Senior Accountant

About us: Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products. Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.   We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together. Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

About the role: As a member of the Accounting team at Branch, you’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow the company and business. You will be a key player of a small team comprised of high performing accounting and finance professionals that work across departments to provide financial support to senior management and department leaders to facilitate decision making. The Senior Accountant serves as a critical link between the team’s daily accounting operations and the broader initiatives that help the function scale. This role is responsible for core accounting work supporting the financial close and extends into process automation, policy and procedure design and documentation, and representing the accounting function to cross-functional and external partners, giving this person a hand in both the details and the direction of how the accounting function operates.   Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:  - Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and other core accounting tasks in support of the team’s financial close and reporting processes as needed.   - Assist in researching, establishing, and maintaining financial accounting principles, practices, and procedures to ensure compliance with US GAAP - Support internal controls and audit readiness, including compliance administration tasks, coordination and fulfillment of audit requests, testing, and documentation.   - Design and document accounting processes and procedures, identifying opportunities for automation and improvements as Branch continues to scale.   - Own accounting projects and process gaps that fall outside standard workflows, such as unresolved reconciling items, or undocumented and/or inefficient processes, seeing through from investigation to resolution. - Partner cross-functionally to design, build, and implement new systems, processes, and solutions with impact across accounting, finance, treasury, data, and other teams.   Qualifications:  - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required - 3-5 years of relevant accounting experience required; high-growth payment/fintech experience a plus - 1-2 years of financial audit and/or consulting experience preferred - Working knowledge of US GAAP and technical accounting - Advanced Excel skills with the ability to work across large, complex datasets; SQL, Python, and other relevant experience a plus - Demonstrated ability to learn and adopt new systems and tools quickly, spanning accounting, reporting, and AI-enabled tools and platforms; familiarity with Claude/Cowork a plus - Comfortable operating across a wide range of systems and processes; experience with Sage Intacct, FloQast, Looker and/or other similar accounting and reporting platforms required - Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical accounting concepts and represent the team for cross-functional and external audiences Compensation: The base salary range for this role is  $120-130k.