About this role
Role Description
Join Our Innovative Team at Mile 2! Are you into solving tough problems and building cool tech? Do you thrive in a team where your ideas are heard and your creativity is encouraged? If you're nodding along, Mile 2 might be the place for you.
The Controller is a pivotal leadership role reporting directly to the CFO, owning our accounting ecosystem and guiding a dedicated team consisting of a Senior Accountant and Program Controller.
You will partner with Director-level leaders across every department, not just Finance, and have a real understanding of what's happening across the organization. You need to be an excellent communicator, comfortable explaining financial and compliance topics clearly to a wide audience.
Success here requires true operational ownership, high craftsmanship, and proactive leadership. We expect our Controller to maintain rigorous line-by-line scrutiny over our GL, cash forecasting, and balance sheet reconciliations by catching discrepancies, verifying transactions, and preventing errors before they reach executive review.
You need to be genuinely tech-savvy, understanding how our processes and systems fit together, and ready to help the team embrace automation and AI in ways that actually make us better, not adopt it just because it's trendy.
Qualifications
Active CPA license. Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance. 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 4 years in a GovCon environment. 2+ years of experience specifically with CPFF (Cost-Plus Fixed-Fee) contracts. Deep working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, GAAP, and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), including staying current with regulatory changes. Proven experience navigating a DCAA audits as the responsible party. Deep, hands-on Unanet expertise, including configuration and administration, not just report-level use; comfortable serving as the go-to resource for other staff. Strong understanding of how finance systems and processes interconnect, with the judgment to think through how a change might affect other people or teams before making it. Excellent verbal and written communicator, comfortable translating financial and compliance topics for audiences ranging from the accounting team to the whole company. Self-motivated leader who takes full ownership of the team and empowers them to do their best work. Advanced Excel skills, including data extraction, transformation, and financial modeling. Experience leading process improvement initiatives within a finance function. Experience coordinating annual tax return preparation with an outside CPA firm, including familiarity with R&D tax credit calculations. Experience overseeing a 401(k) plan audit and an annual financial statement compilation or audit. Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with leaders outside of finance, and genuine interest in understanding the business beyond the numbers. Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills, particularly in producing financial commentary that holds up to scrutiny. Strong work ethic, high attention to detail, and uncompromising integrity. Genuine enjoyment of teaching and mentoring others, especially less experienced teammates.
Requirements
Experience leading a finance team through a transition, turnaround, or systems change. Experience training or mentoring non-finance staff on compliance requirements. Genuine comfort evaluating and implementing new technology or automation, grounded in real technical understanding rather than trend-chasing. Hands-on experience with AI tools or workflow automation in a finance context. Experience integrating Unanet data with third-party analytics or automation platforms.
Benefits
Supportive and inclusive environment. Competitive benefits. Opportunities to advance your career.