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# Accounting Manager at Base Power Company

- **Company:** [Base Power Company](https://feeny.ai/companies/base-power-company)
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/base-power/3b7b2257-ae19-4393-a467-13018ad0dcee/application

**Skills:** US GAAP, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, ERP Systems, Journal Entries, Reconciliations, FASB Codification, Renewable Energy Accounting, Utility Accounting, Public Accounting Experience

> The Accounting Manager leads daily accounting operations, including general ledger, close activities, and financial reporting. This role involves managing ERP systems, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, and mentoring the accounting team to support business growth.

## Job description

## ABOUT BASE

Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

The Accounting Manager role at Base will be critical in the development of our accounting operations. Accounting owns the end-to-end financial reporting process, ensuring compliant, accurate and timely financial data is available to decision makers. This role will lead the general ledger functions, manage close activities and timelines, and support the evolution of our accounting systems. The accounting needs are growing rapidly, making this a unique opportunity to be involved early in key business decisions and form partnerships with other functional leads.

## What You'll Do

- Lead and manage the day to day operations of the accounting department, including general ledger, cash management, accounts payable, travel & expense, and financial reporting.
- Oversee period end close processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, while accelerating the close timeline.
- Prepare and review journal entries and reconciliations, ensuring high quality supporting documentation.
- Draft technical accounting memorandums in accordance with FASB codification to support unique and complex reporting matters.
- Manage general ledger coding procedures, ensuring proper classification, use of data attributes, and accounting treatment of transactions.
- Conduct thorough analyzes of financial data to identify discrepancies, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Enhance the company’s financial systems, including ERP, Payroll, Payables, and T&E to enable operational efficiencies that scale.
- Establish, document, implement, and improve on compliant accounting policies and procedures.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to the accounting team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
- Support the accounting department in projects and strategic initiatives.
- Maintain a “no job to small” mentality, being able to perform other procedures within the general scope of this role.

## What You'll Bring

- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in accounting, demonstrating advanced knowledge of accounting principles under US GAAP.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement accounting systems, including ERP.
- Mix of public and private accounting experience preferred, bonus if in the renewable energy or utility space.

## About The Team

Base is scaling a hardware‑plus‑energy business and our accounting team builds the financial foundation that makes that scale possible. The team designs and runs the systems that turn manufacturing activity, customer contracts, and energy market participation into accurate, decision-ready financials - so leadership knows exactly where we’re making money, where we’re not, and how fast we can grow. This work directly shapes pricing, investment, and operational strategy, not after the fact but in real time as the company evolves. An exceptional candidate will be excited to build principles-first processes in a complex business and have a clear line of sight from debits and credits to the decisions that determine Base’s trajectory.

Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.

## OUR VALUES

- First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
- Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
- Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.
- Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.
- Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.
- Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.

DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE AT BASE.

## About Base Power Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Base Power is a technology-driven energy provider deploying a network of distributed home batteries in Texas to provide reliable, affordable backup power and grid-balancing services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $1.3B+ raised to date)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Zach Dell (CEO & Co-Founder), Justin Lopas (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Energy Technology (Energy-as-a-Service, Grid Storage, Distributed Energy)
- **Target customers**: B2C (Texas homeowners), B2G (grid operators / ERCOT)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build the future of American power." — The company aims to protect American families from outages, strengthen the aging U.S. grid, and move toward energy abundance by deploying a large-scale network of home batteries.

## Products & Services
- **Home Battery + Energy Membership**: A vertically integrated service where Base installs a large battery (25–50 kWh) at a customer's home for a low one-time fee ($695–$995). Customers pay a fixed energy rate (8–4¢/kWh) and a small monthly membership ($19–$29/mo). Base earns revenue from the grid (grid-balancing services), not from customer bills, enabling rates legally guaranteed to stay below market average. The system provides whole-home backup, protecting against 97% of outages.
- **Grid Services Platform**: Proprietary software that orchestrates the distributed battery network — charging when demand is low and discharging when the grid needs support — generating revenue and grid resilience.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company with $1.3B+ total funding)
- **Key Metric (Funding)**:
  - **Series A** (May 2024): $68M led by Thrive Capital
  - **Series B** (April 2025): $200M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and others
  - **Series C** (November 2025): $1.0B from 26 investors
  - **Total raised**: ~$1.27B (converted from 1,268,000,000)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (also key talent source: 42 former Tesla employees, 6 from SpaceX, 4 from Anduril Industries)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - **Headcount**: 266 (as of mid-2026), with **+186.4% YoY growth** and a rapid monthly growth rate of +12.6%
  - Named one of **TIME's 10 most influential energy companies of 2026**
  - Operating in 5 countries (primarily US, with presence in Canada, Philippines, France, India)
  - 100+ active job postings with +104% increase YoY
  - 12,500+ batteries installed; serving thousands of monthly customers
  - CEO cited in the careers page as saying the company has 400+ team members ("400+" likely includes contractors and field installation/service workforce)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Model**: Base designs, manufactures, and installs every battery system itself, controlling the full stack from hardware through software to field operations.
- **Unique Business Model / No-Customer-Profit**: Base earns revenue from grid balancing, not from customer energy bills. This allows guaranteed-below-market rates and a low-cost battery membership, making it dramatically cheaper than competitors (e.g., Tesla Powerwall equivalents).
- **Strong Investor and Talent Backing**: World-class VC backing combined with a heavy talent influx from Tesla, SpaceX, and Anduril (companies known for high-velocity hardware/software execution).
- **Massive Capital Advantage**: $1B+ Series C provides a significant moat for scaling hardware production, dealer network, and software.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale distribution in Texas**: Continue deploying home batteries at a rapid pace across Texas, entering new zip codes and neighborhoods.
- **Grid partnership expansion**: Deepen relationships with ERCOT to expand the value of grid-balancing services.
- **Product development**: Improve battery technology (safety, capacity, cost), increase whole-home backup coverage (currently 97%), and develop new hardware/firmware generations.
- **Geographic expansion**: potential to move beyond Texas into other states (currently operating in 5 countries for support functions, but service is Texas-focused).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "intense, fast-paced, and deeply mission-driven." The company demands high output, ownership, and a bias toward action. It's explicitly stated as "not for everyone, and that's by design." This is a high-ownership, low-ambiguity environment.
- **Work Model**: **On-site at Base HQ in Austin, Texas.** Proximity to the product and team is central to how they move fast. "Do I need to be based in Texas? Yes."
- **Hiring Speed**: Fast process — aim for 1st conversation to offer in ~2 weeks.
- **Interview Process**: 3-4 hour on-site including technical assessments and behavioral/team conversations. Focus on "how [you] approach problems, communicate tradeoffs, and collaborate."
- **Non-traditional backgrounds**: Explicitly welcome: "We care about what you've built and how you think, not the logos on your resume. Some of our best people came from non-traditional paths."
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on hardware + software + field operations. Talent sources heavily from Tesla, Anduril, SpaceX — firms known for hardcore engineering and manufacturing excellence. Roles span hardware engineering, firmware, software, manufacturing, field installation/service, operations, growth, and design.
- **Team Composition**: ~29% of employees are in technical roles; ~15% in operations; significant representation of trades workers (11).
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on physical infrastructure deployed at scale; chance to contribute meaningfully to grid modernization and American energy resilience.

## Sources
1. [Base Power Careers Page](https://www.basepowercompany.com/careers)
2. [Base Power About Page](https://www.basepowercompany.com/about)
3. [Base Power Home Page (Product & Pricing)](https://www.basepowercompany.com/)
4. [Base Power LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/basepowercompany)
5. [Base Power Open Roles (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/base-power)

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