Senior Staff Accountant

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Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
5-7 Years Experience
Information Technology
The Role
The Senior Staff Accountant will handle month-end close tasks, manage GL accounting, perform balance sheet reconciliations, and collaborate with finance on budget tracking and expense reconciliation. This role also involves accounts payable processing, vendor communication, process optimization, tax planning, and participating in special projects.
Summary Generated by Built In

GOBankingRates.com is a leading destination for personal finance news and information. 

Launched by Jeff Bartlett and Brett Rossmann in 2004, GOBankingRates (formerly ConsumerTrack) connects people with products and services that help them to lead a richer life.

We are a multi-media content platform covering all aspects of your personal finance journey. Our curated editorial content, videos and podcasts utilize expert insight to teach readers the six key principles of financial literacy: how to earn, save, invest, spend, borrow and protect money. We strive to give readers the confidence they need to feel empowered about making smart financial decisions today, tomorrow and into the future


HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

  • Be a vital member of the Accounting team owning month-end close tasks, with primary focus on Expense recognition and related processes
  • General Ledger (GL) accounting - calculation, analysis, and preparation of journal entries (recurring and ad hoc), ensuring data integrity and accurate, complete, and timely record keeping and financial reporting
  • Perform Balance Sheet reconciliations and maintain schedules/roll-forwards (e.g., cash, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, credit cards, deferrals)
  • Procurement (P2P) - Work as a trusted partner with all employees to manage company expense policies and procedures, including Purchase Order entry
  • Work closely with Finance in Budget-to-actual spend tracking, reconciling expenses across multiple systems
  • Accounts Payable (AP) – verify, classify, and record company expenses and payments ensuring accurate and timely processing
  • Manage incoming and outgoing department communications on a daily basis, contacting vendors, partners, and collaborating with all internal and external stakeholders
  • Analyze accounts, monitor trends, and flag anomalies, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely insight into all financial transactions
  • Partner with Financial Planning team in gathering data for deep dive analysis and financial models needs (cash flow forecasting and media campaign profitability analysis)
  • Actively collaborate cross-functionally with multiple departments (People, Media, Sales, etc.) on new and existing initiatives
  • Be a key contributor to process changes and financial systems optimization initiatives
  • Assist with Tax planning and payment management
  • Participate in special projects and ad hoc analyses

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
  • Extensive US GAAP knowledge, CPA preferred
  • Approximately 6 years of related work experience (public/private accounting)
  • Experience working in technology, media, or digital advertising company a plus
  • Extremely detail-oriented and very high level of accuracy – you take ownership in your work
  • Excellent, proactive written and verbal communication skills
  • High level of accountability and follow through
  • Ability to set priorities and work independently as well as being a team player
  • Goal-oriented with a focus on process improvement and desire to learn and improve
  • Must be hands-on and comfortable with learning and building new processes from scratch
  • NetSuite or related ERP system experience required
  • Proficiency in Excel and Google sheets, as well as strong data analytic skills

Benefits

  • 100% Remote 
  • Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.
  • Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution
  • Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs
  • Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
  • Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills
  • Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment
  • 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, GOBankingRates matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary

We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.


Top Skills

NetSuite
The Company
HQ: El Segundo, CA
300 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

GOBankingRates ia a leading personal finance destination educating our audience on their money in order to LiveRicher. Our expertise includes customer acquisition, education and awareness, audience targeting and expansion and distribution across our own properties as well as Comscore Top Financial publishing partners for Fortune 1000 brands and advertisers. GOBankingRates has been a growing and profitable digital business based in Los Angeles with offices in New York and Pennsylvania for almost a decade and a half.

GOBankingRates is unique as we build and scale our own consumer-facing websites with millions of monthly users as well as drive brand awareness and new customer acquisition for our Fortune 1000 advertisers.

We are a leading personal finance site that partners with most of the larger financial portals, including MSN.com, CNN, CNBC, BusinessInsider, Time/Money/Fortune and others to give our advertisers incredible reach across billions of monthly impressions for their ads, content, and video.

Our in-house Editorial and Design Teams create original content, articles, and tools daily for GOBankingRates.com and custom content for the brands that we work with.

Our intent-driven audience seeks out our award-winning personal finance content to educate themselves on their financial situation and how to take action to improve it, to save money when shopping, best opportunities for investing and loans as well as travel ideas and budgets.

Our Culture

The biggest asset we have is our Team. We promote an entrepreneurial, friendly, results-focused remote culture that applauds innovation and embraces change. Our smart, passionate and driven employees are constantly encouraged to reach higher and think outside of the box, while enjoying high levels of collaboration. Our core values are centered around The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Join Our Team

With an agile, diverse and highly skilled team, ConsumerTrack is confident about taking on toug

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