Elite Technology is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Job Description:
The Sr. Director of Accounting supervise the global accounting team and oversee the key financial process such as monthly close, and account reconciliations. This position has overall responsibility for the global accounting policies, operations and systems.
What You’ll Do:
- Responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the Accounting team, including general ledger, accounts payable, billing credit collections and accounts receivable teams. Responsible for the monthly close process, account reconciliations and department KPIs.
- Work closely with the Controller to assume leadership of projects including ownership over cash forecasting and tax and treasury coordination. Will work on highly complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires working with other departments and coming up with innovative solutions.
- Serve as the technical U.S. GAAP subject matter expert on complex/critical areas.
- Responsible for consolidated financial statements including the quarterly financial pack to the Audit Committee and Board of Directors and ability to present financial statements during internal monthly close calls.
- Liaise and manage Elite’s external auditors, tax auditors or other 3rd parties and follow applicable regulatory reporting guidelines and manage country statutory filings.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and take a lead role in enhancing current control procedures and processes.
- Review and approve journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations and analytics.
- Evaluate and continuously improve NetSuite system for greater efficiency and accuracy.
- Drive weekly cash flow forecasting in partnership with the FP&A team.
- Establish and implement best in class tax and cash management processes.
- Responsible for staff development, performance reviews and manage the Accounting team structure in alignment with the Controller.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support the overall goals and objectives of the department/company
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, MBA or CPA preferred
- 10+ years of experience in accounting management, with at least 4 years in software.
- Strong proficiency in NetSuite and Excel.
- Familiarity with multi-country operations.
- Acquisition integration/purchase accounting experience highly desirable.
- Proven track record in leading accounting teams for high-growth software companies in a venture-backed or private-equity setting.
- Successful track record of setting priorities; keen analytic, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision-making
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, evolving environment and manage multiple priorities.
Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package ($165,000 - $190,000 base salary + variable component)
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
- Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Time Off
- Wellness Initiatives
Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.
Additional Information
Location
At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible remote work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.
In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.
Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Oklahoma.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.
What We Do
Elite is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.
Our solutions lie at the heart of a large proportion of the world’s largest, most successful and innovative law firms. In fact, three-quarters of the Am Law 200 and four-fifths of the Global 200 rely on at least one Elite solution to help drive their firms’ business operations into the future. As more firms make cloud solutions a core part of their technology strategies for the future, Elite is leading the way in supporting customers as they move their financial and operational systems into the cloud. To date, Elite has supported more than 400 firms around the world in their move to 3E in the cloud
