Terabase Energy
Assistant Controller
Berkeley, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- If all of this piques your interest, we'd love to hear from you!
- Position Overview As the Assistant Controller, you will oversee the company's full accounting operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and scalability across all financial processes.
- This role is ideal for a detail-oriented and forward-thinking accounting leader with experience in cost/manufacturing accounting, audits, consolidated financial reporting, and operating in multi-jurisdictional environments.
Responsibilities
- Accounting Leadership & Operations Lead and manage the day-to-day accounting function, ensuring accurate and timely financial close processes across multiple entities and international jurisdictions.
- Partner closely with our Cost Accountant and Operations to provide financial insight into cost drivers, efficiency initiatives, and product-level profitability.
- Lead preparation for external audits, act as a key liaison with auditors, and implement recommendations to improve financial accuracy and efficiency.
- Work with contractors to support tax and regulatory filings in multiple jurisdictions, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
- Support Sales and external specialist on contract sales tax considerations, reporting, filling and remittance.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and implement scalable, technology-enabled solutions- specifically leveraging AI where possible.
- Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing accounting team, fostering a culture of accountability, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with FP&A, Operations, Engineering, and Commercial teams to ensure financial clarity, cross-functional alignment, and seamless flow of financial data.
- Support strategic initiatives, including global expansion, system enhancements and integrations, utilization and headcount management, and future M&A integration.
Requirements
- Requirements Required Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- Prior experience with NetSuite.
Nice to have
- Preferred Experience in solar, renewable energy, manufacturing, hardware, or high-growth scale-up environments.
Compensation
- Prepare, review, and deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements.
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets, forecasts, and management reporting packages; monitor actuals versus budget and investigate significant variances.
Benefits
- Generous time off and holiday policy
- Flexible time off
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Home office set up allowance
Company info
- At Terabase Energy, we believe that digitalization and automation will drive the next wave of innovation and cost reduction in large scale solar.
- To fully unlock the potential of this opportunity, Terabase is developing an interconnected software and construction automation platform.
- We work alongside project developers, owners, and engineering & construction firms to support the design, optimization, and construction of huge solar projects around the world.
- Our team is a blend of solar-industry veterans and newbies, thought-leaders, dreamers, software, electrical and mechanical engineers, coders, product managers, project managers, and sales and marketing professionals.
- We are based in Northern California, with several other offices in the United States and around the world.
- You will manage the accounting team, strengthen financial controls, and optimize systems to support a high-growth, global business.
- You will bring rigor, structure, and strategic insight to a rapidly expanding organization, partnering closely with FP&A, Operations, and cross-functional leaders to drive financial transparency, operational efficiency, and global scalability.
Equal opportunity
- Terabase is an equal opportunity employer.
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