The Role
The Senior Accountant is responsible for managing fixed assets, prepaid expenses, payroll, and lease accounting, preparing reconciliations, analyzing financial statements, ensuring revenue recognition per GAAP, and supporting annual audits. This role involves month-end closing duties and multi-state sales tax compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Senior Accountant will be responsible for a variety of accounting, analysis and reporting tasks, with a heavy emphasis on revenue recognition, general ledger accounting, balance sheet reconciliations and month/quarter-end closing.
Job duties include but are not limited to:
General Ledger:
- Own end-to-end accounting of fixed assets, prepaid expenses, payroll, debt and leases
- Prepare monthly and quarterly general ledger account reconciliations in a timely manner and take action on any reconciling items
- Reconcile bank accounts monthly
- Abide by GAAP standards and comply with company internal control and accounting policies
- Analyze financial statements for discrepancies and other issues and resolve discrepancies
- Support annual financial audit preparation
- Manage debt compliance reporting
- Ensure multi-state sales tax compliance and timely prepare sales tax returns
- Assist Controller with AR collections efforts and allowance accounting. Engage in special projects and analysis as assigned
Revenue:
- Review new sales contracts and amendments to ensure revenue recognition and billing are properly accounted for in accordance with US GAAP
- Prepare deferred revenue reconciliation schedules, including preparation and posting of related journal entries
- Perform all duties for month-end close process related to revenue recognition
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in an accounting role
- Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles
- CPA preferred
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and respond to changing business needs
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight month-end deadlines
- Well organized and proactive
- Big 4 experience a plus
- Sage Intacct experience a plus
- Technology experience (specifically SaaS) a plus
Our Benefits:
- An excellent work environment, flat hierarchies, and short decision paths
- A generous benefits package including 100% employer-paid health, dental, vision and Life insurance, STD, LTD
- Stock options
- Appealing 401k matching plan
- Career Mentorship Opportunities
- Personal Development Credit (Can be used toward Student loans or relevant PD Courses)
- Annual life achievement bonus for having a baby, buying a house, or getting married (max one per year)
- No set days off Vacation policy (our team takes time off as needed with supervisor approval)
- Up to $50 for Gym membership
- Audible or Kindle Unlimited subscription
Top Skills
Excel
The Company
What We Do
FreightWaves is the most trusted provider of global supply chain market intelligence. Our high-frequency price, demand, and capacity data and analysis allow our customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor and forecast the global physical economy.
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