Senior Accountant

Overview

This role builds and strengthens the organization’s accounting function as the first full-time Senior Accountant. Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will own core accounting operations across revenue, cash, accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), and the general ledger. The position emphasizes audit readiness, controls, documentation, and scalable month-end processes.

This is a fully remote position within the U.S., with the ability to work on Eastern Time.

Responsibilities

Audit Readiness & Compliance

• Maintain audit-ready financial records, reconciliations, and supporting documentation across assigned areas
• Coordinate, prepare, and deliver audit requests, schedules, and documentation in a timely manner
• Serve as a key point of contact for external financial auditors, responding to inquiries and explaining accounting entries, balance sheet items, and supporting reports
• Ensure financial activity is traceable, properly documented, and compliant with GAAP and internal controls
• Support preparation for the next, larger full financial audit

Revenue Recognition, AR & Cash Management

• Own revenue accounting integrity, ensuring alignment between billing data, cash receipts, and general ledger activity
• Record revenue in accordance with GAAP; manage customer invoicing and accounts receivable
• Reconcile payments to remittances and invoices, investigate discrepancies, and maintain AR aging schedules
• Record and apply incoming payments, perform monthly bank reconciliations, and independently resolve discrepancies

Accounts Payable & Expense Management

• Process and review vendor invoices through Bill.com and employee reimbursements through Expensify, ensuring appropriate coding, documentation, and approvals
• Maintain vendor records and manage monthly expense accruals and supporting schedules
• Own capitalization and amortization accounting for internally developed technology, partnering with Technology and Finance to identify qualifying costs (including applicable employee compensation and third-party development costs)
• Maintain detailed project-level documentation supporting capitalized costs, amortization, and underlying accounting conclusions
• Support identification and tracking of qualifying research and development expenditures for potential R&D tax credits, maintaining appropriate project, payroll, vendor, and other supporting documentation in coordination with Finance and external tax advisors
• Help establish an integrated process for tracking technology development costs that supports GAAP capitalization requirements and R&D tax-credit analysis

General Ledger, Month-End Close & Record Retention

• Help develop, document, and continuously improve accounting policies, procedures, reconciliations, and control documentation as the Finance organization evolves
• Translate recurring accounting activities into clear, repeatable processes (what must be completed, when, required documentation, dependencies, and responsible parties)
• Maintain a comprehensive rolling accounting workbook in the designated Bookkeeper folder that records and retains recurring accruals, adjusting entries, journal entry support, reconciliations, and key accounting schedules supporting and informing QuickBooks activity
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, controls, and scalability without sacrificing accounting accuracy or audit readiness
• Support continued development of a disciplined and increasingly scalable month-end close and accounting operating calendars

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Improvement

• Partner with Payroll, HR, Billing, Technology, and other teams to ensure financial accuracy, appropriate documentation, and timely completion of accounting dependencies
• Independently identify, investigate, and resolve accounting discrepancies; escalate complex or non-routine matters with a clear assessment and recommended course of action
• Support comprehensive knowledge transfer from the current accounting consultant as the accounting function moves in-house
• Communicate accounting issues, findings, risks, and recommendations clearly and concisely to Finance leadership
• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned responsibilities, combining strong technical accounting judgment with attention to detail, responsiveness, and follow-through
• Thrive in a growing environment where processes evolve and where you help build and improve procedures rather than only execute them

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Minimum 4 years progressive accounting experience with increasing ownership across general ledger, reconciliations, and financial reporting
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP, including accrual accounting, revenue recognition, journal entries, and reconciliations
• Demonstrated experience owning month-end close or significant portions of the general ledger
• Experience with audit readiness, documentation, and internal controls
• Experience across revenue recognition, customer invoicing, AR, AP, and cash management
• Proficiency with accounting and finance tools (e.g., QuickBooks Online, Expensify, Bill.com, Google Workspace)
• Proven ability to operate independently, exercise sound judgment, and manage competing priorities in a lean, fast-paced environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable explaining accounting issues to non-accounting stakeholders and external auditors

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with QuickBooks Online, Expensify, and Bill.com specifically
• Experience in a startup or high-growth, scaling organization
• Experience supporting a first or full financial audit
• Experience with capitalization and amortization of technology development costs
• Experience collaborating with Technology, Billing, Payroll, HR, or external auditors

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $85,000 - $125,000
• Benefits: Full package (medical, dental, vision, retirement, professional development support)

Location

Fully remote within the U.S., with the ability to work on Eastern Time.