# Sr Accountant

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: United States
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $89,100-$140,900 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to join our Accounting team. As a Senior Accountant, you will play a critical role in performing month-end close execution, foreign exchange accounting, intercompany transactions, transfer pricing calculations, and complex balance sheet reconciliations.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support month-end close activities, including complex journal entries, financial accruals, intercompany eliminations, transfer pricing calculations, intercompany AR/AP billing, and FX variance analysis.

- Perform secondary book validation and ensure accuracy across multi-entity and statutory reporting ledgers.

- Assist with M&A opening balance sheet preparation and support monthly journal entries until acquired companies are fully integrated into Elastic.

- Maintain and update the Chart of Accounts (COA) to support evolving business structures and reporting requirements.

- Perform financial statement flux analysis to evaluate account behavior and deliver meaningful insights to finance leadership.

- Assist with audit preparation, balance sheet disclosures, and internal control compliance.

- Support process improvement and automation initiatives by leveraging tools such as Python, SQL, Sigma, and Excel Macros.

- Execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and data validation for systems implementations, ERP enhancements, and continuous software integration projects.

- Collaborate on foreign currency exchange management and multi-entity accounting across global subsidiaries.

- Utilize cutting-edge AI tools and workflow automation to eliminate operational bottlenecks, increase accuracy, and modernize daily ledger operations.

- Produce ad-hoc financial reporting, data analysis, and support special cross-functional finance projects.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related business field.

- 5+ years of professional accounting experience demonstrating progressive responsibility.

- Strong hands-on experience with major Enterprise ERP systems.

- Advanced Excel technical capabilities.

- Proven experience participating in system UAT testing, software implementations, and financial transformation projects.

- Experience with foreign currency accounting, intercompany AR/AP billing, transfer pricing, and multi-entity global consolidations.

**Nice to Have:**

- Demonstrated technical proficiency in Python and SQL for financial data extraction, cleaning, and workflow automation.

- Experience with M&A accounting integration, opening balance sheet setup, Chart of Accounts maintenance, and secondary ledger validation.

**Compensation:**

- The typical starting salary range for this role is $89,100-$140,900 USD.

- In select locations, an alternate range may apply: $106,800-$168,900 USD.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive pay

- Health coverage for you and your family

- Flexible locations and schedules

- Generous number of vacation days each year

- Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 for financial donations and service

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- ERP systems
- Excel
- Python
- SQL

### Nice to have
- M&A accounting integration

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