Cost Accountant - Data Center Assets

Skills

About the Role

You will build and operate cost-accounting processes for data center hardware. You will manage inventory, bills of materials, landed costs, component assembly, Construction-in-Progress, and fixed-asset capitalization. You will reconcile subledgers, support month-end close and reporting, develop operating procedures and metrics, and collaborate with operations, engineering, supply chain, FP&A, and business operations to automate ERP workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field.
• 2–4+ years of progressive cost accounting experience in manufacturing, data centers, or hardware infrastructure.
• Experience in a high-growth startup environment and building processes, policies, or systems from the ground up.
• Understanding of US GAAP for landed costs, inventory valuation, Construction-in-Progress, and ASC 360 fixed-asset capitalization.
• Experience with enterprise ERPs; NetSuite is highly preferred.
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including data modeling and large-dataset manipulation.
• Ability to work Monday through Friday in the Las Vegas headquarters office.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Manage item creation and associated accounting implications while ensuring master-data accuracy.
• Manage and review bills of materials for server and rack configurations.
• Consolidate inventory and non-inventory items for tracking and reporting.
• Oversee standard costing, variance analysis, overhead allocation, and month-end reconciliations.
• Plan and execute physical counts and cycle counts and assess inventory for impairment, obsolescence, and shrinkage.
• Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger.
• Track and account for hardware components assembled into AI infrastructure racks.
• Manage accounting for hardware movements across staging, assembly, deployment, and data center locations.
• Process assembly-build transactions for infrastructure hardware deployment.
• Move costs from raw inventory to Construction-in-Progress and capitalize them as fixed assets when placed in service.
• Maintain perpetual inventory systems and monthly reconciliations.
• Develop and maintain landed-cost allocation and capitalization methodologies.
• Analyze and reconcile freight, tariff, customs, and insurance invoices.
• Architect and continuously improve the cost-accounting function.
• Design, document, and implement procedures for inventory tracking, assembly builds, and asset deployment.
• Report unit economics for product offerings.
• Assist with forecasting, financial reporting, margin reporting, and break-even analysis.
• Develop decision-support metrics.
• Partner with data center operations and hardware engineering on build schedules, component tracking, and asset capitalization timing.
• Collaborate with supply chain on receiving processes, vendor pricing validation, and freight and tariff accruals.
• Design, test, and implement automated ERP workflows for assembly, landed costs, and BOM tracking.

Benefits

• Stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
• Company health savings account contributions
• 100% paid short-term and long-term disability insurance for employees
• Life and voluntary supplemental insurance options
• Pet and legal insurance options
• Supplementary health benefits, including discounted virtual healthcare appointments and serious illness support
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave
• In-office perks