Financial Accountant

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.

• 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 review
  • Cash, AR, AP, fixed assets, other payables and receivables, equity
• Support transactional processing
  • Approvals, audit trail, and clean ledgers
  • Intercompany accounting and cross charges
• Support internal financial reporting
  • Assist 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 capitalization
  • Maintain fixed asset register
• Support external reporting
  • Prepare 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

• 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

• Build, not maintain: Help create processes and controls from scratch
• Operate at scale: Work in an environment where decisions impact significant capital deployment
• High ownership: Direct exposure to senior leadership
• Low bureaucracy: Fast decision-making and clear accountability
• REQ-241

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.

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