What You Will Do:
- Prepare, review, and post journal entries across various accounting areas in support of the monthly close process
- Perform and review account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely resolution of reconciling items
- Support a fast-paced close process, including variance analysis, flux explanations, and presentation of financial results in monthly accounting close meetings
- Maintain ownership of assigned areas of the general ledger, ensuring accounting is in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Own the end-to-end equity accounting process, including coordination with external administrators and advisors
- Prepare and review stock-based compensation accounting, entries, and supporting schedules
- Perform technical accounting research and support the preparation of accounting memos for complex or non-routine transactions
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across accounting processes, including close optimization, automation opportunities, and standardization
- Maintain and enhance documentation of accounting processes and procedures
- Serve as both a control owner and reviewer for key SOX controls
- Support internal and external audit requests, including walkthroughs, testing, and documentation preparation
- Provide functional oversight, guidance, and review support to staff accountants
- Partner with cross-functional teams across finance, operations, and other business functions
We are seeking a Senior Accountant to support our Americas accounting function within a dynamic global finance organization. This role, reporting to the Accounting Manager, will play a key part in the monthly close process, equity accounting, and maintaining a strong internal control environment within a publicly traded company.
This position combines hands-on accounting responsibilities, functional oversight of staff accountants, and ownership of key processes and controls, making it ideal for a candidate who is detail-oriented, collaborative, and driven to improve processes in a fast-moving environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
What It Takes:
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Background in public accounting with exposure to publicly traded companies
- Experience working in a SOX-compliant environment
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and general accounting principles
- CPA certification preferred
- Experience with equity accounting and stock-based compensation preferred
- Experience performing technical accounting research and drafting memos preferred
- Strong communication skills, ownership mindset, and collaborative approach
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Skilled in process improvement, cost control, and scalable systems
- Ability to drive efficiency, accuracy, and timely reporting
- High ethical standards and sound judgment
Required Qualifications: Minimal qualifications required in order to be considered for entry into the job
Education and Experience:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
What's In It For You:
- We offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:
- Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
- Dental and Vision
- Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid caregiver leave
- You will receive at least 3 weeks of PTO, Holiday Pay, and Volunteer Hours
- 401k with company match and immediate vest
- Employee Stock Purchase Program at a discounted rate
- Matching grants through Protolabs foundation
- And More!
Skills Required
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Background in public accounting with exposure to publicly traded companies
- Experience working in a SOX-compliant environment
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and general accounting principles
- CPA certification
- Experience with equity accounting and stock-based compensation
- Experience performing technical accounting research and drafting memos
- Strong communication skills, ownership mindset, and collaborative approach
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Skilled in process improvement, cost control, and scalable systems
- Ability to drive efficiency, accuracy, and timely reporting
- High ethical standards and sound judgment
Protolabs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Protolabs and has not been reviewed or approved by Protolabs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are broadly available and described as good to excellent. Additional protections like short- and long-term disability and life insurance bolster the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A starting PTO allotment plus paid holidays, along with added wellness and volunteer time, is emphasized, with some roles noting PTO growth over tenure. Paid caregiver leave appears in postings and supports flexibility for life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting is offered, supporting long-term savings. This foundation is frequently cited alongside core financial benefits as a strong element of total rewards.
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What We Do
Protolabs is the world's fastest digital manufacturing source for rapid prototyping and on-demand production. The technology-enabled company produces custom parts and assemblies in as fast as 1 day with automated 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding processes. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables accelerated time to market, reduces development and production costs, and minimizes risk throughout the product life cycle. 3D Printing Our 3D printing service offers a wide selection of materials and technologies to create prototypes and end-use parts with complex geometries and detailed features. With tight process controls, careful design reviews, and extensive quality monitoring, we ensure precise and repeatable 3D-printed parts, every time. CNC Machining We use 3- and 5-axis milling along with turning to machine parts from commercial-grade plastics and metals. Our online quoting system and automated manufacturing process enable us to ship parts within 24 hours, helping customers accelerate development and reduce time to market. Sheet Metal Fabrication Protolabs is an industry leader in quick-turn sheet metal parts for both prototyping and low-volume production. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables us to fabricate sheet metal parts in as fast as 5 days. Additionally, we can support our customers’ development efforts with component assemblies, several finish options, and screen printing. Injection Molding Our injection molding service offers two options—prototyping and on-demand manufacturing—which provide customers a tooling solution that aligns with their project’s requirements. It’s used for quick-turn prototyping, bridge tooling, and low-volume production of up to 10,000+ parts in 15 days or less.
