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