Senior Accountant

We’re financing the future of energy

Crux is the capital platform for the clean economy. We modernize capital raising and deployment for clean energy and critical infrastructure with solutions across advisory, investments, technology, and intelligence.

Our team is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, policy, tech, and beyond. We have raised $77 million in capital from top investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing

Energy demand is growing for the first time in decades, driving an urgent need for more affordable and reliable electricity. More electricity requires new clean energy infrastructure and strong domestic supply chains for minerals and components as well as large amounts of capital.

Traditional project finance is opaque, fragmented, and analog. At Crux, we’re changing that. Through unmatched insights and expertise, white-glove service, purpose-built tools, and risk underwriting, we power a more prosperous, clean, and secure energy future.

We are scaling quickly and looking for team members who are eager to combine deep expertise with an AI- and tech-forward mindset.

The opportunity

We’re hiring a Senior Accountant to own the transactional layer of our accounting function: spend, payables, receivables, cash, and reconciliations across a growing group of entities. You will make sure the data flowing through our systems is accurate, complete, and trusted by the people who rely on it.

This is an ownership role. You will run your areas end to end, spot what is breaking before it becomes a problem, and build the processes and controls that let us scale. You will work closely with teams across Crux, so you need to be as comfortable coaching a coworker on expense policy as you are tying out a bank reconciliation.

You are detail-oriented but see the bigger picture, and you build systems that support long-term growth. You prioritize well in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment. You are comfortable in gray areas and take ownership even when the path forward is not fully defined.

AI is central to how our accounting team works. You will build and run AI-assisted workflows as a core part of this role.

You will report to our Senior Accounting Manager and work alongside a small, hands-on team that already has strong documentation and processes in place. We move quickly, and people who take ownership are given room to grow.

What you’ll do

• Spend management

  • Own Ramp and Navan administration: card setup and limits, transaction coding review, receipt and policy compliance, reimbursements and repayments, and first-line support for employee questions.

  • Set up coding options and spend controls ahead of time, so transactions are coded correctly from the start.

  • Keep expense policies and approval workflows clear, documented, and consistently followed across the company.

• Payables and receivables

  • Manage the AP process from invoice intake through payment, making sure bills are coded correctly, routed for approval, and paid accurately and on time.

  • Own cash application and AR aging, keeping receivables current, accurate, and visible to the team.

  • Maintain unbilled receivable schedules and track expected funding dates, tying both to incoming cash.

  • Help redesign our AR process around tax credit transaction timelines, building tracking and controls that connect expected funding to billing and cash.

• Close and reconciliations

  • Work alongside the accounting team on the monthly close, owning your assigned journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and checklist tasks.

  • Prepare assigned bank and balance sheet reconciliations, including spend platform to GL tie-outs, with clean, audit-ready support.

  • Record routine cash and intercompany entries across Crux’s entities using established processes.

  • Help the team prepare for the annual audit and respond to auditor requests.

  • Reconcile payroll entries to the GL each month.

• Systems and data

  • Own GL-to-subledger integrity for spend and AP: keep integrations running, catch sync breaks, and correct miscoding.

  • Keep department and account coding current and aligned with the company’s org structure as the business changes.

  • Lead process improvements that increase automation and accuracy, including AI-assisted reconciliations and workflows.

  • Partner with the accounting team and RevOps to keep deal data in HubSpot accurate and reconciled to the GL.

Your first priority is getting AP and cash running smoothly. From there, the role grows into additional areas, including fund and entity accounting.

What you bring

• Must-haves

  • 3 to 6 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least two years at a venture-backed or small, fast-moving startup.

  • Hands-on ownership of AP, reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close tasks.

  • Hands-on experience with modern spend management tools (Ramp, Brex, Navan, Expensify, or similar) and a cloud-based GL.

  • Exceptional reconciliation skills and comfort working with data across multiple connected systems.

  • Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills, including lookups and reconciliation workbooks.

  • Highly organized, with the discipline to follow a process and the judgment to improve it.

  • Clear, friendly communication with non-finance teams, and the confidence to hold people to policy.

  • Solid working knowledge of US GAAP and internal controls.

  • Hands-on experience building AI-assisted accounting workflows, and a builder’s instinct for automating repetitive work.

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.

• Nice-to-haves

  • Deep Ramp experience, including administration, card and policy setup, and accounting integrations.

  • Multi-entity or intercompany accounting experience.

  • Exposure to fund, partnership, or project accounting, or to clean energy, financial services, or a regulated broker-dealer.

  • Public accounting experience.

  • Experience with Rillet, Rippling, or HubSpot.

  • Experience building with Ai tools, such as projects, skills, or connectors.

What we bring

• Backing, traction & brand:

  • We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best venture and strategic investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Ardent Venture Partners, Pattern, Clearway, EDFR, Intersect, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

  • $500m warehouse facility from Nuveen to invest in clean energy.

  • Have been profitable and are growing exponentially

  • We have closed over 180+ transactions in just the last 2 years, facilitating billions of dollars of capital flowing into renewables projects

• Culture & working dynamic

  • Remote-first operating model: Work from anywhere in the US and Canada, or work from one of our optional offices in DC, NYC, Denver, & SF. Co-working pod in Seattle.

  • High growth & high ownership culture: We grow quickly by giving extremely talented people a lot of responsibility.

  • Best of financial services & technology: We have brought together a team that are experts in clean energy finance, and the best technologies. Use your expertise while getting to be on the cutting edge of applying AI to your day and your clients’ experience.

  • Regular team offsites: We sustain culture by bringing the entire company together 2 times a year. Individual teams may also meet up more frequently.

• Benefits

  • Healthcare: We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 80% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant.

  • Dental & vision: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 80% for dependents (each), if relevant.

  • Family forming & fertility support

  • Parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

  • Holidays: 10 company holidays per year.

  • Paid time off: 20 days per year.

  • 401k: account fees supported by Crux.
    

• Compensation:

  • Compensation: $120,000 - $140,000 base salary

  • Company wide bonus: tied to revenue goals.

  • Stock options in a rapidly growing company.
    
    Values

    • Care for each other: We want to work on a team where people support each other - in their growth, in their work, and towards our shared mission. When we do that, we have fun.

    • Build and improve rapidly: We move quickly. To do that, we focus, consistently ask ourselves if we are prioritizing the right things, and execute them as best as possible.

    • Focus unremittingly on customers: Our first obligation is to our customers and partners, and we keep their needs front and center in everything we do.

    • Demonstrate ownership: We are all owners of Crux. This is our team, our company, our product and we show that to each other.

    • Convene a team that reflects the breadth of experiences in the country: We’re building a team with a wide range of backgrounds and a culture where everyone can thrive.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.