Sr. Accountant
Who We Are
We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance.
We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business.
If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.
The Role
We are looking for a highly motivated professional to join our Finance team as a Senior Accountant. You will play a key role in accurate and speedy month-end close and own the general ledger. You should be able to quickly identify pain points and communicate across the organization. You will have a fearless approach to ensuring the success of our team and the desire to dig in and be hands-on.
This position will report to the Accounting Manager and is a remote role.
Responsibilities
- Key role in month-end close and general ledger maintenance
- Identify system processes and control gaps
- Work with payroll processor and HR team to ensure all state and local tax returns are filed, and ERP system is up to date.
- Assist with audits
- Prepare monthly accruals, and prepaid expenses, and adjust entries as needed
- Recommend ways to reduce costs and enhance revenue
- Preparation of weekly cash burn
- Reconcile accounts monthly to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance
- Execute month-end close journal entries, with little supervision
- Foster a collaborative team environment ensuring strong customer service is provided
- Suggest process improvements to facilitate streamlining and automation
- Perform special tasks and projects about functional responsibilities or other areas as needed
Qualifications
- Higher education degree that is equivalent to a US Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- 3+ years’ experience in accounting/finance for US based company
- Experience with US GAAP and US financial reporting
- Proven ability to meet deadlines, prioritize quickly, organize teams, and deliver results
- Ability to work effectively with various departments outside of Finance
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, changing environment and anticipate future needs
- A roll-up-your-sleeves and jump-in-where-needed attitude
- Demonstrated ability to excel in a remote work environment, including maintaining self-discipline, managing time effectively, and ensuring consistent productivity without direct supervision
Bonus Qualifications
- Public Accounting experience
- Current CPA or CPA-eligible
- Experience creating accounting memos and process documentation
- Experience with ERPs, Intacct
- Technology industry experience is a plus
- Experience operating with a high degree of autonomy
- Experience with SOX Compliance and Internal Control Testing
- Ability to interpret and convey complex accounting guidance to non-accountants
Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact.
Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more!
Benefits. The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.
Please check out our careers' page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.
*applicable to in-office employees
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ZenBusiness
We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting you one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their busi...
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