Senior Accountant

About the role

The Senior Accountant I supports key accounting and financial reporting functions to ensure accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. This role contributes to the monthly close process, maintains critical financial records, supports audits and tax activities, and partners with internal teams to uphold strong financial controls and reporting standards.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate effectively across departments to ensure accurate financial reporting, alignment on accounting processes, and timely resolution of issues.
• Support the monthly close process, including preparing journal entries, updating account reconciliations, inter-company, cost allocations, and other balance sheet and P&L accounts.
• Ability to reconcile complex accounts including but not limited to prepaid software, capitalized research and development assets, bonus, and commission liability accounts.
• Proactively investigate and prepare necessary journal entries to correct items identified in advance of monthly variance review.
• Conduct monthly balance sheet reviews with Controller & Director of Accounting.
• Support annual audit & assist with ad hoc accounting and other projects as equested.
• Complete all estimated tax, extensions, and sales & use tax payments & returns timely.
• Research and resolve tax notices when received.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of accounting debits and credits
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Master’s degree in accounting or business administration preferred
• CPA preferred
• 6-7 years of accounting experience with 2-3 Years of Public Accounting or private industry accounting in software industry preferred

Skills & Abilities

• Experience with Microsoft Office applications, and advanced skill with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with accounting systems.
• Sage Intacct experience
• Public accounting or Software industry experience
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and thorough understanding of US GAAP, internal controls, and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated understanding of ASC 350-40 Internal Use Software, ASC 730 R&D Capitalization
• High-level of proficiency in MS Office Suite (especially MS Excel) required.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel