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Odyssey· Operations
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Palo AltoFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Controller position responsible for building and leading Odyssey's accounting function, owning close, financial reporting, U.S. GAAP, audit, policy, and controls, and developing scalable financial systems and processes to support rapid growth.

Responsibilities

  • Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close and ensure timely, accurate financial reporting.
  • Own accounting policy and compliance with U.S. GAAP.
  • Lead our external audit and manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and other accounting partners.
  • Build scalable accounting processes, policies, controls, and reporting from the ground up.
  • Develop our financial systems architecture, including the evolution of our systems, chart of accounts, cost centers, project accounting, procurement, payroll, and related systems.
  • Establish strong accounting for increasingly complex areas including high-value, multi-year compute and infrastructure commitments, training cost allocations, and capacity planning, ensuring precise tracking, accounting, and reporting of these mission-critical expenses, alongside revenue, equity and stock-based compensation, leases, and multi-entity operations.
  • Partner with FP&A to ensure actuals, forecasts, budgets, and management reporting operate from a consistent financial foundation.
  • Build and lead a high-performing accounting organization as Odyssey grows.
  • Support financings, investor and board reporting, diligence, and other strategic transactions.
  • Build the accounting and control environment capable of supporting Odyssey through its next stages of growth and, over time, public-company readiness.
  • Lead the annual 409A valuation process, ensuring rigorous coordination with external legal and accounting partners to maintain compliance and accurate financial reporting.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful leadership responsibility.
  • You've been a Controller, Assistant Controller, or senior accounting leader in a high-growth technology company.
  • You have deep command of U.S. GAAP and have personally owned complex accounting judgments.
  • You've led audits and know what excellent financial reporting and controls look like.
  • You're comfortable designing processes and systems rather than inheriting them.
  • You're highly analytical and willing to work directly in the details when that's what the company needs.
  • You can operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where the answer isn't always obvious.
  • You communicate clearly and can earn the trust of executives, investors, auditors, and operating teams.
  • You're excited to build a function, not simply manage one.

Skills

Required:U.S. GAAPFinancial closeAudit leadership
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Odyssey

Odyssey is an AI lab focused on general-purpose world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons

Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general-purpose world models—a new form of multimodal intelligence.

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