Senior Staff Accountant

Location: Portland, Oregon 

Hybrid Role On-Site 3 days

At Straub Collaborative, our teams are well-versed in developing stable workflows and infrastructure to handle 500, 2000, or 50,000 samples at a time. We can be in your distribution center and manage 24-hour turnarounds. We can help you build style guides, manage your DAMs, and leverage your product data in more efficient ways.

We don’t stand up and wave our arms. We don’t push. We don’t overpromise and under-deliver. We sit at YOUR table. And give you exactly what you need — quality, high-volume, fast-turn content — exactly when you need it. With studios and resources around the world, we can help you reach the content scalability and production redundancy you’re looking for without losing your brand’s uniqueness.

The Senior Staff Accountant will support the Controller in all tasks leading to monthly and annual closing. This individual will work closely with our Project Management team to forecast invoicing/cash flow and review project profitability. The main task for the first three months will be completing systems integration to Gravity and closing prior months, to ensure systems data is accurate.

Key Responsibilities:

• General accounting tasks including inputting data into the general ledger, account reconciliations, journal entries, and review of billing / payable data.
• Support the controller with a system migration.
• Financial modeling for new business opportunities and providing variances in project revenue and expenses.
• Prepare financial reports including budget versus actuals and variances.
• Analysis and review of company expenditures, confirming proper allocation of expenses to the various projects, and departments, and reporting to the various departments as necessary.
• Analysis of project actuals and estimates, recording details into databases, and meeting with project managers to understand variances.
• Month-end close responsibilities, including Profit & Loss analysis, accrued expenses, accounts payable, and various other balance sheet reconciliations.
• Reviewing invoices and revenue to ensure accuracy and compliance with GAAP.
• Review budgets to actuals and make notes of variances.
• Seeking ways to improve accounting processes and procedures both nationally and internationally.
• Assisting with and handling special projects as needed.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience as a staff accountant within the fashion, apparel, footwear, retail, beauty, cosmetics, or lifestyle industries preferred.
• 3+ years of current QuickBooks experience. The Senior Accountant must be able to prepare journal entries, financial statements, reconciliations, and financial analyses of our accounts in QuickBooks.
• Must have experience with financial modeling and project accounting experience.
• Experience assisting with annual external audits.
• Experience with local and state tax filings.
• Experience with accounting in multiple currencies.
• Experience with advanced accounting systems (I.E., Mineral Tree, Gravity, Quickbooks, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP).
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Self-starter, quick learner, and ability to multi-task on a regular basis.
• Experience in a role that requires substantial multi-tasking and prioritization skills in a deadline driven environment.
• Strong verbal/written communication skills and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent.

Straub Collaborative offers excellent benefits, including:

• 401(k) matched at 4%
• Full medical, dental, vision 
• Health Care Spending Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (for healthcare & dependent care)
• Life insurance, disability, and accidental death covered by company at 100%
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Flexible paid time off 
• Company lunches & events (at Studio locations)

Culture/ EEO Statement:

Straub Collaborative embraces diversity in a profound way and believes in the power of a shared table to bring people together as we are committed to building a culturally inclusive team. We see diversity and inclusion as central to our organization. This means that we stand up against discrimination and harassment wherever we operate.

Straub Collaborative is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) and equal pay to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.