Senior Accountant

Overview

This role is responsible for ensuring the organization’s books are accurate, timely, and audit-ready, while raising the standard for how the Accounting team operates. You will prepare financial statements and supporting reconciliations, lead accounting projects and system changes, and strengthen internal controls for the areas you own.

You will report to an Accounting Manager and work closely with FP&A, Tax, Payroll, AP/AR, Engineering/IT, and external auditors.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate, timely financial statements, reconciliation schedules, and supporting analysis (flux, variance, and trend) for assigned areas.
• Serve as subject matter expert for assigned areas by researching and documenting technical accounting positions behind complex or non-routine transactions.
• Lead accounting projects and system changes from plan through delivery.
• Identify and implement improvements to accounting practices, including automation to deliver data faster and reduce risk across teams.
• Own internal controls for assigned areas, identifying control/process deficiencies, designing and implementing solutions, and improving how the team works.
• Collaborate effectively across teams, maintain a positive approach under pressure, welcome feedback, and contribute to shared department goals.

Collaboration

• Partner with FP&A, Payroll, Tax, AP/AR, and Engineering/IT on data flows, system changes, internal controls, and month-end close dependencies.
• Support internal and external audits, including testing of people, process, and system controls.
• Mentor less experienced teammates by reviewing their work and explaining your thinking; present regularly to the team and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Has independently run month-end close and prepared financial statements for multiple areas, including complex or non-routine transactions, with limited review.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience (or a related ERP), including journal entries, reconciliations, saved searches, and running the close in the system.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas (lookups, nested logic, pivots, and array formulas) for reconciliations and analysis.
• Day-to-day experience using an AI tool for analysis, automation, or documentation, with sound judgment in validating outputs.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and the ability to clearly explain accounting decisions and underlying reasoning.
• Understanding of people, process, and system controls, with a track record of leading projects or process improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience extending NetSuite and AI tooling (e.g., saved searches, workflows, scripting) to provide data faster and mitigate risk.
• Experience with adjacent accounting functional areas and technologies (e.g., revenue, billing, or subledger systems).
• Familiarity with entity structure, close calendar, policies, and the systems connecting Accounting to the rest of the business (or strong ability to learn them quickly).
• Large-project planning experience, including creating major project plans, estimating well, and explaining delivery confidence.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hiring Range (base salary): $112,500—$148,500 USD (assumes work performed in the United States).
• Competitive compensation with benefits for full-time positions only.

Benefits include:

• 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered for employees and their families; fertility and gender-affirming healthcare included in all plans.
• Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits available via Ginger, including Ginger for teen family members.
• Gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covering all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
• 401k enrollment eligible for full-time employees starting on day one.
• After six months of employment, substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.
• Annual profit-sharing bonus.
• 100% distributed team; coming into the Boston office is welcome.
• $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if working away from home.
• Lifestyle Savings Account: initial deposit of $1800, plus an additional quarterly stipend of $375 for professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
• Generous vacation policy encouraging at least four weeks PTO per year plus 15 paid company holidays.

Location

This role’s hiring range assumes the job will be performed in the United States. A Boston office option is available.

Program Timeline (First Year)

Within 1 month, you will…

• Complete onboarding to the close calendar, chart of accounts, policies, and NetSuite and Numeric (month-end close software) setup, and shadow one full month-end close.
• Take over reconciliations and journal entries for assigned accounts and complete them on the close calendar with reviewer sign-off.
• Document people, process, and system controls for assigned areas and share a list of risks and questions with your manager.
• Meet 1:1 with key partners (FP&A, Tax, AP/AR, and audit contacts) to learn needs and align on how you will work together.

Within 3 months, you will…

• Prepare assigned financial statements and flux analysis independently for two consecutive closes, with minimal review comments.
• Present variance analysis that is clearly structured and explains drivers behind the numbers.
• Provide assigned inputs to the budget schedule on time with supporting detail and clearly stated assumptions.
• Identify at least two process improvements, rank them by impact and effort, and implement one end to end.
• Research and document the technical accounting position for one non-routine transaction or policy area and walk Accounting Managers through it.

Within 6 months, you will…

• Enhance or redesign reconciliations to show substantial backup and clear explanation of work.
• Lead one project or system change end to end: write the project plan, estimate the work, state confidence in the timeline, and deliver.
• Design and ship an automation (using NetSuite, Excel, and/or AI tools) that reduces manual effort in close or reporting and gets data to stakeholders faster.
• Present to the team on a regular cadence (e.g., monthly) and take on additional accounting responsibilities.

Within 12 months, you will…

• Be recognized as the subject matter expert for your areas, consulted on complex accounting questions, while owning an expanded set of areas and meeting close deadlines.
• Drive process improvements that measurably change how the team operates (e.g., close days saved, hours of manual work removed).

Eligibility / Employment Authorization

Posit Software, PBC participates in the federal E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of newly hired U.S.-based employees. E-Verify is initiated upon hire.