VP, Accounting and Financial Control

Nscale; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale, a GPU cloud platform for AI, seeks a Vice President, Accounting & Financial Control to lead financial reporting, governance, and balance sheet integrity across all legal entities. You will ensure accuracy, align with Group policies, and collaborate with FP&A and External Reporting to drive transparent, robust financial outputs.

In this senior role, you will direct a specialist corporate accounting group, manage complex areas such as debt, acquisitions, intercompany activities, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance is required.
• Professional qualification (CPA/CA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent) is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end accounting for all legal entities across the Group.
• Review and challenge outputs for completeness and accuracy.
• Drive consistency in accounting treatments and financial reporting.
• Partner with FP&A and Finance Business Partners to explain results.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Leadership

US GAAP/IFRS knowledge

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA/CA/ACA/ACCA or equivalent

Tools

ERP software

Consolidation software

Job description

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. At Nscale, our finance team plays a critical role in ensuring financial stability, strategic growth, and compliance. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About The Role

The Vice President, Accounting & Financial Control is a senior finance leader responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of accounting and financial reporting across all legal entities within the Group. Working closely with the VP Accounting Operations, VP Accounting Policy, and VP External Reporting, this role provides financial oversight over the Group's legal entities, ensuring that accounting outputs are accurate, well-understood, and aligned with Group policies and reporting requirements. This position serves as a critical bridge between accounting, FP&A, and Finance Business Partners, providing insightful analysis of financial performance and balance sheet positions while driving consistency, transparency, and strong financial governance across the organization.

What You'll be Doing

Entity Accounting Oversight

• Own the end-to-end accounting oversight for all legal entities across the Group.
• Review and challenge accounting outputs produced by the Accounting Operations team to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with Group accounting policies.
• Ensure financial statements accurately reflect the underlying business activities and transactions of each legal entity.
• Drive consistency in accounting treatments and financial reporting across the Group.
• Supervise a Specialist Corporate Accounting Group responsible for complex areas such as debt, acquisitions and dispositions, intercompany transactions, and corporate journal processing.

Financial Review & Analysis

• Perform detailed reviews of monthly, quarterly, and annual Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss statements at the legal entity level.
• Analyse financial results, identify unusual trends, unexplained movements, or potential accounting issues, and ensure timely resolution.
• Validate the integrity of balance sheet reconciliations and assess the quality of reported financial information.
• Ensure financial results are supported by robust analytical review prior to Group reporting.

Business Partnership

• Partner closely with FP&A to explain actual financial performance, accounting impacts, and key drivers of results.
• Collaborate with Finance Business Partners to ensure accounting outcomes appropriately reflect commercial activities and operational decisions.
• Support business initiatives by providing accounting insight into complex transactions and organizational changes.
• Act as the primary accounting advisor for legal entity financial performance.

Governance & Controls

• Maintain strong financial governance over legal entity accounting.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and financial governance standards.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen accounting processes and improve financial transparency.
• Support internal and external audit activities relating to entity accounting.

Cross-functional Leadership

• Work collaboratively with the VP Accounting Operations to ensure high-quality accounting execution, the VP Accounting Policy on technical accounting matters and implementation of new accounting standards, and the VP External Reporting to support statutory and Group reporting requirements.
• Drive alignment across the broader Accounting & Reporting function.
• Lead initiatives to improve reporting quality, consistency, and efficiency.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships across Finance and the wider business.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and financial excellence.
• Develop and mentor members of the Accounting & Reporting team.
• Champion best practices in financial review, governance, and analytical accounting.

About You

• Deep understanding of financial accounting, consolidations, and legal entity reporting.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to identify accounting risks and financial trends.
• Excellent understanding of Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss management.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to translate accounting outcomes into business insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• High attention to detail with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience operating within a fast-paced, international environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing finance teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• CPA, CA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Extensive post-qualification experience in financial accounting and reporting within a complex multinational organization.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS, and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience partnering with FP&A and senior business stakeholders.

What We Can Offer You

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months.
• Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed.
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy, always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.

Equal Opportunities Statement

At Nscale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know. For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.