Senior Accountant

Overview

This role involves hands-on ownership of day-to-day accounting, an accurate and timely monthly close, and sales tax compliance as the organization grows across multiple sales channels and states. The Senior Accountant will oversee work performed by bookkeepers, ensure reporting ties out and is audit/review ready, and support indirect tax compliance as expansion continues.

The position also includes an FP&A component, supporting forecasting, budgets, and variance explanations, along with daily and weekly cash flow reporting.

Responsibilities

Accounting Oversight & Monthly Close

• Build and help mature the accounting function, including processes, controls, close calendar, and scalable structure for a growing organization.
• Own the monthly close end to end, setting and maintaining the close calendar and delivering accurate results on time.
• Oversee and review bookkeeper work, including journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals; resolve questions escalated by bookkeepers.
• Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable, including vendor payments, customer collections, aging management, and ensuring AP/AR reconciles 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, including building and maintaining a bottom-up approach 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
  • Ensure accurate, timely filings in every state where there is 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 manage discrepancies related to sales tax.
• Manage sales tax automation tooling and coordinate with advisors where needed.
• Manage indirect tax compliance as expansion continues internationally, including:
  • Canadian GST/HST
  • European (EU) VAT
    This includes registrations, filings, and reconciliations coordinated with local advisors in each jurisdiction.
• Support partnership income tax compliance for a multi-member LLC:
  • Coordinate with the external tax firm on K-1s and other applicable form filings
  • Prepare the 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 by building and maintaining budgets and rolling forecasts and explaining variances against actuals each month closes.
• Own daily and weekly cash flow reporting, tracking cash position and near-term inflows and outflows so leadership has current visibility into 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).
• Strong US GAAP foundation and 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/settlement data to the books.
• AI fluency: actively uses AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) for day-to-day accounting work (researching questions, drafting reconciliations and memos, cleaning data, and speeding up recurring close and compliance tasks) while verifying output before it drives a filing or decision.
• Strong written communication skills; ability to explain accounting or tax issues clearly to non-accountants.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or equivalent certification.
• Consumer products, home goods, or e-commerce/retail industry experience, 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 due to expansion.
• Working knowledge of building forecasts and budgets.
• Comfort in a lean, fast-moving environment where processes are built as the organization grows.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full-time role. Compensation and benefits are not specified in the provided description.

Location

• Remote (US-based)

Reporting

• Reports to Head of Finance / Global Controller