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LAYIQ - Senior Accountant, Accounting Operations at Panthalassa

Execute key month-end close tasks on schedule, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, supporting schedules, and month-over-month flux analysis, to deliver accurate, reliable, and timely financial statements.
Own balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring every account is reconciled, supported, and reviewed monthly, and resolve variances before they carry forward.
Account for fixed assets and capital projects, including CIP, capitalization vs. expense decisions, and depreciation, as the company moves from R&D toward manufacturing.
Oversee the flow of transactions into NetSuite, ensuring invoices, bills, expenses, and payments are routed correctly and coded accurately by department, project, vendor, and spend category.
Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and procurement to understand the business context behind spend and turn it into repeatable coding and accounting rules.
Resolve payment and invoice issues, including discrepancies, missing payments, and payment timing, working with internal teams and vendors.
Identify manual or error-prone workflows and improve them through automation, AI tools, better spreadsheet design, or ERP configuration, and document the result.
Build and maintain controls and documentation that make the books auditable and scalable.
Lead audit, tax, and compliance deliverables for the accounting areas you own.
Maintain an extremely high bar for accuracy, confidentiality, responsiveness, and ownership.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of accounting experience, including at least 3 years in an industry role owning general ledger and month-end close work.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, including accruals, prepaids, capitalization, and how the three financial statements connect.
Experience independently preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
Strong number sense: you can tell when something looks off, whether it's an unusual invoice, an unexpected balance, or a variance that doesn't make sense, and you have the curiosity and know-how to dig in and find the cause.
Sound judgment on accounting treatment, with the ability to research questions and bring a recommendation, not just the issue.
Technology-forward, with real experience using AI and automation to improve accounting work while preserving accuracy and controls.
Ability to understand business context and turn it into clear, repeatable accounting treatment.
Experience with NetSuite or another ERP and a modern spend platform.
Advanced Excel skills.
Clear communication with internal teams and external partners.
A hands-on, ownership-oriented mindset and comfort building processes in a fast-moving, lean environment.
Desired Qualifications
CPA or active progress toward licensure.
Experience in a startup, manufacturing, hardware, energy, infrastructure, or project-based environment.
Experience supporting at least two annual financial statement audits in an industry role, ideally with a Big 4 or other top-10 firm, including preparing PBC schedules and responding to auditor requests.
The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired skills and experience listed.
Additional Requirements
Travel to vendors and test sites as needed
Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs. While we expect a lot of each other, we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including flexible PTO and flexible working hours.

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