Senior Accountant
Austin, TX / Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY
Operations – Finance /
Full-time /
On-site
About Nominal
Nominal is a venture-backed company with offices in Los Angeles, Austin, and New York City. We’re focused on building software and data solutions for organizations that test and validate complex systems—think drones, rocket engines, satellites, and nuclear reactors. Supported by leading investors like Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and more, we’re gaining strong traction with both commercial and government customers across the industrial base, including working directly with the Department of Defense.
Our team includes engineers and operators from SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and NASA, all working toward a common goal: making it faster and easier for hardware engineers to push the boundaries of advanced technology safely and efficiently. Our platform enables continuous test of hardware, equipping engineers to deploy capability, at scale, in the shortest time possible.
In this pivotal role, you'll build and lead Nominal’s accounting processes, preparing financial statements, managing the chart of accounts, handling month-end-close, coordinating external audits, and more. It’ll be your role to mature our organization as we officially become a growth-stage company, ensuring timely & accurate reporting to improve internal decision-making and inform investor relations.
🚀 About the role
- Prepare financial statements: Prepare timely and accurate financial statements to document the performance of the business, develop shared understanding of our financial situation, and to inform executive decision-making. Document footnotes, disclosures, and supporting schedules to supplement financial reporting.
- Perform month-end and year-end close: Own and drive coordination of month end close process, including detailed analysis and reconciliation of all general ledger accounts, while ensuring compliance with US GAAP, local accounting requirements, and internal policies. Optimize to a fast and efficient close that can withstand business growth pressures.
- Manage chart of accounts: Ensure the chart of accounts is properly aligned to the nature of Nominal’s business, is comprehensive in nature, and informative in structure.
- Allocate costs: Develop managerial accounting processes to provide visibility into relevant cost centers. Implement and maintain charge codes to allocate costs to various teams, projects, customer accounts, and more, allowing the team to assess ROI.
- Oversee operational accounting: Manage Nominal’s operational accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and travel & expense. Manage the full accounts receivable and payable cycles, from invoicing to cash application. Maintain accurate customer master data and billing information.
- Assign revenue recognition: Ensure accurate and timely recognition of revenue in accordance with ASC 606 and company-defined policies. Review customer contracts and sales agreements to determine appropriate treatment. Maintain and communicate gross margin performance.
- Establish internal controls and policies: Institute and document internal accounting policies and procedures to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability. Implement lightweight, but effective, internal controls across key processes, including procure-to-pay and quote-to-cash.
- Manage cash / treasury: Oversee day-to-day cash operations and support treasury functions, including cash forecasting, optimizing cash flow, ensuring adequate liquidity, and executing internal controls over disbursements and bank transactions.
- Own financial systems and data integrity: Ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial data across systems. Work cross-functionally to improve integrations between accounting, billing, CRM, and expense management platforms.
- Coordinate external audits: Support the external audit process, and ensure alignment with GAAP standards. Ensure internal controls and policies are in compliance with SOX.
🔍 We're looking for someone with
- CPA certification: Certified Public Accountant with 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including time at a public accounting firm and/or high-growth startup. Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or a related field.
- Technical excellence: You have deep knowledge of US GAAP, with hands-on experience in financial reporting, audits, and accounting systems implementation. Familiarity with international accounting standards is a plus.
- Ownership mentality: You are excited by the challenge of owning the end-to-end accounting function. You combine holistic vision with attention to detail to both understand the big picture and execute on the specifics.
- Systems builder: You thrive when building and owning processes rather than inheriting fully-developed systems. You seek to automate and improve what exists, making it faster and easier to perform the same tasks over time.
- Dynamic leader & team player: You are able to build trusted relationships with internal teams (finance, sales, operations), collaborating for shared success. You’re a natural at leading and lifting those around you with a mix of humility, eagerness to learn, and empathy. You’re excited to be an integral part of an early Finance team.
⚡ Skills that supercharge us
- Accounting software fluency: Experience with common accounting and billing software platforms (e.g., NetSuite, Quickbooks, Ramp, Stripe, Bill, Coupa). Ideally you have experience supporting ERP implementations.
- B2B SaaS experience: Background at B2B SaaS firms that understands the typical accounting structures, margin profiles, KPIs / metrics, and more from high-growth, venture-backed software startups.
- Government contracts accounting knowledge: Familiarity with Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), as well as government contract types of firm fixed price, cost-plus, etc. Knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding allowable and unallowable costs.
✨ Benefits/Perks
- 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- 🚀 Professional development stipend
- ✈️ Annual company retreat
$100,000 - $165,000 a year
This job description is written to capture a range of experience levels from 4 years to 10+ years, which is why you’ll see a wide band listed. Your actual base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on a range of considerations, including job-related knowledge and skills, education, prior experience, and other business needs. The listed salary range represents an estimate for base compensation only. Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package. Eligible employees may also receive highly competitive equity grants in the form of stock options, allowing you to share in the company’s long-term success.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
