General Ledger Accountant, Payroll

About Etched
Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.

Job Summary
We're hiring a General Ledger Accountant, Close to own critical elements of our month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close and support scalable close process. This is a hands-on role focused on the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger, ensuring financial results are complete, timely, and properly supported.

You'll be close to the details - owning core close deliverables - while also helping design systems and workflows that scale as the company grows. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys the rigor of technical close work, understands how transactional activity flows through to the financial statements, and wants real ownership over a critical financial function.

As a GL Accountant, you'll manage day-to-day ledger activities while helping build the controls and processes that scale with us. You'll work cross-functionally with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll teams to support accurate, reliable financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Close Ownership: Own and lead core components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial results and strong internal controls over the general ledger:

• Maintain and manage the close calendar, coordinating tasks and deadlines across accounting and cross-functional teams

• Prepare, post and/or review journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, amortization schedules, fixed assets/depreciation, leases, and intercompany transactions

• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations for assigned accounts and resolve reconciling items timely

• Prepare flux analysis for balance sheet and P&L accounts, investigating and explaining period-over-period variances

• Ensure subledgers (AP, AR, payroll, fixed assets) tie out to the general ledger each period

• Review trial balance for unusual or unsupported entries prior to close finalization

Internal Control: Support close-related internal control processes by ensuring proper documentation, approvals, transaction accuracy, and record retention in accordance with company policies:

• Maintain organized close documentation (workpapers, reconciliations, journal entry support) to support internal reviews and audits

• Ensure journal entries have proper approval, supporting documentation, and adherence to segregation-of-duties policies

• Maintain up-to-date process documentation and desktop procedures for close workflows

• Support periodic internal control reviews, walkthroughs, and testing

• Support external audit and internal audit requests, including preparation of PBC (prepared-by-client) items

Systems & Scaling: Support the continued scaling of close operations by maintaining system accuracy, improving process efficiency, and ensuring GL infrastructure can support company growth across entities and jurisdictions:

• Maintain accurate configuration of chart of accounts, entities, segments, and classes within the ERP

• Support integration between the ERP, subledgers, and other connected financial systems

• Support system setup for new entities, currencies, and jurisdictions as the company expands

• Standardize close processes and checklists to reduce manual intervention and close timeline

• Identify and implement automation opportunities within the close cycle

Cross-Functional Reporting: Support accurate financial statements and management reporting in accordance with US GAAP, including technical accounting for non-routine or complex transactions, ensuring accurate data flows into the GL through close partnership with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll:

• Own preparing monthly and quarterly financial statement packages

• Support operationalizing technical accounting memos on non-routine or complex transactions

• Own multi-entity consolidations and intercompany eliminations

• Support operationalizing revenue recognition, lease accounting, and other technical accounting areas as applicable

• Partner with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll teams to ensure accurate, reconciled handoffs into the GL and resolve cross-departmental discrepancies

• Support ad hoc data requests, schedules, and analysis for Finance leadership and external reporting

You may be a good fit if you have

• Experience owning close processes end-to-end in a fast-paced environment

• Proficiency with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent; comfort with scaling systems in a high-growth environment

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience

• CPA or equivalent experience required

• Strong understanding of US GAAP and technical accounting concepts

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively across departments

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage

  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits

• Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office

• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)

• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more

• Daily lunch and dinner in our office

• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.

 

We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.