Senior Accountant – Bay Area, Denver, or Atlanta
Bandwidth IG, LLC (“BIG Fiber”) Senior Accountant – Bay Area, Denver, or Atlanta
BIG Fiber builds and operates mission-critical fiber infrastructure that underpins the world’s most innovative companies throughout Northern California the San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Atlanta and the Hillsboro area of Greater Portland, Oregon. We’re a fast-growing, nimble company with the agility of a start-up and the vision to transform how critical network assets are delivered and managed.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Accountant who wants real ownership.
This is a visible, high-trust role in a lean, fast-growing company. You’ll sit at the center of dayto-day operations, partnering directly with the Controller to scale and elevate the accounting function.
This role is best suited for someone who enjoys improving how accounting systems work, not just completing tasks. You’ll be comfortable understanding the system, making it better, and helping ensure operations are reliable over time.
The Role
Reporting to the Controller, you will take full ownership of operational accounting across AR, AP, billing, and expense-related processes. This includes executing the full lifecycle of customer billing, from contract setup through collection.
Your work will directly drive the quality and reliability of the month-end close by ensuring all underlying transactions are accurate, properly coded, and fully reconciled.
You will oversee and coordinate with the outsourced PH team, providing guidance, review, and direction to ensure workflows are executed consistently and issues are identified and resolved proactively.
What You’ll Own
Day-to-Day Accounting Operations
You’ll be the anchor of accounting operations:
- Execute monthly customer billing for contract-based services, ensuring accuracy and alignment with contract terms
- Serve as primary point of contact for customer billing inquiries and vendor discrepancies
- Manage AR and AP workflows, including reviewing and guiding work produced by outsourced team members to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Manage end‑to‑end procurement and inventory accounting activities
Month-End Support & Financial Insight
- Own monthly recurring revenue reporting, ensuring alignment with contract-based customer billing
- Ensure all AR and AP activity is complete, accurate, and properly supported ahead ofclose
- Review and prepare select journal entries (accruals, billing-related adjustments)
- Perform flux analysis and provide initial review of variances
- Partner with the Controller to support a timely and well-supported close by maintaining high-quality underlying data
Qualifications
Required
- 5–7+ years of progressive accounting experience with strong GAAP foundation
- Experience owning GL areas and assisting month-end close
- Hands-on experience with customer billing, AP, AR, and expense reporting
- Strong analytical capability and attention to detail
- Ability to operate independently in a fast moving environment
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA track a plus
- Experience with Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Salesforce, Bill.com, Expensify, & Excel
- Experience working with outsourced accounting teams
- Demonstrated process improvement and automation experience (AI tools, workflow design, etc.)
- Experience in telecom, infrastructure, construction, or project-based industries
Who Will Thrive Here
- Moves comfortably between detailed execution and big-picture thinking
- Values professional accountability and consistently follows through
- Communicates clearly across departments
- And just as important:
- Stays curious — you’re hungry to learn, grow, and understand the “why”
- Leans into continual improvement and enjoys building creative, effective solutions
- Brings positive energy to the team
We know many accountants can do this job. We’re looking for someone who genuinely wants to — someone engaged, sharp, and excited about being part of a growing company.
Even if you don’t check every single box — apply.
The best hires rarely do.
Work Hours: Company hours meet our customers’ and internal clients’ needs. This is an exempt position, so the hours of work will be dependent on the work that needs to be addressed to accomplish the work ascribed to this position.
Travel: Travel up to 15% of the time, dependent on home office location
- Base salary: $120,000 – $140,000 annually, commensurate with experience and location
- Bonus: annual bonus eligible, based on 15% of base salary
Benefits, Rewards & Wellness
- Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Paid parental leave
Work Environment and Rewards
This role is subject to a hybrid office/remote arrangement, reporting into one of our core offices in either Sunnyvale, CA, Denver, CO or Atlanta, GA on a regular basis, while still allowing for routine remote work. Specifics around in-person requirements and remote flexibility for this role will be determined with the hiring manager at the time of hire.
Disclaimer: Please note – this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
BIG Fiber provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status,sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Jim Nolte
CEO
Jim has spent the last 34 years building and running large, complex telecom networks for some of the most demanding enterprise clients in the US and abroad. As CEO of Silica Networks, Jim is responsible for the company’s strategy and development and is truly passionate about helping clients get the most future-proof network available.
