Panthalassa

Panthalassa

Senior Accountant

Portland, OR · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$125k-$180kDetected 12 days ago
AccountingForecastingBudgetingExcelProcess ImprovementProcurementERPLeadershipCommunicationAccounts PayableNetSuiteRenewable Energy

About the role

  • Panthalassa continues to expand and strengthen our internal finance and accounting capabilities as the company scales from R&D toward manufacturing and deployment.
  • This is a high-ownership operating role that goes beyond AP processing.
  • You will be responsible for making sure vendors are onboarded correctly, invoices are entered and routed cleanly, payments move through the right process, and transactions are coded accurately in our ERP.

Responsibilities

  • Own and support core accounting operations, including accounts payable,procure-to-pay, and month-end close workflows.
  • Manage vendor onboarding, vendor records, invoice intake, bill entry, approval routing, payment preparation, and payment follow-up.
  • Maintain clean, accurate financial data in NetSuite, including transaction coding, vendor records, reporting inputs, and process documentation.
  • Support timely and accurate month-end close, including reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaid expenses, account analysis, and supporting schedules.
  • Identify repetitive, manual, or error-prone workflows and propose practical ways to improve them using process improvement, automation, AI tools, better spreadsheet design, workflow software, or ERP configuration.
  • Support payment operations, including vendor questions, missing payments, invoice discrepancies, payment timing, and related issue resolution.
  • Support audit, tax, compliance, and other finance requests as needed.
  • Partner with finance and leadership, accounting leadership, and external accounting partners on technical accounting questions, controls, close tasks, and reporting needs.
  • Maintain an extremely high bar for accuracy, confidentiality, responsiveness, and ownership.
  • This is a high-ownership operating role that goes beyond AP processing. You will excel if you are a practical problem solver who can build and operate processes that ensure clean data, clear processes, and accurate books at scale.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of accounting, accounting operations, accounts payable, general ledger, or related finance operations experience.
  • Experience with accounts payable, vendor onboarding, payment processing, invoice coding, and month-end close support.
  • Ability to book journal entries and understand when to escalate more complex accounting questions.
  • Ability to understand business context and turn it into clear, repeatable accounting treatment.
  • Comfort working in spreadsheets and with financial data
  • Experience with NetSuite or another ERP system.
  • Strong accounting fundamentals and familiarity with U.S. GAAP.
  • Technology-forward, with strong judgment for using AI, automation, and modern tools to improve accounting workflows while preserving accuracy and controls.
  • you do not need to be a hardcore quant, but you should have strong number sense.
  • Strong Excel skills.
  • A hands-on, ownership-oriented mindset and willingness to do the work directly.
  • Comfort building and operating processes in a fast-moving, lean environment.
  • Desired Qualifications

Nice to have

  • NetSuite experience strongly preferred.

Skills

  • About Panthalassa
  • Strong communication skills with both internal stakeholders and external vendors.

Compensation

  • Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • We're all owners and if we're successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
  • A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners and dependents)
  • Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
  • Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA

Company info

  • We are looking for a hands-on accounting operator to own the accuracy, reliability, and responsiveness of our day-to-day accounting workflows.
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