Public-Company CAO: IPO-Readiness & Scaled Accounting

Big Watt Digital, LLC; Sammamish (WA); On-site; USD 400,000 - 425,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Cash Bonus

Incentive Award Units

Short-term and long-term disability

Life Insurance

Coming soon: 401(k) Plan with match

Job summary

Big Watt Digital, LLC seeks a CPA with deep U.S. GAAP and public-company experience to lead complex accounting across capital-intensive projects.

You will own policy, consolidation, and reporting for HoldCo, ProjectCos and JVs, partnering with auditors and executives to ensure rigorous controls and scalable processes. You will drive NetSuite implementation, ITGCs and SOX compliance, and align accounting with project economics, treasury, FP&A and investor relations.

Qualifications

• CPA with deep U.S. GAAP, technical accounting and public-company experience.
• Experience in infrastructure, energy, data centers, technology, construction or similarly capital-intensive industries.
• Proven ability to build and scale Accounting through rapid growth or IPO readiness, leveraging both talent and technology.
• Can develop complex accounting positions from first principles, defend them with Big Four auditors and explain them clearly to a Board.
• Understands how accounting policy translates into systems, data, processes and controls.
• Exercises sound judgment where precedent is limited and business models are evolving.
• Attracts exceptional talent and combines public-company rigor with startup speed, ownership and adaptability.
• Wants to shape accounting practice in a rapidly evolving industry.

Responsibilities

• Own technical policy across construction, capitalization, fixed assets, leases, revenue, JVs/VIEs, debt, derivatives and complex financing.
• Translate evolving commercial and infrastructure models into scalable, defensible accounting positions.
• Bring Accounting upstream into investment, customer, financing and structuring decisions.
• Partner with auditors and advisors to challenge significant judgments and build documentation that withstands PCAOB, SEC and investor scrutiny.
• Establish accounting across the full project lifecycle: development, construction, CIP, COD and stabilized operations.
• Set standards for capitalization, componentization, useful lives, depreciation, capitalized interest and impairment.
• Ensure consistent accounting across HoldCo, ProjectCos, JVs and a growing portfolio of multi-billion-dollar projects.
• Own consolidation, close and financial statement integrity, connecting GAAP outcomes to underlying economics.
• Lead NetSuite implementation, including entity structures, chart of accounts, project dimensions, consolidation and workflows.
• Embed scalable controls across CIP, fixed assets, intercompany, debt, leases, revenue and JVs.
• Establish public-company-grade ITGCs, segregation of duties, master data governance and audit trails.
• Integrate Accounting with Procurement, Treasury, FP&A and reporting systems; automate aggressively without compromising SOX compliance.
• Drive S-1 readiness and ongoing SEC reporting, including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, MD&A and disclosures.
• Establish the SOX/ICFR framework, including risk assessment, control design, testing and remediation.
• Lead external audits and manage the independent auditor relationship.
• Advise the CFO, CEO and Audit Committee on significant judgments and financial reporting risks.
• Anticipate emerging accounting issues across AI infrastructure, data centers, power and project finance.
• Build relationships with leading audit firms, peer CAOs, technical experts and standard-setting bodies.
• Participate in industry forums, bringing emerging practices into BWD and helping shape precedent where it remains limited.
• Partner with FP&A to connect accounting outcomes to project economics and enterprise performance.
• Engage Treasury before financing decisions to assess accounting, balance-sheet and disclosure implications.
• Support Investor Relations in translating reported results into underlying economics.
• Work directly with Development, Construction, Commercial and Legal on complex transactions.
• Exercise independent technical judgment with commercial pragmatism.
• Build capabilities across Controllership, Technical Accounting, Project Accounting, Fixed Assets, SEC Reporting and SOX.
• Recruit and develop leaders who can operate at public-company standards.
• Develop deep internal expertise, leveraging external advisors selectively for specialized matters.
• Build a culture where Accounting understands and influences the business—not simply records it.

Skills

CPA

Technical accounting

Public-company experience

Strategic thinking

Education

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Big Watt Digital, LLC seeks a CPA with deep U.S. GAAP and public-company experience to lead complex accounting across capital-intensive projects.

You will own policy, consolidation, and reporting for HoldCo, ProjectCos and JVs, partnering with auditors and executives to ensure rigorous controls and scalable processes. You will drive NetSuite implementation, ITGCs and SOX compliance, and align accounting with project economics, treasury, FP&A and investor relations.