Accountant

We are a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone.

Since Helion's founding in 2013, we have raised over $600 million from investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group to propel us forward. Our last prototype, Trenta, completed 10,000 high-power pulses and reached plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius (9 keV).

Now we are working toward Polaris, which will be the first machine to demonstrate electricity from fusion, making this a great time to join Helion! Bring your skills, experiences, and determination to make a difference in the world. Together, we can make a future with unlimited clean electricity from fusion a reality.

What You Will Be Doing

As our Accountant, you will play an important role in the growth of our company. You’ll support our overall accounting ledger integrity and GAAP compliance, day-to-day accounting operations, month-end closing activities and statutory filings. You will partner with Accountants and Controller in building and managing accounting principles and procedures especially in accounts payable, fixed asset, prepaid expenditure, accrual accounting cycles and internal controls. Your expertise will ensure accurate accounting in expensing or capitalizing decisions, inventory or expense decisions, internal cost center determination and vendor accounting management. You will report to the Director of Finance and work at our Everett, WA office.

• Accounting Operations: Complete and review entries for accounts payable ensuring that expenses are charged to appropriate accounts and cost centers; record vendor invoices accurately and in a timely manner; schedule and prepare checks, wires, electronic funds transfers, and daily bank reconciliations. Maintain accounts, records, and supporting documentation in various general accounting functions. Review and process employees company credit card receipt submissions and expense reports, coordinate employee, vendor and other stakeholder communications for accounting related matters.
• Reporting: Support and drive month-end close processes, including preparing journal entries, monthly accruals, prepaid expense recognitions and amortizations, fixed asset additions and depreciations and balance sheet reconciliations. Support financial statement and ad-hoc reporting preparations.
• Compliance: Support, lead and collaborate in Federal, WA state local tax and other statutory filings. Maintain our electronic invoice filing system and W9 records in partnership with Accountants and Procurement. Seek ways to improve processes and internal controls, communicate findings, make recommendations, and facilitate change

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of accounting experience in the accounts payable management/general ledger accounting/financial reporting area, preferably with a background in manufacturing, energy, or technology industries
• Knowledge of current GAAP and regulatory requirement
• Comfortable working with individuals at all organizational levels

Compensation and Benefits

At Helion, we are committed to fostering a fair and equitable environment in every aspect of our operations, including compensation. We ensure all our roles are competitively benchmarked and our total compensation package includes a base salary, comprehensive benefits, and equity grants, giving you a true stake in Helion's success. Final compensation is determined through a holistic evaluation of your experience, qualifications, and our commitment to maintaining internal equity, ensuring fairness and transparency across our teams.

This is an exempt salaried role.

Annual Base Pay

$90,000 - $128,000 USD

Benefits

Our total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
• 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
• 10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
• Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
• Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
• Annual wellness stipend

NOTE: Underrepresented people are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the job's requirements. We believe in hiring people, not checklists, and encourage you to apply even if you do not check all of the boxes. If this job isn't the one, we have many other openings that may be a fit.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. If we reach out to you to begin an interview process, we will also ask if you require any reasonable accommodation at that time.