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About Capalo AI

Capalo AI is an energy-technology company on a mission to accelerate the energy transition by maximizing the economic and technical value of grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems and co-located renewable assets across European power markets. Through our AI-driven virtual power plant and trading service, Capalo Zeus VPP™, we help asset owners access markets, optimize performance, and turn flexible energy assets into high-performing, grid-supporting resources.

We are growing fast across Europe, with more than 1.5 GW of BESS capacity under contract, 30+ grid-scale assets under full end-to-end service, and over 500 MW of operational BESS capacity. As our business scales, we are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Accountant to strengthen our finance operations and help build reliable, scalable financial processes.

About the Role

As an Senior Accountant at Capalo AI, you will play a key role in ensuring accurate financial records, smooth month-end processes, and strong day-to-day finance operations. You will work closely with internal teams across the company and support our growing international business with structured accounting, reporting, and compliance practices.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys precision, ownership, and continuous improvement and who wants to contribute to a fast-growing company operating at the intersection of energy, AI, and financial markets.

Key Responsibilities

As the Senior Accountant, you will:

• Manage day-to-day accounting activities, including purchase invoices, sales invoices, payments, bank reconciliations, and general ledger entries.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes.
• Prepare and maintain accurate financial records, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Assist with VAT, tax, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Support accounts payable and accounts receivable processes.
• Coordinate with external accountants, auditors, tax advisors, and other finance partners when needed.
• Help improve accounting processes, internal controls, and finance workflows as the company scales.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting with accurate financial data.
• Ensure accounting practices comply with applicable regulations, company policies, and audit requirements.
• Work closely with business teams to ensure financial information is accurate, timely, and easy to understand.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone with strong accounting fundamentals, high attention to detail, and a hands-on attitude.

You should have:

• Relevant education in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations, or a similar role.
• Good understanding of bookkeeping, reconciliations, month-end closing, and financial reporting.
• Familiarity with Finnish accounting practices.
• Experience with accounting systems and strong Excel / Google Sheets skills.
• Understanding of VAT, tax, and statutory accounting requirements in Finland and cross border
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately with financial data.
• Ability to manage deadlines and prioritize work in a fast-moving environment.
• Good communication skills in English.

Nice to Have

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in a startup, scale-up, energy, trading or technology company.
• Experience working in an international or multi-entity environment.
• Familiarity with Finnish accounting practices
• Familiarity with other middle europan accounting practices.
• Experience with ERP or financial management systems such as Procountor, Brigth Analytics and Financekey
• Interest in energy markets, renewable energy, or the energy transition.

Why Join Capalo AI?

• Real impact on the energy transition
  Your work will support a company helping batteries and renewable assets operate more effectively in European power markets, improving grid stability and enabling higher shares of renewable energy.
• Fast-growing international company
  Capalo AI is expanding across multiple European markets and works with grid-scale BESS and hybrid renewable assets in countries including Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Romania, Greece, Spain, and Portugal.
• Ownership and visibility
  You will have the opportunity to take responsibility, improve processes, and work closely with decision-makers in a lean, ambitious team.
• Meaningful finance work in a complex industry
  You will support accounting and reporting in a business that combines energy markets, AI-driven optimization, trading operations, and international growth.
• Collaborative, mission-driven culture
  You will join a team focused on long-term value creation, operational excellence, and practical contribution to the energy transition.

How to Apply

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you.

We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Apply by submitting your application through our recruitment system. We review applications on a rolling basis and may begin the process as soon as we receive them.

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Capalo AI runs the trading intelligence behind more than 1 GW of battery storage across Finland, Sweden, Latvia, and Lithuania. Every day, our AI makes thousands of decisions about when to charge, when to discharge, and which electricity markets to bid into, turning energy storage from a fixed asset into the most profitable software-defined product in the energy system.

We recently closed a new funding round to Accelerate our expansion across Europe – read more here .

We’re building the platform that the next decade of European energy storage will run on. We’re hiring fast across every function, and this page is for the people who want in, even if there isn’t a posted role that matches you today.

