Senior Accountant

About the Role

What You’ll Own

General Ledger & Month-End Close

• Prepare and post journal entries across all areas of the business, including accruals, prepaid amortization, depreciation, payroll, revenue, and recurring standard entries.
• Execute the monthly, quarterly, and annual close on the schedule established with the Controller, and drive the close calendar to on-time completion.
• Own the integrity of the general ledger and chart of accounts, including account coding accuracy, period cut-off, and correcting entries.
• Maintain complete supporting documentation and audit trail for every entry, with clear preparer and reviewer evidence.
• Prepare trial balance reviews and flag unusual balances, missing accruals, and coding errors before the books are closed.

Reconciliations & Balance Sheet Integrity

• Prepare and own all account reconciliations, including cash and bank accounts, settlement and clearing accounts, prepaid, accrued liabilities, fixed assets, and intercompany balances.
• Perform daily and monthly reconciliation of banking and card platform activity to the general ledger, and research and resolve differences promptly.
• Maintain a balance sheet reconciliation binder with standardized workpapers, tie-outs, and sign-offs.
• Track and clear aged reconciling items, and escalate unresolved differences with a recommended resolution.
• Prepare intercompany and shared-cost schedules for services provided by or to affiliated entities, and reconcile them to the underlying agreements.

Accounts Payable, Expense & Payroll Accounting

• Process and review vendor invoices, coding, approval routing, and payment runs, and maintain vendor master data.
• Enforce expense, approval-threshold, and documentation policies across all departments, and follow up on exceptions.
• Reconcile corporate card and employee expense activity, and ensure proper period recognition of reimbursed costs.
• Record and reconcile payroll and benefits activity in coordination with the payroll provider and the people function.
• Support 1099 and W-9 compliance, vendor onboarding documentation, and year-end reporting.

Financial Reporting Support

• Prepare supporting schedules for monthly financial statements, including income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement detail.
• Assist the Controller in preparing financial statements and reporting packages under US GAAP, and support IFRS reporting requirements.
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports and analysis requested by the Controller, executive team, and ownership group.
• Provide actuals, accrual detail, and account-level explanations to support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Process & Policy Build-Out

• Document accounting procedures, desktop procedures, and close checklists for the general ledger, AP, expense, and reconciliation processes.
• Recommend and help implement automation and process improvements that reduce manual effort and cycle time.
• Help maintain integrations between the ERP and banking and payroll, and monitor them for completeness of data.

Technical Accounting, Audit & Controls

• Assist in researching technical accounting matters and drafting accounting memos for significant vendors, contracts, and transactions.
• Apply revenue recognition, lease, capitalization, and accrual guidance in day-to-day accounting, escalating judgment calls to the Controller.
• Prepare audit-ready workpapers and respond to requests from external auditors, banking partners, and program sponsors.
• Execute and evidence internal controls over the close, reconciliation, and disbursement processes, and identify control gaps.
• Support the preparation of information required for tax filings and regulatory or partner reporting.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ownership of month-end close activities and account reconciliations.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, the full accounting cycle, and financial statement preparation.
• Demonstrated experience preparing complex journal entries and reconciliations with minimal supervision.
• Hands-on experience with an ERP or accounting platform, including transaction processing and report generation.
• Experience with full-cycle accounts payable, including vendor onboarding, invoice processing, and payment runs.
• Advanced Excel skills, including large data sets, lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation techniques.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and documentation discipline, with a strong sense of ownership for accuracy.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to explain accounting outcomes to non-accountants.
• Self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, builds process where none exists, and follows through without reminders.

Preferred

• CPA license or active CPA candidate.
• Accounting experience in fintech, banking, payments, or another regulated financial services environment.
• Familiarity with transaction-based revenue such as interchange, ATM, transfer, and membership fees, and with settlement and clearing account reconciliation.
• Experience supporting an ERP implementation, system conversion, or finance process transformation.
• Exposure to IFRS in addition to US GAAP, and to intercompany or shared-services accounting.
• Prior external audit or public accounting experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting with coursework in technical accounting research.

Domain Expertise We Value

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field required.
• CPA license or active CPA candidate is a plus.

Work Environment

Why Join DingoBlu

• A rare opportunity to build the accounting function of a high-growth financial services company from the ground up — the processes you document will become how we operate.
• Direct partnership with the Controller and hands-on involvement in a full ERP implementation from configuration through go-live.
• Exposure to every area of the business and to technical accounting matters that most accountants at this level never see.
• A collaborative, performance-driven culture that values rigor, initiative, and transparency.