Senior Accountant

Overview

This is a Senior Accountant role sourced from a job board.

The organization is building a customer-first monetization platform and is seeking a Senior Accountant to own day-to-day financial operations, with a particular focus on revenue, billing, and financial accuracy.

This is a foundational role that involves managing how money moves through a complex, two-sided marketplace—across advertisers, affiliate platforms, and partners—ensuring information is accurate, reconciled, and on time. The role 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, payouts, and reconciliation across affiliate platforms.
  • 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 provide visibility and eliminate errors.
• Support month-end close and reporting
  • Maintain clean, current books and 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 clean, documented, and under control.
• Improve systems and reduce manual work
  • Identify and implement improvements across the finance stack.
  • Reduce manual inputs and streamline workflows with scalable processes.
• Operate as a problem-solver
  • Work through ambiguity and resolve discrepancies to keep operations moving.

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)
• Able to own processes end-to-end and be 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 style

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
• ESOP
• Scope to grow the 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