Senior Accountant - Scale & Automate the Close

Picogrid; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with employer matching

Health coverage (medical, dental, and視

Relocation assistance

Unlimited PTO

11 paid holidays

Parental leave

Office amenities

Job summary

Picogrid in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Senior Accountant to own monthly close, financial reporting, and audit preparation as the company scales. You will drive journal entries, reconciliations, and revenue-related accounting while defining processes to support rapid growth.

You’ll collaborate across Finance, Operations, and Engineering to automate workflows and enhance controls, with opportunities to expand responsibilities as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of progressive accounting or audit experience.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and accounting fundamentals.
• Ability to independently investigate discrepancies and drive issues to resolution.
• Strong attention to detail while understanding the broader business context behind the numbers.
• Comfort operating in an environment where processes are still being built and improved.
• Strong systems aptitude and the ability to learn new finance tools quickly.
• A process-improvement mindset—you naturally look for ways to make recurring work more accurate, automated, and scalable.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills across functions.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close and financial reporting.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Review operating expenses for appropriate classification and departmental allocation.
• Support revenue recognition, accounts payable, and deferred revenue accounting.
• Perform flux and variance analysis to identify unusual activity and improve financial statement accuracy.
• Perform bank reconciliations and cash matching.
• Help improve and automate procure-to-pay and expense processes as we scale.
• Prepare audit-ready financial statement schedules and workpapers.
• Support annual financial statement audit and coordinate audit requests.
• Build processes and documentation to strengthen accuracy and scalability of the accounting function.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive accounting processes and accelerate the close.
• Improve integrations and workflows across the finance stack.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to reduce manual work while maintaining controls.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, and other teams on accounting and systems initiatives.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Accounting software

Job description

Picogrid in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Senior Accountant to own monthly close, financial reporting, and audit preparation as the company scales. You will drive journal entries, reconciliations, and revenue-related accounting while defining processes to support rapid growth.

You’ll collaborate across Finance, Operations, and Engineering to automate workflows and enhance controls, with opportunities to expand responsibilities as the team grows.