Accountant

Number of employees

340

Everett, WA, United States

Posted on: 2025-10-30

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

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 $1 billion from long-time investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group and new investors SoftBank and Lightspeed 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're turning up operations for Polaris, and working towards delivering the world's first fusion power plant. 

More than ever, it's a pivotal time to join us and have the opportunity to solve real challenges to create a better energy future. You will see first-hand how we value urgency, rigor, ownership, and hard truths, knowing it will take each to do what no one has before. Joining us, you will push the boundaries of what's possible and transform humanity for the better - because the world can't wait.

About Helion

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 $1 billion from long-time investors such as Sam Altman, Mithril, and Capricorn Investment Group as well as new investors SoftBank and Lightspeed 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). We are now operating Polaris, our next prototype on the path to the world's first fusion power plant. 

This is a pivotal time to join Helion. You will tackle real-world challenges with a team that prizes urgency, rigor, ownership, and a commitment to delivering hard truths – values essential to achieving what no one has before. Together, we will change the future of energy, because the world can't wait.

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. This is an onsite role that reports directly to Director of Finance at our Everett, WA office.

You Will:

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Required Skills:

  • 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 

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Total Compensation and Benefits

Helion's compensation package includes a competitively benchmarked base salary, meaningful equity grants, and comprehensive benefits. Final compensation is determined through a holistic evaluation of your experience, qualifications, and our commitment to internal equity - ensuring fairness and transparency across our teams. We are committed to fostering a fair and equitable environment in every aspect of our operations, including compensation.

This is an exempt salaried role.

Annual Base Pay
$84,536$111,935 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  

Helion is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.

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