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title: 'Controller at Buzz Solutions'
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# Controller at Buzz Solutions

- **Company:** Buzz Solutions
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzsolutions/jobs/5295441008

## Job description

Our team is seeking an experienced Controller to lead Buzz Solution’s accounting and financial operations. This role will oversee all aspects of financial management, including accounting, financial reporting, budget and forecasts preparation, financial risk management, as well as the development and oversight of internal control policies and procedures. You will work closely with the executive leadership team to drive performance through financial reporting.

## Responsibilities

- Oversee all day-to-day accounting operations, including general ledger, and fixed assets
- Manage the month-end and year-end close processes
- Establish and document policies, procedures, and best practices for the finance function
- Own the full-cycle accounts payable process: vendor onboarding and W-9/1099 setup, purchase-order and invoice matching, GL coding, approval routing, payment runs, and vendor reconciliations and inquiries.
- Reconcile the AR and AP subledgers to the general ledger each period and maintain the related accrual and allowance estimates, including the allowance for credit losses.
- Build and maintain robust internal controls to support future audit cycles and diligence processes
- Prepare timely, accurate GAAP financial statements and the monthly management reporting package, with variance analysis against budget and prior period.
- Manage tax filings, sales tax compliance, and multi-state nexus considerations
- Proactively identify compliance risks and implement corrective measures
- Own cash management, bank reconciliations, and short-term cash forecasting.
- Forecast working-capital needs and time funding and disbursements against the cash position.
- Provide recommendations to improve financial performance and resource allocation.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
- CPA license, preferred
- 8+ years of progressive public accounting (audit) background, ideally with technology or SaaS clients.
- Proven experience owning the full accounting cycle and close process
- Knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, and internal tools
- Familiarity with SaaS business models and relevant metrics (ARR, ACV,CAC, burn rate)
- Experience supporting fundraising processes and investor reporting

Anticipated Pay Range: $120,000 - $140,000

Benefits: Health, Dental &Vision insurance, 401k Contributions, Unlimited Paid Time Off, STD/LTD,

## About Buzz Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Buzz Solutions provides an AI-powered platform that analyzes aerial imagery from drones, helicopters, and ground crews to detect faults and anomalies on transmission, distribution, substation, and solar infrastructure, helping utilities prevent outages and wildfires.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; total funding $9.5M across 5 rounds, most recent $5M in February 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Kaitlyn Albertoli (CEO & Co-Founder) and Vikhyat Chaudhry (COO & CTO, Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Utilities / Energy infrastructure inspection
- **Target customers**: B2B – electric utilities (transmission, distribution, substation operators, solar farm owners), large power companies
- **Mission statement**: “To safeguard the world’s energy infrastructure” – proactively identifying and fixing hazards before they cause wildfires, forced shutdowns, or power outages.

## Products & Services
- **PowerAI (Platform)**: A SaaS platform that ingests visual data (helicopter, drone, lineman-captured images) and applies computer vision to detect component defects, vegetation risks, and anomalies. Modules cover Distribution, Transmission, Substations, and Solar. Capabilities include thermal + RGB analysis, GIS mapping, and integration with Esri, Maximo, and Skydio.
- **PowerAI Video Analytics (Substation Security)**: AI-based live monitoring of existing CCTV feeds for intrusion, person-down, smoke/fire, insulator defects, and thermal alerts – runs 24/7 with no new cameras needed.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $3.8M (LinkedIn estimate); Total funding $9.5M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include GoPoint Ventures (led $5M round), Blackhorn Ventures. Partners include Esri (Silver Partner), Skydio, Maximo.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 40 employees (+22% YoY headcount growth)
  - Customers: Dominion Energy (47,000 structures analyzed), New York Power Authority, AEP Texas (88,000 images cleared in one season), Ameren (scaling solar from 510 MW to 2,500 MW by 2030)
  - PowerAI 2.0 launched in January 2025
  - 85%+ detection accuracy in field, processing speed of 0.6 seconds per image vs. 1–2 minutes manually

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific AI**: Trained on utility infrastructure data, mimicking veteran lineworker expertise – reads insulator types, paint conditions, hardware anomalies.
- **Speed & Scale**: Processes tens of thousands of images in hours, reducing analysis time by up to 70%.
- **Proven ROI**: Case studies show 6 months saved on wildfire mitigation programs, 4.9× faster site inspections, >75% time savings per site.
- **Integration ecosystem**: Works natively with Esri GIS, Maximo asset management, and Skydio drone fleet.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate adoption of AI-based inspections across more utilities (transmission, distribution, substations, solar).
- Expand substation security monitoring with live video analytics.
- Scale solar inspection capabilities in line with utility renewable targets.
- Continue building out partner network (Esri, ARCOS) and product integrations.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work that directly prevents wildfires, outages, and grid failures – tangible environmental and safety impact.
- **Remote-first**: All open roles are remote (US-based, with some roles open to remote globally).
- **Engineering culture**: Building end-to-end ML products and pipelines; roles include Computer Vision & ML Engineer, Applied ML Platform Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer, QA Engineer.
- **Startup growth**: Venture-funded with proven traction; headcount growing 22% YoY; 11 active job postings as of mid-2025.
- **Team**: Talented, passionate, hardworking engineers and product managers; collaborative environment with opportunities to own significant pieces of the platform.

## Sources
1. [buzzsolutions.co](https://www.buzzsolutions.co/) – Product overview, customer case studies, performance metrics
2. [buzzsolutions.co/about](https://www.buzzsolutions.co/about/) – Mission, founding story, team
3. [buzzsolutions.co/careers](https://www.buzzsolutions.co/careers/) – Open roles, culture description
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzsolutions](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzsolutions) – Current job listings (11 roles)
5. [linkedin.com/company/buzzsolutionsinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/buzzsolutionsinc.) – Employee count, revenue, funding, headcount growth, locations

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