Senior Accountant

Overview

This role oversees day-to-day accounting, ensuring an accurate and timely monthly close. You will also own US multi-state sales tax compliance and support partnership income tax filings alongside an external tax firm. Additional responsibilities include some FP&A and cash flow reporting.

You will work closely with the Head of Finance and an outsourced CFO, while overseeing and reviewing the work completed by bookkeepers. This is a hands-on oversight position—transactional work is handled by bookkeepers, and you ensure results tie out, close on time, and hold up to scrutiny.

Responsibilities

Accounting Oversight & Monthly Close

• Help build out the accounting function, including processes, controls, a close calendar, and how the accounting unit scales.
• Own the monthly close end to end: set and maintain the close calendar and deliver accurate results on time.
• Oversee and review bookkeeper work, including journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals; resolve questions they escalate.
• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable, including vendor payments and customer collections; keep aging under control and ensure AP/AR reconcile cleanly to the general ledger.
• Maintain data integrity between operating platforms (Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, and retail portals) and the general ledger.
• Own inventory accounting, building a bottom-up process across many SKUs (landed cost, cost layers, inventory roll-forward) in an environment with limited ERP/system support.
• Own the chart of accounts and accounting policies; keep documentation clean and consistent.
• Prepare financial statements and supporting schedules and support audit/review readiness.

Tax

• Own US multi-state sales tax compliance end to end: monitor economic nexus, manage registrations, and ensure accurate and timely filings across every state where the organization has exposure.
• Reconcile marketplace facilitator tax (sales tax collected and remitted on the organization’s behalf by Amazon, TikTok Shop, and other channels) against internal records; handle notices and discrepancies.
• Manage sales tax automation tooling and coordinate with advisors as needed.
• Manage indirect tax compliance as the organization expands internationally, including Canadian GST/HST and European (EU) VAT (registrations, filings, and reconciliations), coordinating with local advisors in each jurisdiction.
• Support partnership income tax as a multi-member LLC by coordinating with the external tax firm on K-1s and other applicable form filings; prepare supporting schedules and partner capital account data the firm needs.
• Help keep partner-level tax reporting accurate, timely, and audit-ready.

FP&A & Cash Flow

• Support FP&A and forecasting, including budgets and rolling forecasts, and explain variances against actuals as each month closes.
• Own daily and weekly cash flow reporting, tracking cash position and near-term inflows/outflows so leadership has an up-to-date view of liquidity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of accounting experience, including hands-on ownership of a monthly close and comfort overseeing or reviewing others’ work (bookkeepers or junior staff).
• Solid US GAAP foundation and strong month-end close discipline.
• US multi-state sales tax compliance experience, including nexus, registrations, filings, and marketplace facilitator reconciliation.
• Hands-on experience managing accounts payable and accounts receivable, including collections and aging management.
• Some US partnership income tax experience; comfort with K-1s and other applicable form filings and supporting the process alongside an external tax firm.
• Hands-on experience with QuickBooks (Online preferred).
• Comfort working with e-commerce/marketplace data (Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop) and reconciling platform and settlement data to the books.
• AI fluency: actively use AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) in day-to-day accounting work for researching questions, drafting reconciliations and memos, cleaning data, and speeding up recurring close and compliance tasks; verify AI output before it drives a filing or decision.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting or tax issues clearly to non-accountants.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or equivalent certification.
• Experience in consumer products, home goods, or e-commerce/retail, including big-box wholesale.
• Familiarity with sales tax automation tools (e.g., Avalara, TaxJar).
• Experience overseeing a bookkeeping function or outsourced accounting partners.
• BI/data tooling experience (Power BI, SQL, advanced Excel) for reconciliation and analysis.
• Exposure to international indirect tax (VAT/GST) and multi-currency.
• Working knowledge of building forecasts and budgets.
• Comfort working in a lean, fast-moving environment where processes are built as needs arise.

Compensation & Benefits

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Location

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