Why Capalo

• Real impact, real megawatts: Your work shows up in carbon avoided, renewables enabled and grids that work. Not abstract, measurable.
• Hard, novel problems: Forecasting, Optimization under uncertainty, real-time market participation and AI that has to be right in production every five minutes.
• Speed ​​without chaos: We’re scaling fast, new markets, new products, new hires, but with the engineering and operational discipline to not break what already works.
• A team you’ll learn from: energy traders, ML researchers, platform engineers, and commercial operators, all unusually good at what they do.

Where We Hire

We hire across ten teams. Pick the one that best matches your background. You can also pick more than one, or tell us you don’t fit any of these and have something different to offer.

Commercial

Growth — Win new customers and new markets

You hunt for asset owners, utilities, IPPs, developers, who are sitting on battery projects and need a smarter trading partner. Expect time in Helsinki, Stockholm, Riga, Vilnius, and at industry events. Strong commercial instincts and energy domain depth both welcome.

Customer Onboarding — Bring signed customers live

Once a deal closes, you turn it into a live, optimizing asset. That means coordinating with grid operators, project-managing across engineering and commercial and hitting a launch date. Project management chops with technical fluency.

Partnerships — Strategic relationships across the energy Ecosystem

BESS doesn’t operate in isolation. You build the relationships with hardware vendors, EPCs, traders, regulators, and grid operators that make our platform and our customers’ assets stronger.

Marketing — Build the brand serious buyers take seriously

Energy is a serious industry that buys serious products. You build the brand asset owners trust, the content buyers actually read, and the demand the Growth team can convert.

Engineering & Product

Engineering — Optimization — The Intelligence behind the platform

You build the algorithms that decide what every battery does, every minute. Forecasting, bidding, Optimization under uncertainty. Math-heavy, Deeply researchy, with daily real-world feedback in P&L. Strong fits include applied math, OR, ML, and quant trading backgrounds.

Engineering — Production — The platform that doesn’t stop

You make sure the system keeps running when electricity markets don’t wait. Backend systems, infrastructure, observability, and shipping into new markets without breaking the ones that already work.

Staff Engineering — Technical leadership across the platform

You set technical direction across teams, raise the bar on architecture and design and mentor engineers. Hands-on, opinionated, and Trusted to make calls that compound for years.

Product — What we build, why and in what order

You translate market complexity, customer questions, and engineering reality into a roadmap. Heavy Collaboration with Optimization, Production, and the trading desk. Energy or fintech product backgrounds are a strong plus.

Operations

Operations — Keep a fast company moving without the wheels falling off

Finance, legal, regulatory, and the operational scaffolding that lets a fast-scaling team stay nimble without missing what a much larger company would catch.

People

People – Build the team and the culture that compounds it

You make Capalo a place where talented people stay, grow, and bring their friends. Hiring, onboarding, development and the cultural work that quietly determines whether the company is here in ten years.

Don’t fit any of these?

We still want to hear from you. Some of our best hires came in through a team description that didn’t quite match what they ended up doing. Apply anyway and tell us what you’d bring.

How We Work

• Where: HQ in Helsinki, with team members across Finland, Sweden, Latvia, and Lithuania.
• Working language: English. All meetings, documentation and code reviews run in English.
• Hybrid: Most teams are in-office around three days a week. Specifics vary by team and role.
• Compensation: Competitive base salary plus Meaningful equity. We share specifics transparently with candidates in the process.
• Interview process: Typically 4 -5 discussions over 2–3 weeks, including a role-specific deep-dive and assignment. We’ll lay out the full process before you start.

Who Tends to Thrive Here

• People who can hold ambiguity. Energy markets and AI both move fast and don’t hand you the answer.
• Bias to ownership. Whatever your title, you’ll be expected to spot problems and fix them.
• Genuine curiosity about the energy transition. The work gets harder before it gets easier – caring about the mission helps.

How to Apply

The application takes about 5 minutes.

• Pick the team(s) that match your background. You can choose more than one.
• Upload your CV.
• Write a short note on why Capalo and what you’ve brought.

We’ll keep your profile in our Talent community. When a role opens that fits, a member of our team reaches out to start a conversation. We’ll also occasionally share what we’re working on – only when it’s worth your time.

Build the Energy System of the Future

The energy transition is the largest infrastructure rebuild of our lifetimes. The companies that get the storage layer right will shape the next 30 years of how electricity actually works.

If that’s the kind of work you want to spend your time on, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now