General Ledger Accountant

About Etched
Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.

Job Summary
We are hiring a General Ledger Accountant, Payroll to own critical elements of our financial close and ensure accurate accounting for payroll, benefits, and related compensation expenses. This role sits at the intersection of People Operations and Accounting, with direct ownership over payroll accruals, reconciliations, compliance, and internal controls.

You will partner closely with People Ops and Finance to ensure compensation activity is accurately recorded in the general ledger and supported by strong documentation and controls. You will own the payroll and benefits close process while helping design systems and workflows that scale as the company grows across entities and jurisdictions. This is a hands-on role requiring strong attention to detail, comfort operating in a fast-scaling environment, and a clear understanding of how payroll and benefits activity impacts financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and lead the payroll and benefits accounting close process, ensuring accurate accruals, reconciliations, reporting, and strong internal controls over employee compensation and related expenses

• Reconcile payroll reports from third-party providers to the general ledger

• Prepare and post payroll journal entries, including accruals for bonuses, commissions, and PTO

• Reconcile benefits portal data to payroll deductions

• Review and reconcile carrier invoices to ensure accuracy of employer and employee contributions

• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between HRIS, payroll providers, benefits portals, and ERP

• Prepare payroll-related account reconciliations and maintain supporting documentation

• Maintain organized payroll and benefits documentation to support internal reviews and audits

• Ensure payroll changes, including new hires, terminations, compensation updates, and bonus payments, have proper approval and supporting documentation

• Maintain up-to-date process documentation for payroll and benefits workflows

• Support periodic internal control reviews and testing