Senior Accountant

Summary

Join Payability as a Senior Accountant and play a key role in managing end-to-end accounting operations. You will lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes, prepare financial statements, manage audits, and maintain the accounts payable ledger. This high-impact role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure financial accuracy, process efficiency, and regulatory compliance. You will be empowered to build and automate workflows, enhance reporting, and drive process improvements. The position reports to the Head of FP&A and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 4-6 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally with a mix of public accounting and in-house roles
• Skilled with spreadsheets and queries to extract, manipulate and transform data
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Must be detail-oriented and produce accurate and timely work
• Adaptable and able to thrive in a rapidly changing environment
• Operates with a sense of urgency while managing multiple priorities
• Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision
• Effectively communicates and collaborates across the organization
• Highly motivated, intellectually curious, and a team player

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes, ensuring timely and accurate reporting in accordance with GAAP.  This includes reconciling operational data, preparing and recording journal entries, maintaining and reconciling general ledger accounts and performing variance analysis to budget and prior periods
• Own the preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP.  Assist in the development and preparation of internal financial reports for management and investors
• Coordinate and manage the annual financial statement audit and semi-annual bank audits, acting as the key point of contact with external auditors
• Maintain and reconcile the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are properly approved, paid timely, and recorded in the right period
• Implement and maintain effective internal controls, including segregation of duties, reconciliation and review processes, and process automation.  Contribute to the ongoing development of accounting policies and procedures, including process improvements and automation initiatives to scale accounting operations as the company grows
• Work closely with the Head of FP&A to monitor compliance with debt covenants, and serve as a fully-trained backup for daily borrowing base reporting
• Support daily treasury operations including cash flow tracking, payments processing, and bank reconciliations
• Other duties as assigned, including support for ad-hoc projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Active CPA license preferred, must have passed all sections of the exam
• Experience with Quickbooks Online preferred

Benefits

• Health (employee coverage fully paid by company), dental, vision
• 401(k) plan
• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
• Base salary range: $80,000 to $100,000
• Quarterly bonus potential based on achievement of company OKRs
• Opportunity to participate in company equity