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Controller

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring accurate and timely financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
• Manage the relationship with the company's external bookkeeping firm while developing the accounting capabilities, systems, processes, and internal controls needed to support Scout’s continued growth, including transitioning accounting responsibilities in-house over time.
• Maintain and continuously improve the general ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting policies to support a scaling organization.
• Partner cross-functionally to develop scalable business processes that integrate accounting, procurement, inventory management, manufacturing, and quality system requirements.
• Design, implement, and monitor internal controls over financial reporting and accounting processes, ensuring strong financial governance, segregation of duties, and audit-readiness as the company grows.
• Ensure compliance with government contract accounting requirements, including DCAA compliance, FAR/DFARS requirements, incurred cost submissions, and government contract accounting standards.
• Manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, and revenue recognition across both government and commercial contracts, ensuring strong, well-controlled processes for every dollar in and out of the business.
• Oversee payroll processing and payroll accounting, ensuring accurate and timely pay, tax filings, and benefits administration in coordination with the company's payroll provider.
• Coordinate corporate tax compliance, including sales and use tax, state registrations, annual tax filings, 1099 reporting, and other regulatory filings in partnership with external tax advisors.
• Prepare accurate financial reporting and supporting schedules for executive leadership, investors, lenders, auditors, the Board, as well as program-related reporting required by government and commercial customers.
• Support the annual audit process and coordinate with external auditors, tax preparers, and legal counsel as needed.
• Partner with the CFO and finance leadership on budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and financial reporting, ensuring that financial information is clean, reconciled, and reliable.

System Administrator

• Establish and manage internal IT operations, including documentation, policies, procedures, and asset management processes
• Build and mature Scout's in-house IT support capability while maintaining strong working relationships with our Managed Service Provider (MSP), CMMC consultants, and other technology partners
• Provide first-line IT support for employees, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking, and access issues
• Design, implement, and maintain IT security controls aligned with NIST, CMMC, and other applicable cybersecurity frameworks
• Administer and maintain company hardware, networks, and cloud infrastructure
• Manage user accounts, permissions, and access controls across company systems
• Evaluate, implement, and support new IT systems, tools, and technologies as the company grows
• Support the design and deployment of IT infrastructure for Scout's new facility
• Participate in CMMC preparation, assessment, and certification activities
• Deliver occasional cyber security awareness and IT training to team members
• Maintain IT inventory, lifecycle management, and configuration management processes

Senior IT Systems Administrator

Engineer

• Execute complete thermal design lifecycle for complex optomechanical space payloads
• Work with payload subsystem leads to generate thermal design requirements
• Build thermal models from component to payload levels
• Execute on-orbit and TVAC analyses
• Conduct trade studies to develop passive and active control systems that meet system requirements on performance, schedule, and cost
• Collaborate with systems, electrical, optical, and software engineers to integrate thermal hardware and software into payload
• Collaborate with vendors to spec and source thermal hardware
• Build and test prototype systems for design validation
• Create plans for assembly, integration, and test of payload thermal subsystem
• Guide and supervise technicians in integration of thermal hardware

Controller

Senior IT Systems Administrator

Spacecraft Thermal Engineer