[Hiring] Lead Accountant @Hologram

Role Description

The Lead Accountant owns the execution layer of Hologram's accounting function: the monthly close, balance sheet reconciliations, revenue recognition support under ASC 606, and the full corporate compliance calendar. Reporting to the Associate Controller, you'll run recurring close and reconciliation workstreams end-to-end with light oversight, not close supervision. You'll also own billing, collections, and daily cash across Stripe, Shopify, wire, and ACH for a usage-based business.

What You'll Do:

• Close and reporting:
  • Run the monthly close: journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and GAAP financial statements, reviewed and signed off by the Associate Controller.
  • Prepare revenue recognition support under ASC 606 across usage, hardware, and prepaid billing, and surface exceptions early.
  • Prepare supporting schedules for the annual audit, corporate tax filings, and diligence requests, and manage the auditor request cycle.
  • Prepare and file annual 1099s.
• Corporate compliance:
  • Own the compliance calendar end to end, and build it into a system with named owners, real deadlines, and alerting.
  • Manage Secretary of State annual reports, franchise tax, and local business licenses in partnership with our registered agent.
  • Intake, log, and resolve state and local tax notices, including direct contact with agencies.
  • Coordinate annual business insurance renewals with our broker and issue certificates of insurance to customers, vendors, and lessors.
  • Complete statutory annual filings and surveys.
  • Run point in yearly external audit.
  • Document the work as you go, so every recurring obligation has a runbook someone else could follow.
• Billing, AR, and cash:
  • Own collections end to end: AR aging, dunning, billing contact follow-up, and at-risk account escalation.
  • Generate customer invoices across Stripe and Shopify, and manage billing schedules, credit memos, and billing adjustments.
  • Manage prepaid top-ups, renewals, and prepaid-to-postpaid conversions.
  • Execute daily cash application and bank reconciliation, and reconcile payments across Stripe, wire, and ACH.
  • Process and route AP invoices, chase missing vendor invoices ahead of close, and keep vendor and customer billing records current.
  • Resolve complex multi-team billing disputes and triage finance tickets in HelpScout and Linear within a 24-hour SLA.
• Process and systems:
  • Find the manual work that shouldn't be manual and fix it, using the tools available and AI where it fits.
  • Support the NetSuite implementation and ongoing optimization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Experience owning full-cycle month-end close.
• Strong understanding of GAAP, with hands-on experience in revenue recognition, leases, and credit losses.
• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment where you built processes rather than inherited them.
• Comfortable owning a wide range of work rather than one narrow lane.
• Revenue recognition experience (ASC 606) in a usage-based or multi-element billing environment.
• Multi-state compliance experience: Secretary of State filings, franchise tax, and state and local tax notices.
• Experience supporting an external financial statement audit as a preparer.
• Experience making accounting processes faster and more reliable through automation and AI, without compromising controls or accuracy.
• Produces work that holds up without rework, catching your own errors before they reach review.
• Advanced Excel and comfort learning new systems quickly.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: All employees receive equity at hire and given transparent salary and equity formulas across the team.
• Health & time off: Flexible health coverage (up to 100% employee, 95% dependents), unlimited PTO with 2 weeks mandatory, monthly mental health days, and 14 weeks paid parental leave.
• Remote work support: $1,000 hiring bonus plus $250/month WFH Stipend (taxable) to help support your home office, productivity, professional development, or coworking expenses.
• Financial security: Life and disability insurance fully covered, 401(k) plan (no match), and access to our Professional Development Fund after one year.