Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Bellevue, WA

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well‑being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications all for significant human health benefits.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward‑thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Senior Accountant – This role will be primarily responsible for assisting the Senior Fixed Asset Manager in the accurate accounting and reporting of fixed assets. This includes government‑funded properties and commercial assets, as well as monitoring the fixed assets of the company from acquisition, work‑in‑process (WIP), and assets that are placed into operation, up to the time they are disposed, sold, and transferred.

The role will work cross‑functionally with procurement, lab personnel, IT, and others on updating and verifying asset tracking information in the asset database. The successful candidate will demonstrate extensive knowledge in GAAP. Additionally, this role will support other accounting responsibilities, including balance sheet reconciliation. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and be comfortable working with operations team/non‑accounting professionals and dealing with complex accounting/project codes/org codes.

• Perform regular physical inventory counts of fixed assets and manage the asset tagging process
• Process asset addition, retirements, cost adjustments, capitalization
• Maintain a detailed schedule of work in process fixed assets and coordinate with purchase/receiving managers to provide monthly update on the status. Analyze WIP assets by projects, capitalize, and place assets in service when projects are complete
• Track all assets on books by location and summarize transfer of assets from one location to another by quarter
• Perform periodic impairment reviews for tangible and intangible assets
• Identify potential obsolescence of fixed assets, fully depreciated assets; provide recommendations to management regarding the disposal (or not) of fixed assets
• Perform analysis related to fixed assets; analyze aging assets and prepare financial metrics on assets for monthly trial balance review
• Prepare audit schedules for fixed assets and support audit inquiries
• Prepare compliance reporting such as form SF‑428 to DOE
• Support property insurance related activities such as preparation of the property schedule of value (SOV), location, cost basis, replacement value
• Maintain schedules to support tax filing requirements, (i.e., property tax, sales/use tax, B&O tax)
• Manage all aspects of maintaining and recording fixed assets. Analyze asset requests to ensure proper classification as a capital asset at the onset of purchase order (PO) stage, and when invoices…