# Accounting Lead

Nexthop AI is a fast-growing AI infrastructure company building high-performance networking products and solutions for the world’s leading cloud operators, including hyperscalers and NeoClouds. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Santa Clara, Nexthop AI offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced leaders. We are looking for hands-on, collaborative team members who want to help shape the future of AI infrastructure in a dynamic startup environment where ownership, innovation, flexibility, and impact are highly valued. Role summary The Accounting lead role oversees core financial operations, ensuring accurate record-keeping, timely vendor disbursements, compliant month-end closing, and strong internal controls. Coordinate accounting and accounts payable staff, streamline payment workflows, and maintain general ledger integrity. This is a hands-on role for someone who builds scalable processes and controls as the company grows. Key responsibilities Own procure-to-pay: vendor onboarding, PO matching, approval workflows, payment runs, expense reimbursements and 1099 reporting. Oversees invoice processing, vendor reconciliations, resolves billing discrepancies, handles vendor r

- **Id**: 3640433
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nexthop-systems-accounting-lead>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T21:30:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:36:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2834
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Servers & Data Center Hardware, Network Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 1954274
- **Name**: Nexthop Systems
- **Domain**: nexthop.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nexthop-ai>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0.3
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 237
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T21:30:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23; Filings 12m: 23

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 237
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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