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Senior Accountant delivering outsourced accounting, financial reporting, and technical guidance for BELAY clients. Reviewing complex transactions, supporting month-end close, and coaching accounting staff remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a primary accounting escalation point for client questions, accounting issues, and complex transactions
- Communicate directly with clients regarding accounting matters, financial results, and recommended actions
- Deliver accurate, timely, and meaningful financial reporting
- Identify accounting, process, and reporting challenges and recommend practical solutions
- Partner with Accounting Managers and Controllers to maintain client satisfaction and consistent service delivery
- Execute and oversee complex recurring accounting activities
- Perform month-end revenue entries and clearing account reconciliations
- Reconcile inventory and cost of goods sold and prepare journal entries
- Maintain prepaid, accrued, and deferred revenue schedules
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations
- Prepare and review financial statements
- Conduct variance analysis and investigation
- Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll accounting, sales tax, and 1099 activities
- Analyze financial results, gross profit margins, and key performance indicators
- Maintain accounting records in QuickBooks Online and other client systems
- Review work prepared by Staff Accountants and Bookkeepers
- Resolve accounting issues and provide technical guidance
- Ensure compliance with accounting principles, internal controls, BELAY standards, and client requirements
- Coach and support Staff Accountants and Bookkeepers through complex accounting matters
- Support onboarding and cross-training
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, efficiency, accuracy, and automation
- Develop and maintain accounting processes, SOPs, and best practices
- Support client onboarding, transitions, and special projects
- Collaborate across BELAY teams to improve the client experience
Requirements:
- Candidate must reside in the U.S. in Eastern or Central Time Zones
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 4-8 years of accounting experience, preferably in client-service or outsourced accounting environments
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial statements, and month-end close processes
- Proficiency with QuickBooks Online and related applications such as BiLL, Gusto, Shopify, Amazon, Fathom, and Cin7, or comparable platforms
- Excellent communication skills and client service orientation
- Ability to manage multiple clients and deadlines in a remote environment
- High attention to detail, organization, and follow-through
- Experience supporting or reviewing Staff Accountants or Bookkeepers preferred
- Experience with inventory, e-commerce, or other complex accounting environments preferred
- Experience with financial analysis, KPIs, cash flow, and gross margin preferred
- Experience identifying process improvements and implementing accounting efficiencies preferred
- Strong technical accounting and analytical skills
- Strong problem-solving and investigative skills
- Ability to review work, identify issues, and provide constructive feedback
- Strong client communication and relationship management skills
- Ability to explain accounting concepts clearly to clients and team members
- Strong coaching, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing skills
- Ability to prioritize competing deadlines while maintaining accuracy and quality
- Sound judgment and ability to recognize when issues require escalation
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new systems, technologies, and processes
- Demonstrated accountability, ownership, and professional maturity
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Must reside in the U.S. Eastern or Central Time Zones
- BELAY is unable to hire employees in California, New York, Illinois, or Oregon
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- BELAY covers 70% of employee medical premiums and 65% of dependent medical premiums
- BELAY covers 70% of employee dental and vision premiums
- Company-paid life insurance ($15,000 coverage)
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan through Vanguard with a 4% employer discretionary match
- 15 days of annual PTO for full-time 40-hour employees; 12 days for full-time 30-hour employees
- Additional PTO at 3- and 5-year tenure milestones
- 12 paid holidays annually
- Full-time remote work
- Dedicated, distraction-free home office
- Occasional travel for some roles
- Award-winning company culture
- Full-time exempt W-2 employment
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