Sr Accounting Manager (Controller Track)
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Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
About Endurance
Endurance is building the worlds first modular subsea geothermal power plants converting vast thermal resources under the ocean into gigawatts of baseload power. Backed by Founders Fund Felicis First Round Capital and Point72 Ventures our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX Helion and Robinhood. We have completed multiple deep-ocean deployments and are launching a long-term demonstration project this fall. By leveraging modular design manufacturing scale efficient drilling and latent cooling on the seafloor we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on both environmental impact and cost.
The Role
Endurance is hiring a Senior Accounting Manager on a defined Controller track to own our general ledger and force audit readiness. Our outsourced accounting firm does the day-to-day bookkeeping and prepares the close and will continue to. Your job is to own the output: review their work and build internal processes to prepare the accounting function for scaled operations.
About 1520% of the role is hands-on: initiating urgent wires setting up vendors and stepping into AP or bookkeeping work when speed matters.
A major near-term priority is our migration from QuickBooks Online to NetSuite. Youll play a central role in that transition (chart-of-accounts design data migration process redesign) and youll help stand up consolidation for our first international subsidiary.
This role will report to the Chief Executive Officer.
Path to Controller
Promotion criteria will be based on close cadence with the outsourced firm balance sheet reconciliations audit readiness and NetSuite implementation. Formal review at 12 months promotion targeted by 18 with a compensation step and equity refresh. From there you build the internal accounting team under you.
What Youll Do
Review and sign off on the monthly close prepared by our outsourced accounting firm covering journal entries accruals prepaids fixed assets payroll entries intercompany activity and cash and balance sheet reconciliations.
Own the chart of accounts accounting policies and the internal reporting package.
Run a monthly reconciliation routine: every balance sheet account reconciled preparer separate from reviewer exceptions cleared.
Prepare Endurance for audits investor and lender diligence and board reporting. Own the control environment the PBC list and organized records for all external stakeholders.
Keep payroll benefits and equity accounting right: multi-state payroll in Gusto benefits deductions reconciled from carrier invoice to payroll to GL stock comp tied to the cap table.
Serve as the primary internal owner of the outsourced accounting relationship and coordinate with tax advisors on income franchise and sales/use tax and R&D credit documentation.
Initiate time-sensitive wires under dual control own vendor onboarding (W-9s payment setup banking-detail verification approval routing) and keep clean records on major vendor contracts and project spend.
Work with the Head of Finance on technical accounting positions: SAFEs and preferred stock stock comp leases and R&D and project cost capitalization.
Help lead the NetSuite migration: chart-of-accounts and entity design data migration and redesigning close AP and reporting workflows.
Required skills and experience
6 years of accounting experience ideally a mix of public accounting and operating-company roles.
Youve owned a monthly close with sign-off responsibility.
Audit experience on either side: company-side through a financial statement audit or as an external auditor.
Strong US GAAP foundation.
Experience managing or reviewing outsourced accounting bookkeepers or tax advisors.
Comfort in the details: wires vendor setup coding and documentation.
Ability to work independently and build processes from scratch in a fast-paced ambiguous startup.
Preferred skills and experience
CPA.
NetSuite or ERP implementation experience.
Multi-entity or multi-currency consolidation.
Startup hardware energy infrastructure or other project-based company experience.
Experience with QuickBooks Online Brex Gusto and Carta.
Benefits & Perks
Global Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest Hawaii Iceland Japan New Zealand and the Azores
Hands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions
Cutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics marine systems and clean energy
Impactful Work: Help solve one of the worlds most pressing challenges
Competitive Compensation: Comprehensive salary and equity packages
Benefits: Vision Dental Health insurance coverage
Dive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification
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