Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

This role is open to candidates based in LATAM, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Please note that as this role supports U.S.-based clients, candidates must be available to work during U.S. business hours aligned with the client's time zone.

Our client is a fast-growing consumer brand operating across retail, wholesale, DTC, and dropship channels. The company is seeking a highly hands-on Accountant to manage financial operations, improve financial accuracy, strengthen operational controls, and provide leadership with reliable financial data to support business decisions. This role sits at the intersection of accounting, operations, inventory, and financial analysis within a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Location

Fully Remote | 9 AM - 5 PM EST

Role Overview

The Senior Accountant will own the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of the company's financial books and operational accounting processes.

This is not a pure bookkeeping role. The position requires a highly operational finance professional who can manage reconciliations, deductions, inventory accounting, accounts receivable, budgeting oversight, financial reporting, and compliance while helping leadership maintain visibility into financial performance and operational risks.

The ideal candidate is highly hands-on, analytical, proactive, and comfortable operating within fast-moving and imperfect systems while taking ownership of financial accuracy and operational outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Books Ownership & Month-End Close

• Own the full general ledger and monthly close process end-to-end.
• Deliver accurate Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flow reports by agreed close deadlines.
• Support year-end close activities and external CPA workpaper preparation.
• Maintain a clean, logical, and consistent chart of accounts and class tracking structure.
• Ensure financial statements remain accurate, reviewable, and audit-ready.

Accounts Receivable & Deduction Management

• Track invoices and proactively manage collections.
• Gather, review, and apply sales and remittance details from vendor portals and EDI systems.
• Apply payments and reconcile customer accounts.
• Research and resolve short pays, chargebacks, deductions, and discrepancies.
• Monitor aging reports and address overdue accounts before escalation.
• Pursue valid chargeback reversals and document recovery outcomes.
• Manage retail chargebacks, compliance deductions, marketing allowances, and remittance discrepancies.
• Research, validate, and pursue retailer deduction recovery opportunities.
• Support relationships with large retail partners while maintaining accurate deduction management processes.

Inventory & COGS Accuracy

• Own landed cost calculations.
• Run inventory reconciliations and validate inventory balances against physical counts.
• Record approved inventory adjustments, shrink, and write-offs.
• Validate inventory purchases against budgets and cash flow considerations.
• Maintain inventory accounting accuracy across multiple sales channels.
• Support margin analysis through accurate inventory and cost reporting.

Reporting & Compliance

• Calculate product-level margin and contribution margin by SKU.
• Analyze margin performance across channels including Costco, Sam's Club, DTC, and other retail channels.
• Evaluate TPRs, discounts, markdowns, and promotional impacts on profitability.
• Monitor sales tax returns and submit corrections where needed.
• Support external CPA partners with financial statements, audits, and tax preparation materials.
• Surface financial trends, risks, discrepancies, and anomalies proactively to leadership.
• Support retail accrual accounting processes and maintain accrual accuracy.
• Analyze retailer deductions, marketing allowances, and compliance-related financial impacts.

Financial Operations & Business Support

• Ensure financial statements are accurate, reviewable, and delivered on schedule.
• Monitor budget overages and underages and bring attention to significant variances.
• Ensure taxes are filed accurately and on time across jurisdictions.
• Build streamlined reporting processes and reduce unnecessary ad hoc work.
• Contribute to operational and financial decision-making through data-backed recommendations.
• Generate actionable financial insights to support business planning and operational strategy.
• Standardize accounting processes and improve reporting consistency.
• Support integration of multiple systems into QuickBooks and improve accounting workflows.
• Work closely with the COO and CEO in a highly collaborative and fast-moving environment.
• Operate as the primary owner of the accounting function while maintaining strong financial controls.

Qualifications

Experience

• Experience managing full-cycle accounting and financial operations.
• Experience handling month-end close, reconciliations, accounts receivable management, and financial reporting.
• Experience working within retail, wholesale, ecommerce, DTC, or inventory-based businesses.
• Experience supporting inventory accounting, landed costs, and margin analysis.
• Experience managing retail chargebacks, deductions, short pays, and recovery processes.
• Experience with hands-on retail accrual accounting and accrual management.
• Experience managing deductions from large retailers such as Costco, Macy's, Sam's Club, or similar retail partners.
• Experience working with marketing allowances, remittances, promotional deductions, and retail compliance deductions.
• Mid-level to senior-level accounting experience with strong operational execution skills.
• Experience supporting financial analysis and providing business insights to leadership teams.
• Experience integrating multiple business systems into QuickBooks and standardizing accounting processes.
• Experience working within fast-paced and high-growth environments preferred.

Skills

• Strong spreadsheet and financial analysis skills.
• Strong understanding of accounting operations, reconciliations, and financial controls.
• Strong understanding of retail accounting operations and deduction management.
• Strong understanding of inventory accounting, landed costs, margin analysis, and operational finance.
• Ability to identify discrepancies, analyze financial issues, and implement solutions proactively.
• Ability to analyze financial performance and provide data-backed recommendations to leadership.
• Comfortable operating within messy or imperfect systems without losing momentum.
• Strong ownership mentality with the ability to independently manage accounting operations end-to-end.
• Ability to prioritize financial accuracy while balancing operational business needs.
• Direct communicator who is comfortable challenging assumptions and escalating issues when necessary.
• Calm under pressure and highly execution-focused.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to financial accuracy.
• Experience with QuickBooks, Bill.com, retailer portals, Shopify, Mirakl, DSCO/Rithum, Braintree, and PayPal preferred.
• Ability to streamline processes, improve reporting structures, and strengthen financial controls.

What Success Looks Like

• Leadership trusts the financial data and can make decisions confidently
• Month-end close is completed accurately and on time each month
• AR aging remains current and overdue accounts are proactively managed
• Deductions, chargebacks, short pays, and discrepancies are researched and resolved efficiently
• Inventory purchases are validated against budgets and cash flow before purchase orders are issued
• Financial reporting, reconciliations, and operational accounting processes remain accurate and reliable

Opportunity

This is an opportunity to step into a highly impactful operational accounting role within a fast-growing consumer brand. The right candidate will work closely with executive leadership, influence key business decisions, strengthen financial controls, and help build scalable accounting and operational processes across multiple sales channels. The role offers strong ownership, meaningful business impact, and exposure to complex ecommerce and retail financial operations.

Application Process:

To be considered for this role these steps need to be followed:

• Fill in the application form
• Record a video showcasing your skill sets