Accounting Lead
Owns the company’s monthly close, AR, AP, cash forecasting, and accounting process development as its first dedicated accounting hire. The role requires 4+ years of accounting experience, strong spreadsheet skills, and the ability to build scalable, automated processes in a fast-growing SaaS environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
Monthly Close
- Own every journal entry, balance sheet reconciliation, checklist, and workpaper.
- Set and meet the close calendar, then continuously shorten the close process.
Accounts Receivable
- Manage invoicing, collections cadence, dunning, aging, credit notes, reserves, and disputes.
Accounts Payable
- Own vendor onboarding and W-9 collection, approval thresholds, payment runs, expense policy, and 1099s.
Cash Management
- Maintain the 13-week rolling cash forecast.
- Review actuals against forecasts weekly and provide written commentary on variances.
- Perform bank reconciliations across all operating accounts.
Documentation and Process Improvement
- Document accounting processes as they are built to support future diligence or audits.
- Repair broken processes and maintain an automated finance stack rather than adding manual reconciliations.
Requirements
- 4+ years of accounting experience in Big Four audit serving technology clients or in-house at a rapidly growing SaaS company.
- Ability to close a month, defend every number, and reconcile a billing system to a general ledger.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and Google Sheets.
- Willingness to take extreme ownership and build accounting processes end to end.
- Ability to work at an extremely fast pace and build systems that support growth-related decision-making.
Nice to Have
- CPA certification.
- SQL experience or willingness to learn it within the first three months.
- Experience working with Postgres reporting systems.
Skills
Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Financial Close, Bank Reconciliation, Cash Forecasting, Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, Postgres
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