Diligent Robotics

Data Engineer

• Design and implement our BigQuery environment
• Set up dbt as the home for our transformation logic
• Introduce dimensional models for core business entities
• Configure native Firestore-to-BigQuery integration
• Work with source-system owners, the analyst team, and engineering teams

Founding Senior Data Engineer

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own and enhance company-wide and functional forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and long-term growth objectives.
• Lead the monthly Latest Estimate (LE) process refreshing the full-year view based on actuals to date, updated run-rates, and revised operational assumptions. Opportunity to socialize the LE with the Head of Finance and functional leaders.
• Lead the annual budget and long-range planning (LRP) cycles, including driver-based financial models that incorporate operational, commercial, and strategic assumptions.
• Build and reconcile both top-down and bottom-up financial models so forecasts are internally consistent, realistic, and decision-useful.
• Maintain scenario and sensitivity models to assess the financial impact of strategic initiatives, pricing changes, deployment pacing, and capital allocation decisions.
• Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis (Actuals vs. Budget, vs. Prior LE, vs. Prior Year), translating results into clear insights on performance drivers.
• Identify emerging trends, risks, and execution gaps early, and proactively recommend corrective actions.
• Elevate financial storytelling by connecting results to operational and strategic context; produce clear, concise commentary for the Head of Finance, executive leadership, and parent company reporting.
• Partner with Accounting during month-end close to support accruals, flux explanations, and reporting integrity.
• Partner directly with the Diligent’s Director of Business Operations (BizOps) on strategic analyses that shape how Diligent runs including fleet economics, cost-to-serve, deployment pacing, customer profitability, capacity planning, and operational KPIs.
• Translate operational data (deployment metrics, service events, utilization, labor hours) into financial insight and vice versa, so leadership can make better-informed decisions faster.
• Build and maintain operating dashboards and unit economic models that bridge finance and operations.
• Support pricing, commercial strategy, and go-to-market decisions with rigorous, well-documented analysis.
• Prepare and deliver executive-ready materials, including presentations and financial narratives for leadership meetings, board reviews, and parent company reporting.
• Communicate complex financial concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Product, and GTM.
• Support ad hoc strategic analyses related to new market entry, pricing strategy, partnerships, and corporate initiatives.
• Operate with executive presence and earn trust as a go-to thought partner for senior leadership.
• Use advanced Excel/Google Sheets and emerging productivity tools (AI assistants, scripting, workflow automation) to streamline reporting and analysis.
• Improve data accuracy, speed, and scalability across the FP&A stack through automation and process redesign.

Senior Financial Analyst

Controller

• Own revenue recognition across all Diligent commercial offerings & robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) arrangements.
• Review customer contracts to identify performance obligations, determine SSPs, allocate transaction price, and document recognition methodology in technical memos.
• Evaluate lease components under ASC 842 within customer arrangements and coordinate with legal and sales on contract structure.
• Establish and maintain revenue policies, controls, and workflows that scale with contract volume and deal complexity.
• Own inventory accounting across raw materials, WIP, finished goods, service parts, and customer-deployed units, including capitalization, standard costing, and revaluation.
• Lead physical inventory counts, cycle counts, and reconciliations across contract manufacturers and internal locations; investigate and resolve variances.
• Determine and defend COGS methodology, purchase price variance analysis, capitalized variances, and excess and obsolete (E&O) reserves.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering to ensure BOMs, routings, and landed costs flow correctly into the general ledger.
• Own fixed asset accounting for the deployed Moxi fleet and other PP&E, including capitalization policy, useful lives, depreciation methodology, and related disclosures.
• Monitor for impairment triggers, oversee asset retirements and disposals, and ensure accurate tracking of fleet movements between inventory, capitalized fixed assets, and customer sites.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the parent company’s external auditors during interim, quarterly review, and year-end audit procedures.
• Coordinate with internal audit (Serve or co-sourced) on SOX walkthroughs, testing, and remediation at the subsidiary level.
• Own the PBC (prepared-by-client) process. Deliver complete, well-supported schedules on time and defend technical positions in auditor meetings.
• Draft and present technical accounting memos on revenue, inventory, leases, and other judgment areas.
• Support Serve Robotics’ external reporting, including quarterly and annual filings, by delivering accurate, well-documented subsidiary financials on the parent’s close calendar.
• Own the monthly and quarterly close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, flux analysis, intercompany activity, foreign currency, and consolidation deliverables to the parent company.
• Establish, document, and operate a SOX-ready control environment appropriate for a public company subsidiary, in coordination with the parent’s SOX program.
• Maintain accounting policies, process narratives, and control documentation that support SOX, external audit, and operational scaling.
• Oversee AP, AR, payroll accounting, fixed assets, equity, and tax provision support in partnership with internal team members and external providers.
• Deliver timely, accurate GAAP financial statements and management reporting with clear variance commentary to the Head of Finance and leadership.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the accounting team; build scalable processes, clear ownership, and a strong close calendar as the team grows.
• Support our transition from QBO to NetSuite, then drive continuous improvement and automation across NetSuite and connected systems (billing, expense, AP automation, procurement, equity).
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Operations, People, Legal, and Tax to ensure accounting implications are considered in key business decisions.