Interim Senior Accountant POST NUMBER: 425365

Interim Sr. Accountant (GL and Commissions)

Our client, a prominent online job and company review platform, is seeking an Interim Senior Accountant. This role is 100% remote, with flexibility on US working hours, though the team works PST hours during close (2 days). The Senior Accountant will assist in day-to-day accounting operations, including GL, commissions, intercompany revenue, and ad hoc compliance tasks. This position requires strong US GAAP accounting knowledge, operational experience, attention to detail, and a focus on process improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in the monthly close process by preparing or reviewing journal entries for various business transactions, including vendor accruals, leases, intercompany revenue, and commissions.
• Reconcile and analyze balance sheet and income statement accounts for the US and international subsidiaries, providing insightful reporting to stakeholders.
• Proactively collaborate with FP&A to obtain transaction information, research reconciling items, resolve issues independently, and determine appropriate vendor accruals for the month.
• Work cross-functionally to lead the monthly process of closing the books operationally in NetSuite in accordance with the established close schedule.
• Review and approve the monthly commissions accrual.
• Review and approve the monthly commissions payments submitted to payroll on a timely basis.
• Identify, develop, and implement process improvements, documenting desktop procedures to achieve efficiencies and scalability.
• Partner with other teams to develop the appropriate revenue recognition process and record revenue timely and accurately when new products are offered.
• Drive effective partnership, communication, collaboration, and commitment with leasing, revenue, and financial reporting teams.
• Assist with accounting and compliance ad hoc projects as needed.

Requirements:

• 3 years of experience, ideally within a late-stage start-up or publicly-traded company with SOX controls and compliance requirements.
• CPA highly preferred; strong understanding of GAAP is required; IFRS a plus.
• Systems-savvy: NetSuite experience is required; Workday experience is nice to have.
• Strong Excel skills, including the ability to work with and analyze large data sets; proficiency with VLOOKUPs, PivotTables, and SumIfs.

Soft Skills:

• Outstanding work paper organization, attention to detail, and ability to quickly synthesize and analyze data.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build strong cross-functional relationships.
• Systems/Tech savvy, able to remotely onboard, troubleshoot tech and communication tools semi-independently.
• Ability to proactively and creatively approach problem-solving to execute multiple tasks and adhere to strict deadlines in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Excellent critical thinking and time management skills, as well as strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to work collaboratively and build strong relationships across the organization.

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.