Assistant Controller

The Assistant Controller is a strategic leader responsible for the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of ŌURA’s US financial reporting. This role manages the end-to-end month-end close and general accounting functions, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and building the foundation for public-company standards.

Reporting to the Controller, you will drive operational excellence by bridging the gap between transactional accuracy and executive-level financial insights. You will exhibit strong accounting judgment in day-to-day operations while partnering with technical experts to operationalize complex guidance.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead Controllership & Close: Own the end-to-end US month-end close, managing governance, cross-functional coordination, and reporting to executive leadership.
• Exhibit Accounting Judgment: Apply rigorous standards to accrual methodologies and estimates; review high-risk journal entries to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Oversee Financial Integrity: Manage balance sheet reconciliations, FX translation, and intercompany eliminations to ensure audit-ready results and actionable variance analysis.
• Modernize Operations: Execute the accounting transformation roadmap, designing scalable workflows and driving automation to reduce manual effort and close cycle times.
• Manage Audit & SOX Readiness: Serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors, leading readiness efforts and strengthening the control environment.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Technical Accounting to interpret and implement policies, and with FP&A to ensure accuracy in budgeting and forecasting.
• Develop Talent: Mentor and scale a high-performing accounting team, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Requirements We would love to consider you for this role if you have:

• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership within general accounting / controllership
• Deep expertise in US GAAP, close processes, and financial reporting
• Strong experience owning or leading month-end close in a complex, high-growth, public environment
• Experience with audit management and SOX readiness in a public-company environment
• Ability to create the narrative around monthly financial results and provide meaningful insights to the business 
• Proven ability to make and defend accounting judgments and estimates
• Experience leading and developing accounting teams
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
• Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite, Oracle, or similar)
• Advanced Excel proficiency
• CPA required
• Experience in high-growth tech, hardware, or consumer products companies

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience implementing or optimizing close tools (e.g., FloQast)
• Exposure to international accounting (FX, intercompany, consolidations)
• Background in Big 4 accounting firms

Benefits 

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave and parental leave

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Region 1 $170,000 - $200,000
• Region 2 $154,700 - $182,000
• Region 3 $139,400 - $164,000

A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).