Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting

Thanks for your interest in Oklo!  We are searching for a Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting to join our team.

Position Description

The Senior Accountant will play a key role in supporting Oklo’s financial reporting and accounting function. Reporting to the Financial Reporting Manager, this role will assist with the preparation and execution of Oklo’s SEC reporting requirements, including quarterly and annual financial statements and related disclosures. Other responsibilities include preparing supporting schedules and tie-outs, assisting with technical accounting research, supporting month-end and quarter-end close activities, executing internal controls, and coordinating with internal and external audit teams. The ability to produce accurate, well-supported work while managing key close and SEC reporting deadlines will be a critical success factor. These tasks will require regular interaction with members of the finance and accounting team, cross-functional business partners, third-party advisors, and external and internal auditors.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Prepare and support quarterly and annual SEC reporting, including Form 10-Q and Form 10-K financial statements, footnotes, supporting schedules, and related reporting packages.
• Perform detailed tie-outs of financial statements and disclosures to the general ledger, supporting workpapers, and source documentation, and prepare quarterly SEC and US GAAP disclosure checklists.
• Prepare and maintain financial reporting workpapers for assigned areas, including statements of cash flows, earnings per share, stock-based compensation, equity, leases, and other reporting matters.
• Assist with technical accounting research and preparation of accounting analyses and memoranda for new transactions, contracts, and accounting standards, including monitoring new FASB guidance and evaluating potential impacts to Oklo’s accounting and financial reporting.
• Assist with month-end and quarter-end close procedures, including journal entries, account reconciliations, consolidation-related schedules, flux analysis, and other analytical procedures.
• Perform internal controls in accordance with SOX requirements and maintain complete and organized supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with external and internal auditors by preparing requested schedules, supporting documentation, and responses to audit inquiries.
• Support equity accounting and reporting, including stock-based compensation and other equity transactions, and assist with annual and interim accounting assessments such as impairment analyses and other recurring technical accounting matters.
• Partner with accounting, finance, legal, payroll, equity administration, and other cross-functional teams to obtain information required for accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting processes, workpapers, and controls to increase accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field
• Three to five years including recent public accounting experience with focus on SEC registrants 
• Strong familiarity with ASC literature; proven ability to research technical accounting topics
• Proven project management experience
• Active CPA

Bonus Qualifications:

• Big 4 audit experience is highly preferred 
• Master’s degree in accountancy preferred
• Fast growth startup or public company experience
• Preferred remote location: U.S. Mountain or Central time zones

Competencies

We are looking for someone that is:

• Analytical—the individual synthesizes complex or diverse information
• Process and public company oriented
• Pro-Active – as Oklo’s business evolves we will want to be thinking about the accounting policy and financial reporting implications well ahead of time
• Problem solving—the individual identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers and analyzes information skillfully
• Oral communication—the individual speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, demonstrates group presentation skills, and conducts productive meetings
• Organization—the individual monitors a wide range of accounting activities and ensures the execution of routine processes
• Quality management—the individual looks for ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness
• Judgment—the individual displays willingness to make decisions, exhibits sound and accurate judgment and makes timely decisions
• Planning/organizing—the individual prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans

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, highly 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 writer in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well! 
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally

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 travel requirements:

Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

About Oklo compensation:

Salary: $90,000-$110,000

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, bonuses, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance (with employer contribution), HSA, FSA, flexible work hours, wellness credits, and other benefits.

This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.

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.

#CHOP: Oklo’s Values
Collaboration: We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes.
Humility: We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world. We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition.
Ownership: We take pride in what we do and how we do it. We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through  to completion. We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
Pathfinding: We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.