Senior Accountant
Richardson Sales Performance
3 days ago
Full-time
Remote
Finance & Professional Services
Role Description
As a Senior Accountant within our international Finance team, you will play a hands-on role supporting accounting operations, month-end and year-end close, and global compliance activities. This role requires strong accounting fundamentals, a high degree of autonomy, and the ability to reason through and navigate evolving requirements across multiple jurisdictions. Operating within a fast-paced, multinational technology-enabled professional services company spanning Europe, APAC, and North America. This role is ideal for an experienced accountant with strong US GAAP fundamentals, excellent reconciliation skills, and practical experience in Sales & Use Tax, VAT, or GST compliance.
Key Responsibilities
General Accounting & Financial Close
As a Senior Accountant within our international Finance team, you will play a hands-on role supporting accounting operations, month-end and year-end close, and global compliance activities. This role requires strong accounting fundamentals, a high degree of autonomy, and the ability to reason through and navigate evolving requirements across multiple jurisdictions. Operating within a fast-paced, multinational technology-enabled professional services company spanning Europe, APAC, and North America. This role is ideal for an experienced accountant with strong US GAAP fundamentals, excellent reconciliation skills, and practical experience in Sales & Use Tax, VAT, or GST compliance.
Key Responsibilities
General Accounting & Financial Close
- Prepare month-end and year-end close activities across multiple legal entities and currencies.
- Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, reclassifications, and standard close entries.
- Independently prepare complex accounting reconciliations, investigate reconciling items, and recommend treatment.
- Maintain clear and organized audit-ready workpapers to support financial reporting and external audits.
- Ensure compliance with global accounting policies and internal control standards.
- Perform monthly intercompany reconciliations and coordinate settlement with global teams.
- Support transfer pricing policies and ensure cross-charges and allocations follow internal policy guidelines.
- Support, actively participate, and collaborate in regional and consolidated external audits.
- Embrace and apply emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, to reduce manual workloads, improve data quality, and enhance effectiveness of accounting and compliance activities.
- Manage Sales & Use Tax compliance processes and Avalara administration.
- Coordinate VAT/GST compliance activities globally, partnering with external advisors while preparing supporting schedules and documentation.
- Prepare reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation for annual corporate income tax returns, partnering with external advisors.
- Monitor accounting and ERP processes to ensure compliance with tax and regulatory requirements.
- Manage registrations and communication with local jurisdictions.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA, ACA, CMA, or equivalent preferred.
- 4–6 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably including exposure to global, multi-entity environments
- Conceptual understanding of indirect tax principles — such as Sales & Use Tax, VAT, and GST — with the ability to reason through jurisdiction-specific requirements rather than simply having processed them.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP.
- Knowledge of multi-currency accounting.
- Avalara experience strongly preferred.
- Experience working with ERP systems; Certinia or Financial Force experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience supporting external audits.
- Proven ability to work effectively and independently in a remote environment, demonstrating self-direction, reliability, and clear communication without the need for close supervision.
- Operates at a senior level — takes ownership of problems end to end, troubleshoots ambiguity, and is ready to grow into higher-level responsibilities.
- Comfortable operating in a new or evolving environment; demonstrates intellectual curiosity and a genuine eagerness to learn unfamiliar processes, systems, and regulatory frameworks quickly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate across regions and time zones.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- High level of professionalism, discretion, and attention to detail.