Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skin Laundry is a multi-location business seeking a Senior Accountant to maintain accurate and timely financial records. The role owns key month-end close, general ledger, reconciliation, reporting, controls, audit support, automation, and process improvement activities while partnering with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior accountants.
Responsibilities
- Own assigned areas of the month-end and year-end close process, including journal entries, accruals, and account analysis
- Prepare and review balance sheet and income statement account reconciliations, ensuring timely resolution of variances
- Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts, ensuring transactions are properly classified and supported
- Perform monthly reconciliations for cash, prepaids, fixed assets, accrued liabilities, and other key balance sheet accounts
- Partner with Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Revenue teams to ensure sub-ledgers tie out to the general ledger
- Identify and resolve discrepancies proactively, escalating risk areas as needed
- Support preparation of accurate, timely monthly financial statements and management reporting packages
- Conduct variance analysis versus budget and prior periods; provide clear explanations to Accounting and Finance leadership
- Assist with schedules and supporting documentation for internal reporting and ad hoc analysis
- Support the design and execution of internal controls across assigned areas, ensuring compliance with company policy and US GAAP
- Serve as a key contributor to annual audit readiness; prepare audit schedules and respond to auditor requests
- Identify opportunities to strengthen controls and reduce risk across the close process
- Partner with the Controller and IT to optimize the ERP system, workflows, and close checklist
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate manual, repetitive accounting tasks
- Leverage AI-enabled tools to:
- Streamline reconciliations and flag anomalies for review
- Improve the speed and accuracy of variance analysis
- Reduce manual data entry across close and reporting processes
- Document and maintain SOPs to support consistency, training, and audit readiness
- Serve as a resource to Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Operations teams on accounting questions and month-end deliverables
- Mentor and provide guidance to Staff Accountants, supporting their technical development
- Partner with Field Leadership to ensure accurate accounting treatment of store-level activity
- Support accurate accounting for multi-location retail activity, including revenue, inventory, and location-level cost accounting
- Partner with Operations on lease accounting, fixed assets, and location openings/closures
- Help build scalable accounting processes that support continued store growth
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 4 years minimum of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on month-end close and general ledger ownership
- Experience in a multi-entity or multi-location business
- Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and internal controls
- Strong systems expertise (ERP systems; NetSuite experience a plus)
- Advanced Excel and data analysis skills; ability to translate data into insights and action
- Strong business acumen with the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on
- Excellent written and verbal communicator, able to translate accounting detail into clear takeaways for non-finance stakeholders (Field Leadership, Operations, and cross-functional partners)
- Intellectually curious and resourceful — takes initiative, asks thoughtful questions, and is comfortable navigating ambiguity with good judgment
- CPA or active pursuit of CPA license
- Experience in retail, multi-unit, or high-growth consumer business
- Demonstrated experience implementing automation and/or AI-enabled solutions within accounting or finance functions
Benefits
- Remote work for applicants located in AZ, CT, CO, FL, GA, MA, NJ, NV, PA, RI, TN, and TX
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