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Senior Accountant - General Ledger

Lightning AI · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Lightning AI

From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.

About the role

This is the record-to-report seat. Our Accounting Manager, Revenue Operations owns revenue and AR; our Senior Accountant, Accounts Payable & Procure-to-Pay owns the payables cycle. You will support the rest of the balance sheet such as cash reconciliation, intercompany, payroll accrual, prepaids, fixed assets, leases, and the monthly financial statements and flux analysis that tie it all together.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on monthly close work, a mix of public accounting and high-growth industry experience is ideal
  • Demonstrated command of the balance sheet close: cash, intercompany, prepaids, fixed assets, and payroll accounting
  • Experience supporting an external audit as a preparer, including building workpapers that stand on their own
  • Excellent written communication, you can explain a variance in a sentence and document a conclusion in a memo
  • Advanced Excel, comfort working with large transaction datasets
More about this role

Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.

Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.

We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.

The people who thrive here are builders who move fast, communicate openly, take ownership, and continuously improve themselves, their teams, and our company. Here's what that looks like in practice:

  • Move with Urgency: We move quickly, make thoughtful decisions, and keep momentum. We value action over perfection and learn by shipping.
  • Take Ownership: We own outcomes, not just our individual work. We make decisions that move the company...

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