Senior Accountant

About the role

The Senior Accountant is a key contributor responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the company’s financial records in a high-growth SaaS environment. This role goes beyond transactional accounting and requires strong technical accounting skills, ownership of complex areas, and the ability to operate independently with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, problem solver, and continuous improver who can manage complexity, anticipate issues, and elevate the accounting function as the company scales. This role will help build the technical accounting foundation of the organization by strengthening GAAP expertise, reducing key-person dependency, and improving the quality and scalability of financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Accounting & Close Ownership
  • Own key areas of the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close with full accountability for accuracy and timeliness.
  • Prepare and review complex journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
  • Strengthen balance sheet governance by improving reconciliation quality, resolving aged reconciling items, and identifying financial reporting risks.
  • Partner with the Assistant Controller to accelerate close timelines and improve close quality.
• Technical Accounting & Judgment
  • Lead technical accounting research and prepare accounting memoranda for complex or non-routine transactions.
  • Apply GAAP with confidence across revenue, accruals, reserves, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and software capitalization.
  • Support ASC 606 and other technical accounting areas by preparing schedules, analyses, and documentation.
  • Identify accounting implications of non-standard transactions and provide recommendations to Accounting leadership.
• Process Excellence & Controls
  • Design, document, and improve accounting processes and internal controls.
  • Identify inefficiencies, root causes, and control gaps; propose and implement solutions.
  • Ensure compliance with internal policies, audit standards, and SOX-lite controls