Senior Accountant - General Ledger
About The Position
Lightning AI is seeking a Senior Accountant, General Ledger to support the general ledger close across its legal entities. This role is responsible for the balance sheet, reconciliations, and reporting package, and will play a key part in rebuilding and transforming the close process. The position involves migrating the process into NetSuite, implementing controls to replace manual workarounds, and documenting procedures. The Senior Accountant will join the Finance Team and report to the Director of Corporate Accounting. This is a hybrid role based in the San Francisco office, requiring two days per week in the office.
Requirements
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on monthly close work.
- Demonstrated command of the balance sheet close: cash, intercompany, prepaids, fixed assets, and payroll accounting.
- Experience supporting an external audit as a preparer, including building workpapers that stand on their own.
- Excellent written communication skills; ability to explain a variance in a sentence and document a conclusion in a memo.
- Advanced Excel skills; comfort working with large transaction datasets.
Nice To Haves
- A mix of public accounting and high-growth industry experience is ideal.
- Active CPA (or CPA candidate), or a strong public-accounting foundation.
- Working knowledge of ASC 842.
- Exposure to ASC 805 purchase accounting or multi-entity consolidation.
- ERP experience, particularly NetSuite implementation or migration.
- Comfort working in QuickBooks during transition.
Responsibilities
- Support the general ledger close.
- Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for the balance sheet across entities on a predictable, auditable cadence against a defined close calendar.
- Reconcile cash and treasury, including bank reconciliations across multiple operating, money market, and card-settlement accounts, and third-party payment platforms.
- Clear reconciling items for cash and treasury.
- Prepare monthly intercompany receivable and payable reconciliations between entities.
- Investigate out-of-balance positions for intercompany accounts.
- Support the settlement cadence for intercompany accounts.
- Prepare payroll journal entries, accrued compensation, bonus and PTO schedules.
- Manage GL mapping between the payroll platform and the ledger.
- Maintain prepaid schedules and amortization.
- Maintain the fixed asset register, including in-service timing, capitalization thresholds, and depreciation for large-scale compute hardware.
- Maintain lease schedules and ASC 842 accounting for data center and facility leases.
- Prepare monthly financial statements.
- Prepare balance sheet and income statement flux analysis with written commentary.
- Support the NetSuite implementation.
- Document the close process.
- Write desktop procedures.
- Help establish reconciliation and review controls.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Meaningful equity component (RSUs)
- 401(k) matching (U.S.)
- Pension contributions (U.K.)
- Unlimited PTO
- Company holidays
- Floating holidays
- Company-Wide Winter Break (two weeks)
- Paid Parental & Family Leave
- Annual learning and development allowance
- Wellness and work-from-home stipends
- Sabbatical Program (four weeks paid after four years of service)
- Flexible schedules
- Hybrid work model
- Complimentary meals at office hubs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
