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
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