Senior Accountant | Climate Tech

• Role : Accounting and finance ops for a portfolio of venture-backed climate tech companies.
• Preferred experience : 4–10 years, including time at a leading national or regional accounting firm
• Location : Remote — US or LATAM (working hours that overlap with US time zones)
• Compensation : US$45,000-60,000 per year + bonus
• Expected start : Dec '26 or Jan '27

Overview

Planetary Scale partners with climate and energy-transition companies as their strategic finance arm, working alongside founders from seed through growth. We help them refine their business model, raise venture funding, manage their finances and get through the hardest moments on the path to scale.

For many of these companies, we also maintain their books, prepare financial reports, and handle day-to-day finance work like paying bills, invoicing customers and running payroll. Founders rely on us to get the numbers right and make sure everyone gets paid on time. That side of our work is growing, and we're hiring a Senior Accountant to take on a group of clients and work closely with the rest of our team to provide world-class finance function support.

The Role

You’ll run the accounting and day-to-day finance work for several client companies at once, alongside a peer accountant who looks after a separate set of clients. For each company, you’ll work with our engagement lead who owns the relationship, and often with the founder and their team directly. Our clients primarily use QuickBooks Online or Xero, plus bank, bill-pay and payroll tools. We also have a set of internally developed tools to make the monthly close process flow smoothly and help to share context across our accounting and strategic finance work.

You’ll be in real client work from your first week, paired with experienced teammates while you learn each company's financial picture and the nuances of working with early-stage companies that are commercializing complex new technologies.

• You’ll own the month-end close for each of your companies: reconciliations, accruals, prepaid and fixed-asset schedules, and financial statements you’ve reviewed yourself before they reach the engagement lead and the founder.
• Where a company relies on us for its payables and receivables, you’ll run them, including bill-pay runs in tools like Bill.com and Brex, as well as invoicing and collections, so vendors are paid on time and cash comes in when it should.
• For some clients, you’ll also run payroll and take care of occasional filings like Delaware Franchise Tax, state sales tax returns or year-end 1099s.
• You will figure out and apply the correct accounting treatment for various revenue recognition scenarios, government grants, venture debt and multi-currency transfer pricing. You’ll need good judgement on when to ask others for help.
• You’ll support audits and investor diligence, preparing schedules and answering auditors' and investors' questions so the founder can focus on running the company. At year end, you’ll prepare each company's package for its outside tax preparer.
• You’ll help make our close faster and more consistent across clients, noticing where a checklist, template or automation would save the team time.

About You

You hold yourself to a high standard — and you want to work somewhere that does the same. A few things that matter here:

• Accuracy is your baseline. Founders, their boards and their investors make decisions from the numbers you close, and a wrong one can undermine a founder's credibility at the worst possible moment. You tie out every balance before you call a month closed, and you'd rather catch your own mistake than have a founder find it.
• You dig in, and you ask when you're not sure. When a balance won't reconcile or a transaction looks off, you trace it back to its source and find out why. If you're unsure how something should be treated, you ask before you book it.
• You're a good teammate. You'll work alongside a peer accountant and each client's engagement lead. You keep them up to date, leave workpapers anyone could follow, and help out when someone else is stretched.
• You aspire to be great at what you do. You put in the time to sharpen your technical skills, including the less common topics our clients run into, like grants and venture debt. When part of the close is slow or easy to get wrong, you build a better way of doing it.
• You take ownership before you're asked. When something needs doing, you do it. If you see the wrong info being communicated, you jump in to fix it before it becomes a bigger issue. At a firm this size, if you assume something is someone else's job, it usually doesn't get done.

Beyond that, for this role specifically:

• You learned