Senior Accountant

Overview

This role is a Senior Accountant position focused on owning day-to-day financial operations, with a particular emphasis on revenue, billing, and financial accuracy. You will manage how money moves through a complex, two-sided marketplace across advertisers, affiliate platforms, and partners—ensuring accuracy, reconciliations, and timely payments.

You will collaborate closely with a Fractional CFO while operating independently day to day.

Responsibilities

• Own revenue, billing, and reconciliation

  • Manage end-to-end billing across advertisers and partners, including invoicing and payouts
  • Reconcile revenue across affiliate platforms (e.g., Impact, Rakuten)
  • Ensure revenue is accurate, traceable, and complete

• Run clean, reliable financial operations

  • Own accounts payable and expense management
  • Ensure invoices are captured, approved, and paid on time
  • Build simple, effective processes that improve visibility and reduce errors

• Support month-end close and reporting

  • Maintain clean, current books
  • Support the monthly close
  • Partner with the Fractional CFO to deliver clear, reliable reporting and investor-ready outputs

• Own US payroll and compliance hygiene

  • Manage payroll via Rippling
  • Ensure core US tax and compliance obligations are handled correctly
  • Keep processes documented, clean, and under control

• Improve systems and reduce manual work

  • Identify and implement improvements across the finance stack
  • Reduce manual inputs and streamline workflows
  • Build processes that scale

• Operate as a problem-solver

  • Work through ambiguity and resolve discrepancies independently
  • Keep operations moving without waiting for perfect inputs

Requirements

• 3–6 years’ experience in accounting or finance, with strong foundational training
• Degree-qualified in accounting, finance, or similar
• Experience handling revenue, billing, invoicing, or reconciliation
• Experience operating in fast-moving, ambiguous or unstructured environments (startup, scaleup, or consulting)
• Comfortable working with multi-party or performance-based revenue flows (e.g., marketplaces, affiliate, adtech, fintech)
• Strong grasp of core accounting processes (AP, AR, month-end close)
• Comfortable owning processes end-to-end and being accountable for outcomes
• High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and completeness
• Ability to identify issues, work through ambiguity, and resolve discrepancies independently
• Track record of improving processes and reducing manual work
• Experience with accounting tools such as Xero, QuickBooks, or similar
• Clear and direct communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with affiliate platforms (e.g., Impact, Rakuten, CJ, Partnerize)
• Exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency environments
• Background in adtech, marketplaces, or performance-based revenue models
• Experience in an early-stage startup environment

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus ESOP
• Scope to grow your role as the organization grows

Location & Working Style

• Strong preference for US West Coast-based candidates to enable effective collaboration across time zones
• Open to other US locations for exceptional candidates
• Remote-first, with a high degree of trust and ownership