UK remote
Financial Accountant
About this role
About Volta Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up.
We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds. About the Role This is not a traditional accounting role focused on maintaining legacy systems. At Volta, you will help build the finance function from first principles, contributing to the design of processes, controls, and reporting in a business deploying capital at global scale. Working closely with the Senior Financial Accountant and the wider Financial Accounting and Transactional Function, you will play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting while supporting the build-out of a scalable, best-in-class accounting environment across multiple jurisdictions.
Key Responsibilities Support the execution of the monthly financial close Prepare and post accrual, prepayment, payroll, capex, revenue, and FX entries, among others Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for review Cash, AR, AP, fixed assets, other payables and receivables, equity Support transactional processing Approvals, audit trail, and clean ledgers Intercompany accounting and cross charges Support internal financial reporting Assist in monthly reporting packages Support the analysis of variance to budget and prior periods Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and risks Assist management with ad hoc reporting and partner with FP&A and other teams to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting Assist in building and documenting financial controls, accounting policies, and governance frameworks Track capital spend and asset capitalization Maintain fixed asset register Support external reporting Prepare U.S.