Accounting Manager
Grata - New York, NY
posted 1 day ago
About the position
Grata is the leading private market dealmaking platform. We make it easy to find, research, and engage with private companies. Our platform has the most comprehensive, accurate, and searchable proprietary data on private companies, their financials, and their owners. We help leading investors (PE/growth), investment bankers, management consultants, and corporate development teams discover and win more deals. Grata has over 500 customers and has been widely recognized as the market leader by G2, PE Wire, and more. We are looking for a Accounting Manager to join our team! This is an opportunity to help build an accounting function from the ground up, including implementing processes and best practices and making key decisions for the direction of the accounting org. A strong performer could quickly move into a controller role. Grata is a hybrid company, which means our employees work from our NY office (near Bryant Park) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Responsibilities
- Implement, improve, and lead the month-end close (MEC) process including reconciling accounts and booking journal entries as needed as we progress towards audit-ready financials.
- Lead and scale the corporate accounting functions, including technical accounting and financial reporting.
- Oversee the development and adoption of accounting policies and processes to ensure that Grata complies with evolving accounting standards and regulations, such as US GAAP and local and international regulatory requirements.
- Serve as the technical accounting expert and trusted advisor to senior management maintaining current knowledge of GAAP, relevant regulations and industry trends providing guidance, planning and direction related to all accounting matters, including but not limited to revenue accounting (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), prepaid and accrual accounting, and consolidation and inter-company.
- Work with and direct outside advisors on tax compliance, including income and sales & use tax.
- Form a key part of the finance team responsible for investor and parent company reporting together with the VP of Finance.
Requirements
- 6+ years of total accounting experience
- 2+ years of public accounting experience in an advisory role such as audit or tax
- 2+ years of experience in corporate accounting
- 1+ years of experience in a managerial role preferred
- Undergraduate or Masters degree in accounting or a related field
- Demonstrated familiarity and experience with general ledger accounting and the record-to-report (R2R) process
- Experience with leading all or part of month-end close (MEC)
- Familiarity with technical accounting concepts and comfortable providing advice to non-accountants
- Familiarity with ERPs such as Netsuite, Quickbooks, or Workday
- Excited to help build an accounting function from the ground up
Nice-to-haves
- International accounting and/or consolidation experience is a plus
- Familiarity with tax, including corporate income and sales & use tax (SUT) is a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision plans
- Company-sponsored lunch through Grubhub on a weekly basis
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Flexible Work Location (FWL) policy that allows you to work from home 24 days of the year
- Other benefits: 12 weeks of parental leave, 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, dog-friendly office
