General Accounting Manager: Close & GL (Hybrid)

Fervo Energy Co.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy is seeking a Manager, General Accounting to lead the month-end close, GL ownership, and reconciliations across multiple entities. The role emphasizes strong controls, documentation, and collaboration with Accounting, Finance, Tax, Legal, and external advisors.

The successful candidate will build scalable close processes, improve reconciliations, coach staff, and ensure audit readiness in a fast-growing, public-company environment at our Houston office with a hybrid work policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience with strong monthly close and general ledger ownership.
• Experience preparing and reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, allocations, and close support.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP, internal controls, and audit-ready workpaper standards.
• Experience managing multiple entities, cost centers, intercompany activity, or complex allocation processes.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort with ERP reports, trial balances, reconciliations, and close analytics.
• Ability to lead, coach, review work, and partner cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Month-End Close and General Ledger Ownership.
• Coordinate close timing, dependencies, support quality, and reviewer follow-up to ensure timely and efficient closing within agreed upon timelines.
• Partner with AP, Operations Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Financial Reporting to ensure entries are complete, accurate, timely, and properly supported.
• Own balance sheet reconciliation quality for assigned areas, ensuring reconciliations explain ending balances.
• Review account reconciliations for completeness, aging, reconciling items, support quality, reasonable explanations, and timely resolution.
• Build, or lead staff in creating, desktop procedures, process narratives, and control documentation embedded in key recurring workpapers.
• Support external audit, SOX readiness, and internal control evidence requests for close, reconciliations, allocations, and accrual processes.
• Identify manual close tasks that can be simplified, standardized, automated, or delegated to staff.
• Support implementation and use of close management, reconciliation, ERP, and automation tools.
• Train and cross-train staff accountants to ensure continuity, vacation coverage, and clear ownership of recurring tasks.
• Use analytics to identify unusual balances, stale reconciling items, missed accruals, allocation issues, and process bottlenecks.

Skills

US GAAP

Month-end close

General ledger

Intercompany

Excel advanced

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

CPA track preferred

Tools

FloQast

Quorum

OpenInvoice

Job description

Fervo Energy is seeking a Manager, General Accounting to lead the month-end close, GL ownership, and reconciliations across multiple entities. The role emphasizes strong controls, documentation, and collaboration with Accounting, Finance, Tax, Legal, and external advisors.

The successful candidate will build scalable close processes, improve reconciliations, coach staff, and ensure audit readiness in a fast-growing, public-company environment at our Houston office with a hybrid work policy.