[Hiring] Staff Accountant @Expel

Role Description

Are you tired of being on the hamster wheel of public or private accounting? You just finished closing the books yesterday, only to have to start the process all over again today. Or perhaps you’ve audited things for said company during a “busy season” that stopped being particularly seasonal. Wouldn’t it be nice to kiss that life goodbye and work with folks who embrace change and constant improvement while sporting a modern stack of finance tools to save your precious time?

Welcome to Expel... we’d like you to help us do just that! For this role you’ll report to our Manager, Financial Reporting and join a rapidly-maturing, agile accounting team ready for whatever our future holds. We’ve adopted a “continuous close” approach that allows us to boast a speedy 2-day monthly close while maintaining our “customer service” reputation with other teams and still have bandwidth to knock out bigger key priorities and personal projects to help drive innovation and improvement in the overall business.

We like to say that accountants aren’t boring people, we just get excited over boring things. We’re on the lookout for someone that can match our enthusiasm for breaking through the status quo of accounting. This includes things like bookkeeping, reconciliations, payroll, reporting, tax compliance, audit preparations, etc.

We're not just looking for someone who can balance books but also someone who can balance humor with humility. If you're the type to share your last paperclip and tell accounting jokes that even your grandmother would giggle at, you're the one! If you're ready to join our fellowship and embark on epic financial adventures, hit the apply button and let the quest begin!

Qualifications

• A strong service mentality to drive internal customer joy.
• The ability to translate accounting jargon into accessible concepts for all audiences.
• A desire to be on the hunt for new ways to improve both yourself and the company.
• Experience or familiarity with modern tools like Sage Intacct or Netsuite, Workday, Airbase, FloQast, Navan, and Expensify.
• Advanced skill with Google Sheets and/or Excel (data manipulation, charts, formulas, pivots, group/outline, etc).
• 1-3 years of experience in GAAP or Tax accounting.
• A degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent.
• CPA or CPA eligible preferred.
• Public accounting or SaaS experience required.

Requirements

• Ensure accuracy of our monthly close process and support timely and reliable reporting.
• Continue maturing our accounting practices to maintain accuracy and quality while increasing scale.
• Partner closely with internal business partners to develop creative solutions to business challenges and transaction workflows (related to your financial statement areas) through process optimization and standardization.
• Operate a subset of the suite of Finance systems and applications (Navan, Expensify, Workday, etc.) with an eye towards optimizing tools, processes, and procedures; including the seamless onboarding and offboarding of users in finance applications.
• Assist in areas of the general ledger including payroll, accruals, and debt accounting.
• Assist the finance team with larger projects such as annual audits.
• Process and reconcile payroll-related journal entries in the GL, ensuring payroll expenses, tax withholdings, and benefit deductions are recorded accurately and on time.
• Balance the non-standard stuff that surprises you and strive to get ahead of it.
• Make constant money-related puns and, of course, “Mind the GAAP”.

Benefits

• Offer a great deal of career growth opportunities.
• The opportunity to work with a highly motivated team.
• Hands-on experience with Workday, one of the most sought-after platforms in enterprise finance and HR — you’ll deepen your expertise in a tool that opens doors.
• Provide the autonomy to define and prioritize problems and also propose and implement their solutions.
• Ensure you get the support, mentoring, and feedback that you need to be successful.
• Develop your understanding of the cybersecurity market and its macro environment.

Additional Notes

• While our headquarters are located in Herndon, VA, we are open to those based remotely who can make quarterly trips to the office for team touchdowns.
• The base salary range for this role is between $65,000 USD and $90,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.
• We're an Equal Opportunity Employer: You'll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
• We’ll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please let us know if you need accommodation of any kind.
• We're only hiring those authorized to work in the United States. We do not currently sponsor immigration visas.
• We believe in paying transparently and equitably. Your salary will ultimately be based on factors such as your experience, skills, team equity, and market data. You’ll also be eligible for unlimited PTO (which we model and encourage), work location flexibility, up to 24 weeks of parental leave, and excellent health benefits.