Staff Accountant

Thanks for your interest in Oklo!  We are searching for a Staff Accountant to join our team.

Position Description:

The Staff Accountant will play a key role in the day-to-day operations and execution of accounting processes, as well as the refinement of accounting process and strategy to support Oklo’s month-end close. This role will require involvement in bookkeeping responsibilities across accounts payable, billing, procurement, spend and expense, fixed asset identification, and lease accounting maintenance. The Staff Accountant will be responsible for the preparation of accrual and prepaid schedules as well as preparing monthly reconciliation workbooks.

A second critical aspect of this role will be monthly and as needed internal control execution to support Oklo’s SOX environment as it continues to grow as a public company. This will include supporting requests and inquiries from Oklo’s external auditor as well as supporting needs of the internal audit function where needed. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering on key monthly and quarterly close duties and effectively communicating processes both internally with relevant stakeholders and externally with Oklo vendors. The ability to stay organized and deliver on key accounting close milestones will be a critical success factor.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Ownership of daily invoice review through the Ramp spend and expense platform. Reviewing spend transactions for appropriate classification.
• Monthly communications with vendors where appropriate to determine accrual accounting needs for each month- and quarter-end close
• Ensure timely delivery of the close package items under your umbrella of responsibility. Input and track close deliverables in the FloQast close management tool
• Work with internal and external audit teams to resolve audit requests and provide sufficient documentation for Oklo accounting processes.
• Assist with Quarterly DOE cost tracking and reporting requirements such as grant fund and cost share tracking
• Review of employee travel and expense reimbursements
• As the Company grows, ensure your role and scope of work also expands to support the growing needs of the accounting and non-accounting functions.
• Strong networking and relationship building will be critical as successful candidate will have to work with internal and external stakeholders to perform duties
• Responsible for preparing vendor payments
• Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures, and instructions
• Conform with all safety rules and use all appropriate safety equipment
• Willing to work extended hours during month-end and quarter-end close cycles
• Oklo is a startup! Job scope and responsibilities will rapidly evolve as the Company progresses its operational milestones

Critical for Oklo:

• Passionate about clean energy
• Passionate about making advanced fission a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly
• Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high iterative startup environment
• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving while not leaning only on what has been done before
• Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems
• An excellent write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well! 
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics or business
• Two to three years general accounting experience
• Preferred remote location: U.S. Central or Mountain Time Zone

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience using NetSuite accounting software
• Big 4 Preferred, CPA is a plus
• Master’s degree in accountancy
• Fast growth startup or public company experience

Who you are:

A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance, but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.

Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.

A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren’t about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.

An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.

Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open-ended problems which may change day-by-day.

Detail-oriented: This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.

About Oklo compensation:

Salary: $85,000-$105,000

Salary may fall outside of the range provided and will be dependent on applicant experience.

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

About Oklo Inc.:  Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.