Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant Opportunity

Our client is building a disruptive new consumer brand that has been well received in the market and is rapidly growing a following and revenues. The Company needs to build out the accounting group to keep up with this growth. Our client is seeking a smart, results-oriented, highly motivated, and opportunistic Senior Accountant. This role reports directly to the Controller and has huge growth potential, with the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and gain insight into cross functional areas of the business within a high growth start-up environment and culture.

The selected individual will be responsible for managing many areas of the day-to-day accounting functions of the Company, including payables, cash, expenses, prepaid monies, accruals and fixed assets, with the opportunity to grow and expand into more complex areas of accounting. The role will also help build out accounting processes and controls, assist in the monthly close process, year-end audit, tax items and compliance, and help with various other ad hoc projects.

Responsibilities include managing daily work and related journal entries over accounts payable and related expenses, cash, prepaid transactions, fixed assets, accruals with exposure to inventory and revenues and the related monthly close for each of the accounts. The role also involves owning the payables process to ensure all payables and expenses are properly input, recognized at the proper time and correlate to executed contracts and agreements, working cross functionally with different departments.

Additionally, the Senior Accountant will assist in the build out of Company policies, processes and controls. They will also assist in the year-end audit as well as other off year-end audits as they come up, work closely with the operations team to assist in inventory accounting, and help implement NetSuite processes and controls, becoming a power user within the system. The individual must maintain high standards of quality and attention to detail, ensuring only the best work is performed. They will collaborate across the organization while using best practices in GAAP and accrual accounting.

Key requirements include 2-3 years experience in an accounting role as either in house accounting or public accounting, a Bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance, ability to learn quickly and grasp the role with oversight from the Controller, with a large opportunity for growth, strong command in excel and ability to quickly learn new technology, hard working, self-motivated and highly intelligent person who is willing to get in the weeds and learn all facets of accounting from the Controller, offering a huge growth opportunity in a fast-growing start-up environment, ability to tackle several projects simultaneously and work well within a fast-paced and growing organization, a strong desire and ability to take in information and learn all areas of accounting over the course of the job, exposure to NetSuite a plus, inventory experience a plus, and ability to commute to our office in North Reading, MA with some hybrid availabilities (in-person preferred).