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