Senior Accounting Manager

The Role

We're building our Finance team and currently seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to join us as our first Finance hire! In this crucial role, you will collaborate directly with our senior leadership, taking a lead role in owning financial accounting and operations, analysis, and reporting. Your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring accurate financial records and providing insights that contribute to the financial stability and growth of our company. As our first accounting hire, you will have the unique opportunity to develop and execute the accounting function’s vision, strategy, and priorities as our Company continues to scale. This role will report directly to the CEO initially and – later in the year – a Head of Finance.

Responsibilities

• Develop, oversee and run financial accounting processes, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial transactions and records
• Manage company’s relationship with external accounting and bookkeeping firm(s)
• Oversee the monthly close (e.g., the revenue recognition processes and journal entries in close coordination with the Revenue Org leadership) and reconciliation process, including reporting and financial analysis to share with leadership
• Manage day-to-day accounting operations, including customer billing and receivables, accounts payable, payroll, employee reimbursements, sales tax management, state/local filings, and contract review
• Develop and drive compliance with our banking and treasury management strategy
• Create standard operating procedures and strengthen controls around critical accounting and financial operations
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis to generate actionable management reports that provide a comprehensive view of the company's financial performance, with a particular understanding of 3-statement financial analysis and budget-versus-actuals (BVA)
• Assist with budgeting activities, including building financial models and forecasting
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulations, and company policies
• Identify areas to drive operational automation, improvements and efficiency, from both a process and systems/tools standpoint
• Collaborate with external accounting firms on annual R&D study, federal and state tax returns preparation as well as manage the annual financial audit process
• Own various other ad-hoc financial analyses and special projects in collaboration with the CEO, Revenue Ops, Business Ops, and People Ops, as needed

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of relevant experience at a top public accounting firm and/or as an in-house accountant
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or equivalent training
• Proficiency in utilizing advanced financial systems and tools, as well as experience with implementing new systems
• Experience directly navigating third-party financial audits and achieving successful outcomes
• Experience working with technology SaaS businesses generating $10M+ in revenue
• Ability to excel in dynamic and fast-paced start-up environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to be hands on and work directly on all aspects of the job

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA license with extensive knowledge of US GAAP, with an in-depth knowledge of revenue recognition and software capitalization standards
• Familiarity with QuickBooks
• Experience with profitable, growth-stage startups (between 50 and 250 employees) and comfortable developing and scaling processes and controls in such environments
• Technical accounting experience in the areas of investments, employee equity plans, and capitalization for VC-backed technology start-ups
• CPG and retail tech experience
• Has led a finance transformation and implementation of an ERP system
• Budgeting and financial forecasting experience

About Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a private network of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access.

While we care deeply about our customers’ financial and operational improvements, our team’s hearts and minds are motivated by the impact our work has in addressing some of the largest environmental and social opportunities of our generation - at the intersection of food waste, resource deficiency, climate change, affordable nutrition, and hunger. We couldn’t be more excited to be combining critical technology breakthroughs - including workflow automation, augmented intelligence, wholesale ecommerce, traceability, and supply chain management - to an industry that is so critical for daily life.

Born out of MIT in 2015, Spoiler Alert is headquartered in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood and is backed by some of the nation's leading food, agriculture, and supply chain investors. For more about Spoiler Alert, visit spoileralert.com or our social channels: Twitter & LinkedIn.

Benefits

Spoiler Alert is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. We offer a remote-first work environment, with the flexibility to work remotely or in-person from our Boston headquarters. Employee benefits include the following:

• Competitive salary and stock option packages
• Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Climate-focused, pre-tax 401(k) and post-tax Roth 401(k) options
• 12-16 weeks of paid parental leave + flex return to work
• 15+ company holidays, including an EOY rest week
• 20 vacation days and 10 sick days per year
• Flex Fridays (no meetings after 2PM)
• Paid volunteer outings and civic engagement leave
• Learning & career development stipends
• Home office stipend
• $500 FSA contribution
• Remote first work environment
• Spoiler Alert believes that everyone should be compensated fairly and equitably. We set our salary ranges using compensation data from startups at our stage. The salary range for this position is $125,000-160,000. Pay will be determined based on our assessment of your level and is not determined by location.

We are a diverse team committed to a safe and inclusive work environment, free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, handicap or veteran status, or marital status.

Please note that applicants should be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Though we are interested in every qualified candidate, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.