Corporate Controller

Cambium Accounting Leadership Role

Cambium is a global company building the advanced materials base for reindustrialization from AI-driven molecular design to agile domestic manufacturing. Defense, aerospace, and other high-performance applications demand materials that are stronger, lighter, and more resilient, delivered at unprecedented speed and scale. Our team of world-class scientists and engineers was assembled specifically to take on those challenges. Whether enabling hypersonic flight or protecting critical systems, our solutions solve mission-critical problems and push the limits of what's possible. Come join us and revolutionize advanced materials for defense, aerospace, and beyond.

This is a blank sheet of paper. Cambium is building its accounting organization, and this is the leadership hire into it.

Today, Cambium's general ledger is maintained and its financial statements are prepared by an outside CPA firm that provides ongoing outsourced accounting and finance services to the Company. That firm is a capable and important partner, and will remain one you will work closely and collaboratively with them, and over time, in a planned and thoughtful manner, you will build the internal team. You will help bring attention to rigor. Establishing a disciplined close calendar and a documented control environment are points of emphasis from day one. The Company moved from a modified cash basis to U.S. GAAP in 2026, with the conversion effective beginning with the 2025 balance sheet, and is currently engaging an independent audit firm for its first-ever audit. Revenues today come from government contracts subject to DCAA oversight, with commercial opportunities expected to grow rapidly and SHD Composite Materials Ltd the mature UK composites manufacturer Cambium acquired in December 2025, with subsidiaries in Slovenia and the United States serving commercial customers across aerospace, defense, motorsports, and other high-performance markets. You will need to be fluent in both worlds: government contract accounting, and commercial contracts at scale. SHD operates as a standalone operating company with its own finance and accounting team, which manages its local statutory audit and filing obligations; you will oversee the consolidation of its results into Cambium's U.S. GAAP financials. Acquiring and consolidating additional operating companies on the SHD model is a core part of our growth plan, so the consolidation and integration architecture you build now is the one the next several deals will run through.

Reporting to the CFO, you will build the team, establish the close and the control environment and carry a venture-backed advanced materials company through its first audit and toward the reporting discipline of a more mature operating company. You will own the numbers one set of books, closed on a calendar, that the executive team, the board, our investors, our auditors, and our customers can all rely on.

This is a build role, not a maintain role. There is no close checklist to inherit, no policy manual to update, no reconciliation binder to refresh. The right person has done the unglamorous version of this work written the memo, designed the control, run the cutover, sat through the first audit and wants to do it again with more scope. The work will be hands-on initially and should scale to supervisory rapidly as the team comes together, and you should want both halves of that.

The position can be based at either of Cambium's primary US sites El Segundo, CA or Mooresville, NC or fully remote, with periodic travel to El Segundo, Mooresville, our other US locations, and Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Build the accounting organization
• Lead the accounting voice in ERP selection and implementation
• Assess and design the control environment
• Carry the audit, tax, and compliance load
• Own treasury operations and the transactional engine

Key Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting and time as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Director in an operating company, ideally including prior ownership of a multi-entity international close.
• CPA required. Active license strongly preferred.
• Public company and SOX experience strongly desired whether as an auditor of public company clients, in a public company accounting or SEC reporting role, or having taken a private company through IPO readiness. Direct experience designing, documenting, and testing SOX controls is a significant advantage.
• Demonstrated experience building an accounting function rather than inheriting one standing up a close, hiring the team, writing the policies, and transitioning work in-house from an outsourced provider. Tell us what did not exist before you got there.
• Experience with the selection and implementation of an ERP is strongly desired participating in the evaluation, owning accounting design decisions, working with the vendor and integrator, and living through the cutover. We want someone who has seen what goes wrong.
• Multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation experience is required foreign currency translation, remeasurement, intercompany eliminations, and CTA, in an environment with real international operations rather than a single foreign subsidiary.
• M&A integration experience is highly desired. Acquiring operating companies is central to our growth plan, so we place real weight on candidates who have done purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, and the post-close work of bringing an acquired business onto a common close calendar, account structure, and reporting standard.
• Demonstrated experience assessing a light or informal control environment and designing a new one, including segregation of duties in a small team where it is genuinely hard.
• Comfort owning the auditor relationship directly. First-year audit experience is welcome but not required.
• Technical accounting strength in the areas that matter here: revenue recognition (ASC 606), business combinations (ASC 805), leases (ASC 842), and stock compensation (ASC 718) and the ability to write the memo yourself.
• Venture-backed or high-growth company experience; comfort with board-level and investor-level scrutiny of the accounting.
• Advanced Excel we are a Microsoft 365 shop. Hands-on ERP experience (NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, Epicor, or similar); we run Intuit Enterprise Suite, Ramp, ADP, and TriNet today. Power BI and SQL welcome.
• Experience with consolidation, close management, and planning tools Hyperion, FloQast, Adaptive, BlackLine, or similar is highly desirable.
• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, industrial, or advanced materials is preferred. Depth in standard costing and manufacturing cost accounting is welcome but not required.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance. Master's in accounting or taxation welcome, not required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. You can explain a technical position to an auditor, a control requirement to an engineer, and a variance to the board and you write clearly enough that your memos hold up when you are not in the room.
• Willingness to be hands-on in the ledger while also building the function, and the judgment to know which one the week actually calls for.
• Comfort with ambiguity, limited existing process, and shifting priorities; low ego, high ownership, and a strong bias toward building. Absolute integrity this seat does not bend.
• Willingness to travel periodically to all Cambium sites, particularly El Segundo, Mooresville, and Europe.

Salary Range $145,000 - $220,000

Cambium offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits plan. This includes excellent medical/dental/vision benefits, and a matching 401(k) plan, professional development reimbursement, and an opportunity for equity for most full-time positions.