Senior Accountant / Accounting Manager
Overview
A privately held, venture-backed technology company is seeking a Senior Accountant / Accounting Manager to join its growing Finance organization. Reporting to the Controller, this hands-on professional will take ownership of the general ledger, month-end close, technical accounting, project accounting, and audit readiness.
This is an opportunity to make an immediate impact in a lean, fast-moving startup environment. The ideal candidate can step into an evolving accounting function, investigate complex transactions, establish reliable processes, and independently bring the books to a clean, accurate, and audit-ready state. The role will support accounting for hardware deployments, compute agreements, leases, inventory, construction-in-progress, fixed assets, and joint ventures across multiple sites and states.
Key Responsibilities
General Ledger and Month-End Close
- Own the month-end close process, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and close schedules.
- Close outstanding accounting periods and establish a consistent, timely close process.
- Prepare monthly financial statements and flux analyses, explaining material variances to the Controller.
- Investigate historical transactions, resolve discrepancies, and determine appropriate accounting treatment.
- Maintain accurate, well-supported general ledger balances and accounting records.
Technical Accounting
- Evaluate customer, vendor, lease, and commercial agreements and determine their accounting implications.
- Support accounting conclusions under ASC 606 for revenue recognition and ASC 842 for lease accounting, including lessor accounting.
- Maintain revenue, deferred revenue, and lease schedules.
- Review billing schedules and deferred revenue rollforwards to ensure alignment with contract terms and the general ledger.
- Apply working knowledge of ASC 330, ASC 360, ASC 323, and ASC 810 as applicable to inventory, fixed assets, equity method accounting, consolidations, and variable interest entities.
- Prepare consolidation entries, intercompany eliminations, or equity method accounting entries as needed.
Project Accounting, Capital Expenditures, and Fixed Assets
- Own project accounting for site deployments, including project setup, cost tracking, budget monitoring, and reporting.
- Track committed and actual costs against approved budgets and purchase orders.
- Manage construction-in-progress balances through asset placement in service.
- Perform capitalization reviews and maintain accurate fixed asset records.
- Maintain asset details for deployed equipment, leased equipment, servers, and site infrastructure.
- Partner with Operations and Inventory teams to keep asset status, location, and cost information current.
- Track inventory from raw materials through work-in-progress and completed units.
- Prepare inventory rollforwards, cycle count reconciliations, and reserve analyses.
QuickBooks and Audit Readiness
- Independently manage and maintain QuickBooks Advanced or QuickBooks Enterprise.
- Customize financial reports and use QuickBooks to investigate transactions and support financial reporting.
- Clean up accounting records and improve the reliability of financial data.
- Establish documentation and processes that support audit readiness.
- Prepare schedules and supporting materials for internal and external accounting reviews.
Tax, Compliance, and Collaboration
- Support multistate sales and use tax activities, nexus tracking, and property tax related to deployed equipment.
- Assist with partnership tax matters for joint venture entities, state franchise taxes, stock-based compensation schedules, and the income tax provision.
- Review the work of the AP/AR Specialist and provide accounting guidance as needed.
- Collaborate with the Controller, FP&A, Operations, AP/AR, Inventory, and other cross-functional partners.
- Help build scalable accounting processes in an environment where procedures are still evolving.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience across public accounting and industry.
- Proven ownership of the month-end close process.
- Expert-level proficiency with QuickBooks Advanced or QuickBooks Enterprise.
- Ability to navigate QuickBooks independently, customize reports, manage the general ledger, and investigate transaction-level details.
- Hands-on experience with ASC 606 revenue recognition and ASC 842 lease accounting, including lessor accounting.
- Working knowledge of ASC 330, ASC 360, ASC 323, and ASC 810.
- Experience with project accounting, capital expenditures, construction-in-progress, and fixed asset accounting.
- Strong journal entry preparation, account reconciliation, and financial statement analysis skills.
- Ability to read contracts and determine relevant accounting implications.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to resolve complex accounting issues.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and take ownership without constant direction.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Clear communication and effective collaboration with Finance and non-Finance teams.
- Ability to work through incomplete or disorganized information and establish structure where processes are still developing.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience working in an early-stage, high-growth, hardware, infrastructure, energy, or technology company.
- Experience with Ramp.
- Experience supporting an ERP implementation or accounting system migration.
- Experience with joint ventures, consolidations, variable interest entities, and equity method accounting.
- Experience with inventory accounting for hardware or equipment deployments.
- Experience supporting multistate tax compliance and property tax activities.
- Experience preparing an organization for its first audit or strengthening audit-readiness processes.
- Prior experience reviewing or supervising AP/AR activities.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field.
- CPA certification, active or in progress, preferred.
- 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience, including a combination of public accounting and industry experience.
- Experience operating successfully in a lean, rapidly changing organization with evolving processes.
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: Hybrid; onsite at least one day per week on Mondays.
- Ability to work effectively in a hands-on environment where information and processes may be incomplete or still developing.
- Comfort managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and accountability.
- The position is expected to begin as soon as possible.
- Initial engagement is expected to be 3–6+ months, with potential for extension or conversion to a permanent position.
