[Hiring] Senior Accountant @LeadSimple

Role Description

We’re looking for a hands-on accountant to own our monthly close and keep our financial records accurate, current, and easy to understand. You’ll do the detailed work, follow discrepancies through to resolution, and give leadership a reliable view of the business each month.

Monthly accounting and reporting are the core of this role. You’ll also support a focused set of revenue operations tasks:

• Keeping billing accurate
• Coordinating collections
• Preparing commission accruals
• Making sure revenue data agrees across systems

What you’ll own

• Monthly close and financial reporting
  • Run the monthly close from start to finish, with a clear checklist, timeline, and ownership for every step
  • Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, and adjustments; maintain supporting schedules for revenue, deferred revenue, prepaid expenses, and other balance sheet accounts
  • Reconcile bank, credit card, and balance sheet accounts; investigate discrepancies and resolve outstanding items
  • Bring together accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll inputs, and expense records so the books are complete and correctly categorized
  • Prepare the monthly income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow reporting, with a concise explanation of material changes and unusual items
  • Keep documentation organized and reviewable, and coordinate with internal partners and outside accounting support to get missing information and close on time
• Light revenue operations
  • Check customer billing against agreed terms and subscription changes; work with customer-facing teams to resolve errors
  • Maintain visibility into overdue receivables and coordinate follow-up with the people who own the customer relationship
  • Calculate and reconcile commissions and related accruals using approved compensation plans
  • Reconcile billing and revenue records across operational systems and the general ledger, and flag inconsistencies in recurring-revenue reporting
• Make the process better
  • Document recurring work, reduce unnecessary manual steps, and build checks that catch problems before close
  • Surface financial risks and data gaps early, with a practical recommendation for resolving them

What success looks like in your first 90 days

• You understand the accounting systems, recurring entries, revenue flows, and open reconciliation items
• You own a documented close calendar and deliver accurate monthly financials on an agreed schedule
• Key balance sheet accounts have clear supporting schedules, and unresolved items have an owner and a plan
• Billing, collections, and commission workflows have simple, repeatable checks
• Leadership can understand the monthly results and trust the numbers behind them

Qualifications

• Experience personally owning month-end close and preparing financial statements
• Strong working knowledge of accrual accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, and revenue recognition
• The ability to trace a number from the source transaction through the financial statements and explain what happened
• Confidence working in accounting software and spreadsheets, including reconciling data across systems
• Careful judgment with confidential information and a habit of maintaining clear documentation
• Crisp communication, dependable follow-through, and the initiative to solve problems without waiting to be asked

Especially useful

• Experience with B2B SaaS or another subscription business
• Familiarity with deferred revenue, recurring-revenue metrics, billing systems, and sales commission calculations
• Experience improving a lean accounting operation and working with outside accounting partners