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Volvo Autonomous Solutions · 4 days ago

Senior Accountant & Business Controller

Fort Worth, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$159K/yr - $198K/yr

7+ years exp

Volvo Autonomous Solutions is a newly formed subsidiary focused on transforming freight through autonomous trucking technology. They are seeking a Senior Accountant & Business Controller to build the financial infrastructure of the company, manage the accounting cycle, and drive financial insights for decision-making.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesTransportation

Responsibilities

Build a strong accounting foundation and own the full accounting cycle—month-end close, reconciliations, and financial statements—ensuring everything is accurate, timely, and grounded in solid controls

Turn financials into actionable insights by analyzing results, surface trends, and helping leadership understand what the numbers really mean. Your dashboards and KPIs will power better decisions across operations and fleet

Lead our Finance-as-a-Service (FaaS) implementation and drive the rollout of our third-party finance provider, defining workflows, validating outputs, and making sure the FaaS model delivers what the business needs at this stage

Optimize our financial processes linked to FaaS processes and systems where you will take point on systems and related integrations, building clean processes and finding opportunities to automate and streamline and ensure robust internal processes to validate and optimize the relationship

Protect and advance the business through compliance, maintaining strong controls, and building the models, forecasts, and insights that support smart planning and sustainable growth

Qualification

AccountingFinancial analysisFinance-as-a-ServiceGAAPIFRSSage IntacctSAPAnalytical skillsProactivityCommunicationLeadership

Required

At least 7 years of experience in accounting or controlling, ideally in transportation, logistics, or another operationally complex, asset-heavy environment

Strong accounting foundation and understanding of GAAP and IFRS

Ability to run a close independently

Experience leading external partners and managing a Finance-as-a-Service model

Strong analytical instincts and ability to turn financials into actionable insights

Experience with month-end close, reconciliations, and financial statements

Ability to communicate well and translate financial data into meaningful insights

Experience in a start-up environment

Independence, accountability, and execution as core strengths