Senior Accountant
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MellowSleepHome goods, e-commerce
Remote (US-based)Full-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of accounting experience
- Required Skills
- ShopifyQuickBooks
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of accounting experience, including hands-on ownership of a monthly close.
- Be comfortable overseeing or reviewing the work of bookkeepers or junior staff.
- Have a solid US GAAP foundation and strong month-end close discipline.
- Have US multi-state sales tax compliance experience, including nexus, registrations, filings, and marketplace facilitator reconciliation.
- Have hands-on experience managing accounts payable and accounts receivable, including collections and aging management.
- Have some US partnership income tax experience, including comfort with K-1s and other applicable form filings and supporting the process alongside an external tax firm.
- Have hands-on QuickBooks experience; QuickBooks Online is preferred.
- Be comfortable reconciling e-commerce and marketplace data from Shopify, Amazon, and TikTok Shop to the books.
- Actively use AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude in accounting work and verify their output before relying on it.
- Communicate accounting or tax issues clearly to non-accountants.
- Preferred: CPA or equivalent certification; consumer products, home goods, e-commerce/retail, or big-box wholesale experience; familiarity with Avalara or TaxJar; experience overseeing bookkeeping or outsourced accounting partners; Power BI, SQL, or advanced Excel; international VAT/GST and multi-currency exposure; and experience building forecasts and budgets.
Responsibilities
- Build accounting processes, controls, a close calendar, and the structure needed for the accounting function to scale.
- Own the monthly close end to end and deliver accurate results on time.
- Oversee and review bookkeepers' journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals, and resolve escalated questions.
- Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable, including vendor payments, customer collections, and aging.
- Maintain data integrity between Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, retail portals, and the general ledger.
- Develop and maintain inventory accounting processes, including landed cost, cost layers, and inventory roll-forward.
- Maintain the chart of accounts and accounting policies, prepare financial statements and supporting schedules, and support audit/review readiness.
- Own US multi-state sales tax compliance, marketplace facilitator tax reconciliations, and sales tax automation tooling.
- Manage Canadian GST/HST and EU VAT compliance, and support partnership tax filings and partner-level reporting with the external tax firm.
- Support budgets, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, and daily and weekly cash flow reporting.
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