Head of Finance & Strategy — Robotics Scale-Up

Contoro Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Contoro Robotics, a Series B robotics startup in Austin, TX, seeks a highly hands-on Director of Finance to build and lead the finance function through its next growth phase. You will partner with the CEO on strategy, capital planning, and governance while scaling systems and processes to support rapid expansion.

You will own budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, develop asset economics, and drive ROI-focused decisions across commercial, manufacturing, engineering, and operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience with meaningful in-house operating experience.
• Experience operating in a startup, scale-up, or similarly fast-moving, resource-constrained environment.
• Strong strategic finance, FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and U.S. GAAP capabilities.
• Experience in a capital-intensive business where asset economics, fixed assets, inventory, capital deployment, and ROI matter.
• Demonstrated ability to build financial processes, systems, models, or capabilities from scratch.
• Strong problem-solving ability when the data, process, or answer does not already exist.
• Strong technology orientation and willingness to use automation, AI, and modern finance systems to improve productivity.
• Comfortable moving between executive-level discussions and transaction-level detail, with a resourceful, low-ego operating style.

Responsibilities

• Own budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and company-wide financial modeling.
• Build clear customer, deployment, site, and asset economics, including robot cost, margins, utilization, capital requirements, and ROI.
• Partner across Commercial, Manufacturing, Engineering, Deployment, and Operations to connect operating decisions to financial outcomes.
• Bring an ROI-oriented approach to spending, capital allocation, pricing, hiring, and other major business decisions.
• Develop Contoro’s capital strategy across equity, venture debt, asset and equipment financing, working-capital facilities, and other financing alternatives.
• Own cash, runway, treasury, and working-capital planning, proactively identifying ways to improve liquidity and capital efficiency.
• Identify and pursue grants, tax credits, rebates, government incentives, and other non-dilutive funding opportunities, engaging external experts and advisors where appropriate.
• Support fundraising and financial diligence, including models, forecasts, data-room materials, Board and investor reporting, and direct engagement with investors, lenders, auditors, and advisors.
• Own accurate, timely GAAP-compliant financial reporting and monthly, quarterly, and annual close.
• Ensure appropriate accounting treatment across revenue recognition, leases, financing, fixed assets, inventory, capitalization, depreciation, accruals, stock compensation, and other material areas.
• Establish practical policies, documentation, and internal controls that keep Contoro audit-ready without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Manage auditors, tax advisors, and technical accounting specialists while maintaining enough accounting depth to personally step into complex issues when needed.
• Own and improve the finance technology stack across accounting, banking, expense management, ERP, reporting, and related systems, using automation and AI wherever practical.
• Build reliable processes and data across finance and operations, determining what should be automated, outsourced, improved, or brought in-house.
• Oversee internal coordination of corporate operations, including legal matters, contracts, governance, insurance, payroll, benefits, and core People/HR administration, working with external specialists where appropriate.
• Operate initially as a hands-on leader within a lean structure, then build the finance organization across Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, Strategic Finance, and Corporate Operations as the business scales.

Skills

Strategic Finance

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial Modeling

U.S. GAAP

Education

CPA or equivalent

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Contoro Robotics, a Series B robotics startup in Austin, TX, seeks a highly hands-on Director of Finance to build and lead the finance function through its next growth phase. You will partner with the CEO on strategy, capital planning, and governance while scaling systems and processes to support rapid expansion.

You will own budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, develop asset economics, and drive ROI-focused decisions across commercial, manufacturing, engineering, and operations.