Senior Staff Accountant

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

TITLE:                   Senior Staff Accountant         

 LOCATION:          Bellevue, WA, USA                      

TerraPower 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, TerraPower 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. TerraPower’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.

 TerraPower 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.  TerraPower 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. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Senior Staff Accountant

The Senior Staff Accountant will be responsible for overseeing invoice and payment processing, credit card reconciliation and preparing financial reports for month end. The successful candidate will be knowledgeable with direct, indirect and unallowable expenses and will demonstrate extensive knowledge in GAAP, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Microsoft Applications, and user experience in NetSuite, Concur, Stampli and Oracle Cloud. 

 Responsibilities

• Assist with accounts payable tasks including invoice tracking, recording, coding, approval and payment
• Review invoices in Stampli and NetSuite, ensure proper coding of GL/department/project codes
• Work closely with procurement and technical representatives to obtain required approvals
• Able to identify unallowable costs according to government rules and/or contractual terms
• Applies general knowledge of accounting/government policies and procedures when responding to written and verbal inquiries from stakeholders
• Manage disbursements to vendors, subcontractors, subrecipients
• Review and process employee expense reimbursements
• Review company owned credit cards monthly reconciliation
• Assist in the process of issuing manual checks, wire, ACH payments, void checks, positive pay
• Manage vendor relations, research and resolve variances or discrepancies in invoices
• Support general ledger accounting including account reconciliations and journal entry posting
• Track invoices subject to sales or use tax, prepare use tax calculation worksheet, and record use tax accrual on a monthly basis
• Monitors the accounts payable aging
• Prepare financial reports including Accounts Payable Aging, for month end
• Prepare and process 1099 forms and file with the IRS
• Maintain policies and procedure documentation for accounts payable accounting activities
• Work with stakeholders to identify area of improvements in Accounts Payable, and draft improvement proposals for management review

• Ability to perform moderately complex accounting tasks/analysis, categorize data for reporting and audit purpose
• Support Audits for allowable and unallowable costs
• Support new ERP system implementation

 Key Qualifications and Skills

• B.S. degree in Accounting or related field or the equivalent business-experience
• Minimum of 5 years work experience in an accounting environment
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are required
• Knowledge of NetSuite, Concur and Oracle Cloud is preferred
• Working knowledge of government grant and/or government contracts is preferred
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