Financial Accountant
Role Summary
Join Volta as a Financial Accountant in London, shaping a cutting-edge finance function in an AI infrastructure company.
About the Organisation
Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.
This is not a traditional accounting role focused on maintaining legacy systems.
At Volta, you will help build the finance function from first principles, contributing to the design of processes, controls, and reporting in a business deploying capital at global scale.
Working closely with the Senior Financial Accountant and the wider Financial Accounting and Transactional Function, you will play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting while supporting the build-out of a scalable, best-in-class accounting environment across multiple jurisdictions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the execution of the monthly financial close
- Prepare and post accrual, prepayment, payroll, capex, revenue, and FX entries, among others
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for reviewCash, AR, AP, fixed assets, other payables and receivables, equity
- Support transactional processingApprovals, audit trail, and clean ledgers
- Intercompany accounting and cross charges
- Support internal financial reportingAssist in monthly reporting packages
- Support the analysis of variance to budget and prior periods
- Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and risks
- Assist management with ad hoc reporting and partner with FP&A and other teams to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting
- Assist in building and documenting financial controls, accounting policies, and governance frameworks
- Track capital spend and asset capitalizationMaintain fixed asset register
- Support external reportingPrepare U.S. GAAP (and IFRS where applicable) external financial statements
- Support external audits and act as a key point of contact for auditors
- Prepare support for auditors
- Contribute to the implementation and optimization of ERP/accounting systems
- Assist with tax compliance, indirect tax (e.g., VAT/sales tax) returns, and regulatory filings across jurisdictions
- Maintain and enhance the general ledger and chart of accounts
Minimum Requirements
- CPA (or equivalent)
- Audit background
- 2–5 years of post-qualification experience
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including U.S. GAAP (IFRS exposure is a plus)
- Experience with month-end close and financial reporting
- High attention to detail and strong analytical skills
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-growth, capital-intensive environment
- Strong Excel skills; ERP experience is a plus
- Experience in infrastructure, energy, or data center environments
- Exposure to multi-entity, international accounting environments
- Experience in a startup or scale-up environment
Working Conditions
At Volta, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted and able to grow. We're building a company where you can make an impact, keep a healthy balance between work and life, and build a career you're proud of.
As a global team, we do our best to provide great benefits wherever you're based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations, we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.
- Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary
- Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success
- Retirement/pension contributions
- Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits
- Generous number of vacation days each year
Eligibility Criteria
The position is open to international applicants, but specific eligibility criteria regarding visa sponsorship are not stated.
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