About BrightEdge
BrightEdge is a leading SEO, search, and brand visibility platform helping companies understand how their digital presence drives real business results. Founded in 2007, we’re trusted by thousands of organizations across more than 80 countries, including brands like Microsoft and Visa. Our platform combines powerful data with AI-driven insights to help customers plan, optimize, and measure their digital marketing strategies and understand how their brand is showing up across an evolving search landscape.
What sets BrightEdge apart is our people. With 400+ employees across 7 global offices, we foster a collaborative, curious, and supportive environment where smart ideas are encouraged, and impact is visible. If you enjoy solving meaningful problems, working with data and technology, learning new things, and helping shape the future of digital marketing, BrightEdge is a great place to build your career.
About The Role
BrightEdge is hiring a Senior Accountant to own our procure-to-pay (PTP) process end to end, from purchasing and AP through T&E, accruals, and the resulting GL impact. This is a hands-on role in our Chicago finance team, reporting directly to the Controller.
BrightEdge Technologies is a SaaS company headquartered in San Mateo, California. This position is based in Chicago and is in the office five days a week. You will manage one offshore team member who focuses on T&E and also supports AP.
How You'll Spend Your Time
- Own the PTP cycle: Manage purchasing, PO processing, vendor invoices, AP, payment runs, and vendor relationships.
- Oversee T&E: Review employee reimbursements and corporate card transactions for policy compliance, supporting documentation, and accurate GL and department coding; direct offshore support and submit transactions for Controller approval.
- Maintain reconciliations: Ensure accurate, supportable bank and credit card reconciliations.
- Leverage AI and automation: Improve the efficiency, accuracy, and controls of PTP workflows.
- Support monthly close: Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, calculate and post accruals, and provide supporting schedules and documentation.
- Analyze financial results: Perform monthly income statement variance analysis, investigate fluctuations, and document key drivers.
- Manage intercompany accounting: Prepare and post journal entries across domestic and international subsidiaries in NetSuite, ensuring accurate balances and accounting treatment.
- Support cross-border transactions: Apply working knowledge of foreign currency and intercompany AP accounting.
- Provide billing support: Serve as backup for billing and collections.
- Document processes: Build and maintain clear documentation to ensure continuity, coverage, and effective handoffs.
We're Excited About You if You Have
- Education: Accounting degree or equivalent accounting education.
- Experience: 4+ years of hands-on accounting experience, including AP and month-end close.
- Accounting knowledge: Working knowledge of US GAAP, accruals, and account reconciliations.
- Systems: Hands-on NetSuite experience and proficiency in Excel.
- AI adoption: Regular use of AI tools, with examples of improving efficiency, accuracy, or processes.
- In-office commitment: Ability to work onsite in our Chicago office five days a week.
- Communication: Ability to work effectively with vendors, budget owners, and offshore teammates across time zones.
- Salesforce: Experience working in Salesforce.
- Expense management: Experience administering expense or spend management systems.
- Process improvement: Experience implementing finance systems, workflows, or policies.
- Industry experience: Background in SaaS or high-growth technology companies.
Benefits:
- Motivating, high-impact work that builds your career
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with multiple package options
- 15-23 days PTO depending on tenure plus 10 paid holidays
- Pet insurance to keep your fur family happy and healthy
- Pre-tax commuter benefit plan and company contribution to help reduce parking/public transit costs
- No or low cost therapy and professional coaching sessions through Spring Health
- 4-6 weeks fully paid parental leave
Skills Required
- Accounting degree or equivalent accounting education
- 4+ years of hands-on accounting experience, including accounts payable and month-end close
- Working knowledge of US GAAP, accruals, and account reconciliations
- Hands-on NetSuite experience
- Proficiency in Excel
- Regular use of AI tools with examples of improving efficiency, accuracy, or processes
- Ability to work onsite in the Chicago office five days a week
- Ability to work effectively with vendors, budget owners, and offshore teammates across time zones
- Experience working in Salesforce
- Experience administering expense or spend management systems
- Experience implementing finance systems, workflows, or policies
- Background in SaaS or high-growth technology companies
What We Do
As brands have become publishers, the digital world has become the most important distribution channel. The BrightEdge Content Performance Marketing platform helps brands Target Demand, Create and Optimize Content, and Measure Results to win on the content battleground. BrightEdge transforms online content into tangible business results, such as traffic, revenue, and engagement. Our platform is powered by an Artificial Intelligence engine, DataMind, and is the only company capable of web-wide, real-time measurement of digital content engagement across all digital channels, including search, social, and mobile.
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