Before launching Silica, Jim was Senior Vice President of Sales at Zayo Group, LLC, where he was responsible for developing strategy and managing all aspects of sales and customer relations while providing mission-critical infrastructure to many of the Fortune 100 enterprises in the financial services, content, media, healthcare and telecommunications industries.
Prior to Zayo, Jim served as Vice President of Sales for AGL Networks, a dark fiber provider with metro networks in several key data center markets that was acquired by Zayo in 2010. Mr. Nolte started his career at AT&T where he served in various strategy, sales and account management roles and earned his MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Mark Elder
CFO
Mark Elder has been guiding emerging, fast-growth companies for most of his career. As Chief Financial Officer, Mark is responsible for all accounting and financial matters to include establishing company-wide objectives, policies, procedures and practices to ensure our ongoing fiscal strength.
Prior to his role at Silica, Mr. Elder was the CFO of CPG Beyond, Inc., a leading data center services company, and its predecessor entity, Canara, Inc. During his 10 years at CPG Beyond, Mark oversaw the exponential growth of the business through a series of acquisitions and organic growth.
Mark began his career at Montgomery Financial Management, a boutique consulting firm in Silicon Valley, and has since held a number of CFO positions at emerging and high-growth technology companies. Mark earned his degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Chris Yost
General Counsel
Christopher Yost is General Counsel of Silica Networks and has been making telecom contracts as frictionless as possible for over 20 years. At Silica, Chris’ responsibilities include all commercial sales and vendor agreements, federal and state regulatory matters, underlying rights, real estate and security related matters.
Prior to Silica, Chris served as General Counsel of Zayo. During his tenure at Zayo, Chris managed all aspects of the legal department supporting Zayo’s dark fiber, wireless infrastructure, lit services, and colocation businesses. Chris led and/or supported Zayo’s substantial domestic and international M&A activity, and led legal diligence and integration of 42 acquisitions.
Early in his career, Chris served in a variety of legal and executive roles at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Human Resources (2005-2007), and Vice President of Litigation and Employment (1999-2006). Chris also spent 5+ years as a litigation, labor and employment associate at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, in the firm’s Washington DC office. Chris received his B.S in Political Science and Public Administration from Western Michigan University and his J.D. from Catholic University of America Law School in Washington D.C.
Andy Munn
VP of Operations
Andy has been building fiber optic networks across the U.S. for the last 20 years. As our VP of Operations at Silica, Andy is the person that keeps our crews busy and our network running. His responsibilities include all aspects of construction management, network surveillance and service delivery.
Andy’s experience includes senior leadership positions on both the carrier and contractor sides of the industry, allowing him to gain extensive knowledge in construction management, network design and engineering. His ability to build productive relationships with vendors, service providers and especially customers are assets that will serve Silica well as we grow.
Prior to his role at Silica, Andy was Project Director for Ledcor Technical Services, a diversified construction company that builds and services communications networks. At LTS, he led operations in the execution of an ongoing design-build metro network expansion for Verizon.
Prior to Ledcor, Andy held leadership roles at OnFiber Communications, CenturyLink, Zayo, and G4S Communications. Andy is a proud supporter of his alma mater, the University of Colorado Buffaloes. He enjoys spending time with his family, watching his sons play on their various sports teams, snowboarding, traveling and maintaining his meticulously landscaped yard.
Emily Bennett
VP of Sales
Emily Bennett is VP of Sales at Silica Networks. Throughout her career, Emily has pridefully built long-lived, strategic relationships with clients such as, CyrusOne, QTS, Comcast, Cox Communications, Sprint, British Telecom, and Google by being thoughtful and delivering on her promises. At Silica, Emily is responsible for helping our customers achieve the most reliable network possible by focusing on providing them the highest network diversity and scalability available.
Prior to her role at Silica, Ms. Bennett was Director of Sales at Zayo where she constantly sought an in-depth understanding of the needs of a vital account base consisting of data center operators, cable companies, telecom service providers as well as large enterprise clients and delivered on solutions that met them.
Preceding Zayo, Emily built key customer relationships at AGL Networks, a metro dark fiber provider where she learned the value of buried infrastructure and gained her deep appreciation for telecom construction. Prior to AGL, Emily was the southeast sales director for Metromedia Fiber Network, predecessor of Abovenet, which was later acquired by Zayo.
Jim Nolte
CEO
Jim has spent the last 34 years building and running large, complex telecom networks for some of the most demanding enterprise clients in the US and abroad. As CEO of Silica Networks, Jim is responsible for the company’s strategy and development and is truly passionate about helping clients get the most future-proof network available.
