The Role
- You’ll be a core architect: Shape the team and its future direction.
- You’ll never be siloed: Work across functions and levels, directly impacting the company’s trajectory.
- You’ll grow as the team grows: Be positioned for advancement as new hires join under your leadership.
- Flexibility: No two days are the same; you’ll have broad scope and influence.
We have reached a stage of growth where our financial complexity—driven by global royalties, technology fees, and high-volume transactions—requires a dedicated technical expert who is comfortable managing the full accounting cycle.
In this role, you will be the primary person responsible for our day-to-day accounting operations while helping us stand up our formal FP&A function. You aren’t just overseeing the books; you are actively preparing them. This is a role for a technical accountant who wants to move beyond "just the numbers" to help us forecast our future and build the systems that will support our next phase of growth.
This is a hybrid full time position work from our New York, NY office. Our hybrid schedule requires employees to work from the office 4 days a week and allows for 1 day work from home.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes. This includes preparing journal entries, performing reconciliations, and ensuring our financial statements are accurate and delivered on time.
- Be the lead on our most complex accounting areas, specifically Revenue Recognition across our distribution and royalty streams.
- Cleaning up the Chart of Accounts; troubleshooting NetSuite sync errors.
- Maintaining the tax calendar; preparing documentation for annual 1099 filings.
- Manage and optimize our Ramp pipeline; ensuring correct department coding for all vendor invoices and expenses.
- Ensure we are compliant with GAAP as our transaction volume scales.
- Once the books are closed, you’ll help turn that data into insight. You will assist the Head of Finance in investigating budget-to-actual variances and building our first formal forecasting models and departmental budgets.
- As an early hire, you will identify where our current workflows are manual and implement automations, systems, or policies that will make our accounting & finance function more efficient and transparent.
- Work across all teams to help them understand their spending and the financial impact of their projects, translating accounting data into clear, actionable advice for the business.
- Ensure we remain "audit-ready" at all times by maintaining rigorous documentation and internal controls.
What We Are Looking For
- You have 5+ years of accounting experience, including at least 2 years in public accounting, and hold a CPA. Experience with SaaS, royalties, or digital media is a significant plus.
- You thrive in a lean, two-person environment without a ton of rigid structure. You view a blank canvas as an opportunity to build, rather than a source of frustration.
- You have a strong handle on technical revenue accounting and genuinely enjoy setting up and optimizing tools.
- Experience with NetSuite or similar ERPs is highly desirable. When a system glitches or a transaction doesn't reconcile, you love digging into the "why" to find a solution.
- You take pride in a perfect reconciliation and a clean audit trail.
- You are energized by high-level strategic growth, but equally comfortable staying grounded "in the weeds" of complex datasets and the day-to-day execution (invoice coding, reconciliations) required to keep a growing company healthy.
- In a small, growing company, you will interface constantly with cross-functional teams. You can easily translate a balance sheet, variance report, or complex accounting principle into plain, approachable language for a non-finance audience.
Why Work at Too Lost
- 🏥 Insurance — Health coverage via Anthem, plus Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- 💪 Wellness Packages — Up to $100/month toward gym memberships and wellness opportunities
- 🎵 Free Music Distribution — A free Too Lost account with unlimited music distribution, for life
- 🌴 40+ Paid Days Off — Disconnect and recharge throughout the year with our extensive company holidays and vacation time
- 🎉 Events & Discounts — Company-sponsored events and partner discounts
- 💰 401(k) Plan — Participation in our available 401(k) plans with company matching
We invest in our team with comprehensive benefits designed to support your health, growth, and creativity.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of accounting experience including at least 2 years in public accounting and CPA
- Technical revenue accounting and revenue recognition across distribution and royalty streams
- Experience with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, journal entries, and reconciliations
- Maintain GAAP compliance, audit-ready documentation, and internal controls
- Experience preparing documentation for annual 1099 filings and maintaining a tax calendar
- Experience building forecasting models, assisting with budget-to-actual analysis, and supporting FP&A
- Experience troubleshooting NetSuite sync errors and working with ERPs
- Experience with Ramp or similar expense management platforms
- Ability to implement automations, systems, or policies to streamline accounting workflows
- Strong cross-functional communication; translate accounting concepts for non-finance stakeholders
Too Lost Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Too Lost and has not been reviewed or approved by Too Lost.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes employer-paid medical via Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield with dental, vision, and life insurance, indicating a robust core package. Role descriptions consistently reference these coverages alongside other details.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A monthly wellness stipend (up to $100), company events/partner discounts, and a free lifetime account with unlimited music distribution provide quality-of-life and industry-relevant perks. These additions complement the core benefits for employees engaged in music creation.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible hours, some remote roles, and hybrid schedules are described, showing adaptability by role and location. This flexibility can support work-life balance where implemented.
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What We Do
Too Lost is a music and technology company, providing SaaS solutions for independent music rights holders. Our distribution and publishing services deliver, monetize and protect songs across the globe for over 450,000+ musicians, record labels, studios, brands, investors, and platforms.
Why Work With Us
Too Lost works on a hybrid schedule. We are in the office 4 days a week collaborating together and 1 work from home day each week. Additional Work from Home Days are available to request and allow flexibility as needed. Too Lost is a proud member of The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) and MERLIN. Headquartered in New York City.
