Key skills
SaaSSales
About this role
Role Overview
- Own key areas of the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close with full accountability for accuracy and timeliness.
- Prepare and review complex journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
- Maintain strong balance sheet hygiene; proactively identify and resolve variances.
- Partner with the Assistant Controller to accelerate close timelines and improve close quality.
- Apply GAAP with confidence across revenue, accruals, reserves, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and software capitalization.
- Support ASC 606 and other technical accounting areas by preparing schedules, analyses, and documentation.
- Identify accounting implications of non-standard transactions and escalate appropriately.
- Participate in technical accounting research and memo preparation.
- Design, document, and improve accounting processes and internal controls.
- Identify inefficiencies, root causes, and control gaps; propose and implement solutions.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, audit standards, and SOX-lite controls.
- Serve as a trusted partner during audits; deliver clean, well-supported schedules.
- Work closely with FP&A, Billing, AR, AP, Payroll, and cross-functional teams (Sales Ops, Product, Legal).
Requirements
- 5–8 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Strong background in SaaS, technology, or subscription-based businesses.
- Experience in a public-company-ready or audit-heavy environment preferred.
- CPA or CPA-track strongly preferred.
- Deep knowledge of GAAP.
- Working knowledge of ASC 606 (revenue recognition) and SaaS billing concepts.
- Strong understanding of accrual accounting and balance sheet management.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, complex reconciliations).
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Robust benefits
- Professional development opportunities