Senior Accountant
- Compensation
- $150K–$180K / yr
- Location
- Los Angeles
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 4+ years of progressive accounting or audit experience in public accounting, industry, or a combination of both.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and fundamental accounting principles.
- Experience owning components of a monthly close, including journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Experience preparing or supporting financial statements and financial statement audits.
Nice to have
- 2–4 years of accounting or audit experience.
- Big 4 or other public accounting experience.
- CPA or progress toward CPA certification.
- Experience at a high-growth, venture-backed company.
- Experience in aerospace, defense, nuclear, manufacturing, or another hard-tech industry.
- Experience with manufacturing, inventory, fixed assets, or cost accounting.
- Exposure to government contracting, DCAA compliance, FAR/DFARS, or government grant accounting.
- Experience supporting or managing a financial statement audit.
- Knowledge of ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 842 lease accounting, and ASC 718 stock-based compensation.
- Experience with QuickBooks, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or another ERP/accounting system.
- Experience with Ramp or other modern AP and expense-management platforms.
- Experience implementing or improving accounting systems, processes, and internal controls.
- Interest in using technology and automation to improve accounting processes.
- Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large and complex datasets.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to understand how individual transactions flow through the broader financial statements.
- Ability to independently manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Full description
About Us
At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We’re fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we’re building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.
The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
About the Team
Antares is building its Finance & Accounting organization to support the company's transition from research and development into manufacturing and commercial deployment. As a Senior Accountant, you will be one of the early members of the accounting team and play a key role in building the processes, systems, and financial infrastructure required to scale Antares.
This is a highly hands on role with broad exposure across the business. You will own significant portions of the monthly close and financial reporting process while working across technical accounting, government contracts, cost accounting, fixed assets, and financial systems.
You won't be joining a large accounting organization where you own one narrow piece of the process. You'll have the opportunity to take meaningful ownership from day one, work directly with Finance leadership, and help build the accounting function as Antares scales from development into production.
Roles and Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for:
- Own key areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and variance analysis.
- Maintain accurate general ledger accounts and proactively investigate and resolve accounting discrepancies.
- Own balance sheet reconciliations and support monthly financial statement and management reporting.
- Support the preparation of GAAP financial statements and related reporting packages.
- Manage accounting for assigned areas such as cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, accounts payable, payroll, accruals, and other balance sheet and P&L accounts.
- Support annual financial statement audits, tax filings, and other compliance activities, including preparing schedules and working directly with external auditors and advisors.