Senior Accountant

Responsibilities

• Own Garage’s books in QuickBooks Online, including accurate financial statements, account reconciliations, and month-end close.
• Lead GAAP accrual accounting across AP, AR, payroll coordination, vendor payments, expenses, sales commissions, and related workflows.
• Reconcile marketplace transactions, payments, settlements, and funds movement across internal systems and external partners.
• Build and improve accounting processes, close calendars, review routines, documentation, and controls that can scale with the business.
• Partner with the Finance Lead to provide clean, reliable accounting inputs for planning, reporting, and business decision-making.
• Identify and resolve accounting operations issues quickly, bringing structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous workflows.
• Help Garage prepare for future audits, diligence requests, systems upgrades, and a more mature accounting function as the company grows.

Requirements

• 3+ years of accounting experience, ideally including ownership of accounting operations in a lean or high-growth environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Strong experience with QuickBooks Online and proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP accrual accounting, including AP, AR, month-end close, reconciliations, and financial statement management.
• Excellent reconciliation skills across multiple bank accounts, payment flows, systems, and vendors.
• Ability to build, document, and improve accounting processes rather than only execute existing ones.
• Strong organizational judgment and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple accounting workstreams at once.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and taking ownership in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

Nice to Have

• CPA or CPA-track.
• Experience in marketplaces, fintech, payments, lending, or other transaction-heavy businesses.
• Experience at an early-stage startup or on a finance/accounting team of fewer than five people.
• Experience preparing for audits, diligence requests, or stronger internal controls.
• Experience implementing or improving accounting systems, bill pay tools, payroll workflows, expense management, or close processes.