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title: 'Accounting Manager at Cogent Security'
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# Accounting Manager at Cogent Security

- **Company:** Cogent Security
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security/807489c1-55ec-430d-9a06-b1a5823c2a56

## Job description

## ABOUT COGENT

Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at unprecedented speed and scale. Cogent's "AI Taskforce" assesses petabytes of enterprise data to remediate these issues before critical breaches occur.

To stay at the cutting edge, we blend frontier research with real-world execution. Alongside our core product work, Cogent Research serves as our applied AI lab, providing the research horsepower needed to make truly agentic security workflows a reality. We partner with Fortune 500 companies to secure some of the most complex production environments in the world.

We're backed by Greylock & Bain Capital Ventures, and we've built a team with the best minds in applied AI. Our team is comprised of people from:

- Top universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Penn, Duke, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo
- Unicorn, high-growth companies like Scale AI, Databricks, Stripe, Tesla, Coinbase
- World class cybersecurity experts from Wiz, Abnormal AI, Zscaler
- Preeminent research labs like DeepMind and SAIL

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring an Accounting Manager to build the accounting function - this is the first full-time accounting hire at the company. You'll own the general ledger and monthly close, accounts payable and vendor payments, invoicing and collections, and the tax and compliance filings that support them. Near-term priorities include establishing the close calendar, building a chart of accounts for management reporting, automating reconciliations, and selecting the ERP we'll scale on. The role reports to the Head of Finance & Operations; it starts hands-on with third-party contractor support and can grow into managing a small accounting team.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own the monthly close end to end: calendar, journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting deliverables; deliver monthly financials to leadership
- Own the general ledger, chart of accounts, and department structure; maintain accrual, prepaid, and fixed asset schedules
- Own accounts payable end to end: intake, coding, approval routing, and payment runs in Ramp
- Manage vendor onboarding, tax documentation, and international wire payments; apply procurement and expense policy
- Invoice customers and manage collections
- Write and maintain accounting policies and internal controls; prepare the company for its first financial statement audit
- Apply AI tooling to reconciliation, analysis, and documentation workflows

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 4+ years of accounting experience, with exposure to public accounting or in-house accounting at a scaling company
- Ability to own a monthly close end to end - planning, execution, and accountability for the result
- Experience designing or rebuilding an accounting process from the ground up
- Hands-on experience with a general ledger system and a modern expense or AP platform (e.g. Ramp)
- Comfortable working in an early-stage environment with broad scope and shifting priorities
- Expertise and willingness to use AI tools in day-to-day accounting workflows

## BONUS POINTS

- CPA or CPA-track
- SaaS experience
- Experience preparing for or supporting a first financial statement audit
- Familiarity with ERP selection or implementation at an early-stage company

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

## About Cogent Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cogent Security is an applied AI lab building autonomous AI agents that discover, assess, and remediate enterprise vulnerabilities at machine speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A; $11M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Vineet Edupuganti (CEO), Geng Sng (CTO), Thanos Baskous (VP Engineering) [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – specifically vulnerability management and agentic AI for security remediation.
- **Target customers**: Enterprise cybersecurity teams (B2B, mid-market to large enterprises).
- **Mission**: “Prevent breaches using autonomous AI systems that continuously secure systems against AI-armed adversaries operating at machine speed.” [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Products & Services
- **[Cogent Platform]**: An AI-agent workforce that handles the full vulnerability lifecycle. Modules include **Discover** (identify vulnerable software within minutes of a disclosure), **Assess** (risk scoring based on business context), **Remediate** (from assisted to fully autonomous fix deployment), and **Report** (verified evidence-backed reporting). Type: SaaS platform with embedded AI agents. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $11M – Seed round ($11M) led by Greylock Partners (August 2025); subsequent Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with additional investors. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greylock Partners, Bain Capital Ventures. Customers include Alteryx (CISO Lucas Moody), CSC Generation (CEO Justin Yoshimura), University of the Pacific (CISO Mo Bal). [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)
- **Growth Signals**: 39 employees (as of mid-2025), +14% monthly headcount growth, 29 active job postings, reported 3x increase in vulnerability team output and 97% reduction in exposure window for critical vulnerabilities. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI approach** that not only detects but also investigates, coordinates, and verifies fixes – reducing the manual burden on security teams.
- **Founding team** from Google DeepMind, Abnormal Security, and Coinbase, bringing deep AI and security expertise.
- **Rapid time-to-value**: 3 hours from onboarding to full vulnerability assessment.
- **Strong customer satisfaction**: 4.9/5 rating from 1,200+ reviews. [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us)

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling AI agent capabilities to cover more vulnerability types and integrate deeper into enterprise workflows.
- Expanding the commercial team (Sales, Solutions Engineering, TAMs) to capture growing demand.
- Advancing research through **Cogent Research**, tackling open problems in dependable autonomy and AI × security. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include customer centricity, intentionality, ambition for excellence, extreme ownership, velocity, and intellectual honesty. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: In-person in San Francisco and New York, plus remote options within the US. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: Engineers and AI researchers sit together; the distance from idea to production is measured in days. Emphasis on shipping production software, not just research.
- **Notable Perks**: 12-week AI Fellowship for graduate researchers and early-career ML engineers; team hails from top companies like Coinbase, Databricks, AWS, Zscaler, and HashiCorp. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers)
- **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling startup with significant funding, strong customer traction, and a mission-driven focus on one of cybersecurity’s hardest problems.

## Sources
1. [cogent.com](https://www.cogent.com/) – Company overview, product details, customer testimonials
2. [cogent.com/about-us](https://www.cogent.com/about-us) – Founders, mission, team background
3. [cogent.com/company/careers](https://www.cogent.com/company/careers) – Culture, remote policy, AI Fellowship, values
4. [linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogentsecurity) – Employee count, funding, office locations, job postings
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cogent-security) – Active job openings
6. Pulse 2.0 (2025-07-16) – “Cogent Security: $11 Million Raised For AI Taskforce For Vulnerability Management”
7. FinSMEs (2025-07-15) – “Cogent Security Raises $11M in Funding”

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