Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Magic Mind is hiring a Senior Accountant to own accrual-basis accounting and financial operations for its multi-channel CPG business. The role leads monthly close and reporting, manages revenue, trade, inventory, and finance operations, and supports forecasting and analysis while helping build the finance team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the monthly accrual-basis financial close, from close calendar through final sign-off
- Prepare the monthly financial reporting package and accounting workbooks
- Structure and maintain the chart of accounts
- Apply GAAP-aligned income statement classifications (e.g. contra revenue)
- Complete monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, including credit card reconciliations
- Provide audit support, including PBC requests, schedules, and auditor coordination
- Recognize and post revenue by channel (e.g. Shopify, Amazon, retail distributors), including consignment revenue
- Perform cash application, matching customer, distributor, and marketplace payments to open invoices and remittances
- Account for promotion and trade spend, including monthly promotion accruals
- Book monthly freight accruals
- Perform monthly inventory reconciliations and inventory-to-general-ledger reconciliation
- Manage the accounting, AP, and AR inboxes, including intake and routing
- Manage the accounts payable workflow end to end
- Classify and post expense transactions
- Run payroll and initiate wires
- Manage sales tax compliance, filings, and nexus tracking
- Manage 1099 compliance, including vendor W-9 collection, tracking, and annual filings
- Manage the company virtual mailbox
- Perform monthly variance analysis (actual vs. budget, forecast, and prior period) with clear commentary
- Build and maintain channel-level contribution margin and analysis
- Prepare allocation models with sound workpapers to derive per unit profitability
- Update the operating model with monthly actuals and prepare forecasting documents
- Prepare commission reports for sales and broker partners
- AP / AR management
- Onboard and train new finance and accounting hires
- Use AI tools to automate recurring workflows, and document what you build
Skills
- 4+ years of accounting experience at a CPG brand, ideally early-stage or high-growth
- Hands-on experience with revenue across DTC, retail, and Amazon, including distributor and marketplace settlements
- Strong understanding of trade spend, promotion accruals, and contra revenue classification
- Proven experience with inventory accounting, costing, and reconciliations
- Experience tying inventory to the general ledger and working with co-manufacturers, 3PLs, or consignment arrangements
- You have already adopted AI in your accounting workflows and can walk us through real examples
- You look for ways to automate recurring close, reconciliation, and reporting tasks
- Proven experience leading an accrual-basis month-end close in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable running finance operations: payroll, AP, wires, sales tax, and 1099s
- Exceptional attention to detail, strong Excel / Google Sheets skills, and a high bar for accuracy
- High EQ/IQ soulful killer
- Organized, curious, and proactive
- Comfortable in fast-moving, iterative environments
- Natural collaborator who can work effectively across time zones and departments
- Entrepreneurial attitude towards problem solving and self-starting, ie., high agency
- CPA, QuickBooks Online experience, or exposure to retail distributors (e.g. KeHE, UNFI) is a plus
- Energized by building a brand that helps people feel and perform better every day
- Thrives in remote, asynchronous work environments with strong communication skills
Benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Optional half-day Fridays
- A heavily asynchronous approach that values deep work and life balance
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing, profitable company
- Health, dental, vision, and 401K
- Budget for conferences, courses, and tools that help you stay at the cutting edge of your profession
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