance teams, embedding with prime customers to automate close processes end-to-end. You will design and ship agents that perform real accounting work, with audit-ready controls and clear impact metrics.

You will help translate customer workflows into product enhancements, write concise product briefs, and collaborate with engineering to deliver features from prototype to production.