Director of Controllership Transformation

Job Description

Job Description

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at

What You'll Do:

The CoreWeave CAO organization is a team of leaders that love solving problems and building for the future in a controlled, governed environment…all while having fun! In the exciting, evolving world of AI technology, we support our business partners in making decisions, driving accurate, timely, and scalable accounting operations and reporting. We pride ourselves on being the backbone to support the hyper growth of CoreWeave - The Essential Cloud for AITM. As part of the Controllership team, you will be surrounded by expertise across SEC Reporting, Technical Accounting, Treasury Accounting and Corporate Accounting.

This role will lead the Controllership organization on our growth journey through system and process transformations and governance of our data, requiring a strong accounting background. As the Company surges ahead, our ability to scale requires increased automation and system changes, process changes, and governance. Using your strong accounting and controllership background, you will focus on process, controls, and identifying and driving opportunities for automation by thinking outside of the box with a focus on scaling the core accounting foundational systems and processes for the future.

About the Role:

As Director of the Controllership Transformation team, you will lead the Controllership organization on our fast paced, growth journey. This team is responsible for identifying, designing and implementing the areas for automation, including the use of AI and ERP transformations as well as integrating acquired companies. With system changes also comes process changes that must be carefully managed and designed to take full advantage of the system changes and ensure ongoing SOX compliance. And finally, with a growing system infrastructure to support the Controllership and foundation of the accounting books of record, this leader will also oversee governance of the Controllership master data.

In this role, you will:

• Shape and drive the future vision of the Controllership organization, working with leadership across the Finance organization and cross-functional teams
• Leverage your corporate accounting background to ensure the build and design of our future vision enables us to scale and maintain accurate accounting records.
• Build a team to drive identification of pain points, opportunities for automation and transformative process changes required across the Controllership organization
• Engage and drive with the Controllership teams opportunities for process improvements and change management
• Lead the team in writing and reviewing business requirements documents for Controllership system transformation
• Support the teams through control assessments, in particular with process and system changes
• Build on and maintain a master data governance process

Who You Are:

• 15+ years of experience in US GAAP accounting, including leading cross-functional system projects and implementations
• Proven track record of leading accounting organizations through change for both systems and processes
• Extensive experience in managing in a SOX controlled environment
• Demonstrated experience managing master data governance
• CPA license

Preferred:

• Experience supporting fast growing companies in a complex business space in corporate controllership organization
• Experienced in driving and implementing automation projects through both small changes and full-scale systems and processes changes for large, end-to-end processes
• Experience leveraging and overseeing data for the controllership organization.

Wondering if you're a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who bring diverse experiences—even if you don't meet every requirement. If some of this describes you, we'd love to talk.

• You love to own and improve processes in fast-growing environments.
• You're curious and love to think outside of the box about the possibilities could be
• You respect and promote governed and controlled processes
• Collaborating and communicating across cross-functional teams makes you excited to come to work and solve interesting, complex problems.

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth, and we're not afraid of a little chaos. Our team cares deeply about how we build and how we work together, guided by our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $220,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we've posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: View email address on ziprecruiter.com.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.