Director, Accounting – Manufacturing

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead, build and develop a team of 8+ across multiple manufacturing facilities. Set the team's structure, hiring plan and development path as the business grows.

• Act as the primary finance partner to manufacturing leadership (operations, supply chain, engineering, quality and procurement). Turn plant and assembly metrics into financial insight and decisions.

• Drive financial accountability across operations by setting cost targets, tracking performance and influencing decisions on capacity, make-vs-buy, sourcing and pricing.

• Advise executive leadership on product and program margins, cost-reduction opportunities and the financial impact of design, material and process changes.

Cost Accounting & Inventory

• Own the cost accounting framework, including standard cost methodology, the annual standard-setting process, overhead absorption and labor rates.

• Set and oversee inventory accounting policy, including valuation, WIP, high-value long-lead components, reserves and excess/obsolete inventory. Own the cycle count and physical inventory programs across all sites.

• Lead analysis of manufacturing variances (purchase price, usage, labor, overhead), yield and productivity. Turn the results into actionable cost-improvement initiatives.

• Own new-product and new-program cost estimates and margin modeling in partnership with Engineering and Sales.

Close, Reporting & Controls

• Be accountable for a timely, accurate month-end close for the manufacturing entity. Present results, key drivers and risks to the Controller, CAO and operations leadership.

• Ensure US GAAP compliance and own the manufacturing control environment, building it out to a SOX-ready, audit-ready standard. Serve as the primary contact for external auditors on manufacturing and inventory matters.

• Lead the manufacturing entity's annual budget and rolling forecasts, working with FP&A.

Systems & Scale

• Act as the accounting owner for the ERP manufacturing modules (BOMs, routings, work orders, costing) and lead system improvements and implementations.

• Design, document and continuously improve scalable processes, with a focus on automation, as new facilities and product lines come online.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting. CPA or CMA required.

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 5+ years in manufacturing or cost accounting and 3+ years leading teams (including managers).

• Proven ownership of standard costing, inventory valuation and variance analysis in a complex, multi-site manufacturing environment.

• Deep experience with ERP manufacturing modules (BOMs, routings, job and work-order costing). ERP implementation experience is a plus.

• Experience with complex inventory, such as WIP, engineered-to-order or high-value long-lead components.

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and internal controls. SOX, public-company or Big 4 experience is a plus.

• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.

• High operational credibility: comfortable on the factory floor and able to influence senior operations and engineering leaders.

• Track record of scaling teams, processes and systems in a high-growth environment.