Before launching Silica, Jim was Senior Vice President of Sales at Zayo Group, LLC, where he was responsible for developing strategy and managing all aspects of sales and customer relations while providing mission-critical infrastructure to many of the Fortune 100 enterprises in the financial services, content, media, healthcare and telecommunications industries.
Prior to Zayo, Jim served as Vice President of Sales for AGL Networks, a dark fiber provider with metro networks in several key data center markets that was acquired by Zayo in 2010. Mr. Nolte started his career at AT&T where he served in various strategy, sales and account management roles and earned his MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
Mark Elder
CFO
Mark Elder has been guiding emerging, fast-growth companies for most of his career. As Chief Financial Officer, Mark is responsible for all accounting and financial matters to include establishing company-wide objectives, policies, procedures and practices to ensure our ongoing fiscal strength.
Prior to his role at Silica, Mr. Elder was the CFO of CPG Beyond, Inc., a leading data center services company, and its predecessor entity, Canara, Inc. During his 10 years at CPG Beyond, Mark oversaw the exponential growth of the business through a series of acquisitions and organic growth.
Mark began his career at Montgomery Financial Management, a boutique consulting firm in Silicon Valley, and has since held a number of CFO positions at emerging and high-growth technology companies. Mark earned his degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Chris Yost
General Counsel
Christopher Yost is General Counsel of Silica Networks and has been making telecom contracts as frictionless as possible for over 20 years. At Silica, Chris’ responsibilities include all commercial sales and vendor agreements, federal and state regulatory matters, underlying rights, real estate and security related matters.
Prior to Silica, Chris served as General Counsel of Zayo. During his tenure at Zayo, Chris managed all aspects of the legal department supporting Zayo’s dark fiber, wireless infrastructure, lit services, and colocation businesses. Chris led and/or supported Zayo’s substantial domestic and international M&A activity, and led legal diligence and integration of 42 acquisitions.
Early in his career, Chris served in a variety of legal and executive roles at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Human Resources (2005-2007), and Vice President of Litigation and Employment (1999-2006). Chris also spent 5+ years as a litigation, labor and employment associate at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, in the firm’s Washington DC office. Chris received his B.S in Political Science and Public Administration from Western Michigan University and his J.D. from Catholic University of America Law School in Washington D.C.
Andy Munn
VP of Operations
Andy has been building fiber optic networks across the U.S. for the last 20 years. As our VP of Operations at Silica, Andy is the person that keeps our crews busy and our network running. His responsibilities include all aspects of construction management, network surveillance and service delivery.
Andy’s experience includes senior leadership positions on both the carrier and contractor sides of the industry, allowing him to gain extensive knowledge in construction management, network design and engineering. His ability to build productive relationships with vendors, service providers and especially customers are assets that will serve Silica well as we grow.
Prior to his role at Silica, Andy was Project Director for Ledcor Technical Services, a diversified construction company that builds and services communications networks. At LTS, he led operations in the execution of an ongoing design-build metro network expansion for Verizon.
Prior to Ledcor, Andy held leadership roles at OnFiber Communications, CenturyLink, Zayo, and G4S Communications. Andy is a proud supporter of his alma mater, the University of Colorado Buffaloes. He enjoys spending time with his family, watching his sons play on their various sports teams, snowboarding, traveling and maintaining his meticulously landscaped yard.
Emily Bennett
VP of Sales
Emily Bennett is VP of Sales at Silica Networks. Throughout her career, Emily has pridefully built long-lived, strategic relationships with clients such as, CyrusOne, QTS, Comcast, Cox Communications, Sprint, British Telecom, and Google by being thoughtful and delivering on her promises. At Silica, Emily is responsible for helping our customers achieve the most reliable network possible by focusing on providing them the highest network diversity and scalability available.
Prior to her role at Silica, Ms. Bennett was Director of Sales at Zayo where she constantly sought an in-depth understanding of the needs of a vital account base consisting of data center operators, cable companies, telecom service providers as well as large enterprise clients and delivered on solutions that met them.
Preceding Zayo, Emily built key customer relationships at AGL Networks, a metro dark fiber provider where she learned the value of buried infrastructure and gained her deep appreciation for telecom construction. Prior to AGL, Emily was the southeast sales director for Metromedia Fiber Network, predecessor of Abovenet, which was later acquired by Zayo.