Senior Accountant

Our Opportunity: 

We’re looking for an enthusiastic senior accountant who has demonstrated the ability to deliver results in a high-growth, dynamic and fast-paced environment to join our UK finance team.  This role will assist with the monthly financial close process for the UK location.  This position will also play a key role in process documentation, improvement and integration, as well as rolling out ongoing finance process improvement initiatives. 

You’ll spend your time:

• Identifying and recording monthly journal entries into our NetSuite accounting system as part of the financial close while adhering to the deadlines outlined in our monthly close calendar.
• Ensuring that each account on the UK trial balance has been reconciled and signed off in FloQast; working with internal groups for open issues and driving them to resolution.
• Performing flux analysis on the financials monthly to explain material movements in account balances and headcount with adequate commentary.
• Documenting our processes and evaluating our internal controls for the receivables, payroll, payables, fixed assets and other general ledger cycles and updating them at regular intervals; this includes working with cross functional teams to identify problems and process issues, developing and implementing creative solutions.
• Collaborating with internal teams such as the IT department to ensure our fixed asset records are accurate/reconciled and the revenue team to ensure the collectibility of receivables and reasonableness of revenue, deferred revenue and commissions.
• Calculating and supporting the review and submission of quarterly VAT returns.
• Strong collaboration with the FP&A team to ensure all expenses are booked and/or allocated to the proper cost center.
• Ad-hoc tasks including supporting option grants/exercises processing along with corresponding filing and taxation.
• Proactively identifying process automation and improvement opportunities so that our processes are scalable and optimized.

You should apply if you:

• Have 4 + years of experience working in either public accounting or within the corporate finance department of a multinational company
• Possess the following characteristics:
  • team player
  • solid interpersonal skills, both written and oral
  • ability to adapt quickly to changes in a dynamic environment in terms of both organizational structure and process
  • capable of meeting tight deadlines
  • proactive and problem-solving attitude
• Have a strong understanding of UK GAAP and FRS 102.
• Demonstrates strong excel skills using advanced functions such as VLOOKUP and pivot tables.
• have experience working on cross-functional teams in terms of implementing new systems and creating the related process documentation.
• Are experienced in supporting external audits and preparing and explaining flux analysis for an entity that provides solid explanations for account variances.

We’d especially love to hear from you if you:

• Have a professional accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and a solid understanding of financial reporting standards.
• Have experience preparing and providing required support for SOX compliance.
• Have experience working in a SaaS company.
• Are proficient in NetSuite, FloQast, and Workday systems.

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