Manager, General Accounting

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

The Manager, General Accounting will support the Controller organization and manage core close and GL activities across multiple entities.

Fervo Energy is building the most cost-effective, repeatable geothermal power plants in the world. Achieving this mission requires disciplined financial operations, strong controls, audit-ready documentation, and scalable processes that support Fervo's transition into a public-company operating environment. Joining Fervo means operating at the intersection of energy infrastructure, growth-stage execution, and public-company readiness, where reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement are foundational.

We are seeking a Manager, General Accounting to strengthen Fervo's general ledger, monthly close, cash and bank reconciliation, prepaids, accruals, intercompany, allocations, consolidations, and account reconciliation processes. This role is a critical backbone position for building a close process that is accurate, efficient, well documented, and ready for public-company controls.

Description

The Manager, General Accounting will support the Controller organization and manage core close and GL activities across multiple entities. The role requires hands-on execution, reviewer discipline, people leadership and cross-functional collaboration. The successful candidate will maximize staff accountants productivity, , improve documentation, strengthen reconciliations, and build repeatable processes that reduce rework and overtime.

Fervo is scaling rapidly, so this role requires strong ownership, crisp communication, a controls mindset, and the ability to partner effectively across Accounting, Finance, Operations, Legal, Tax, Treasury, Commercial, and external advisors.

Responsibilities

Month-End Close and General Ledger Ownership

• Own or review recurring close activities, including cash posting, bank reconciliations, prepaids, accruals, PP&E accounts, payroll-related accruals, legal accruals, G&A allocations, and other general ledger entries.
• 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.

Reconciliations, Controls and Audit Readiness

• 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.

Process Improvement and Team Development

• 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.

Qualifications

Required

• 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.

Preferred

• CPA or CPA track preferred.
• Public accounting and/or experience at a public-company.
• Experience with FloQast, Quorum, OpenInvoice
• Experience in energy, tax equity infrastructure, renewable power, or multi-entity project accounting environments.
• SOX readiness, process documentation, or system implementation experience.

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This position requires regular in-office presence at our Houston office, with eligibility to participate in the Company's hybrid work policy. Some travel may be required.

Fervo Energy commercializes technology to own, develop, and operate geothermal assets as the dispatchable foundation to a 100% clean energy future. As a 24/7, reliable clean energy resource, geothermal energy has a major role to play in the future electric grid and Fervo Energy's key innovations bring a full suite of modern technology to make geothermal cost competitive. Fervo's innovations include technologies such as advanced computational models, horizontal drilling, and distributed fiber optic sensing that we have developed with partners including Schlumberger, ARPA-E, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Fervo is supported through Cyclotron Road, the Department of Energy, Stanford University, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.