Lead Accountant
About the role
Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire a Lead Accountant with an international focus for the Finance team.
Why join Sprout’s Finance team?
As a member of Sprout’s finance team, you’ll help better position Sprout for future growth while maintaining compliance and integrity at the highest level. No matter your role, everyone on the team has the opportunity to be a part of creating best-in-class processes and practices that can scale with the organization. Our team is unique because we value transparency and direct ownership of responsibilities - meaning, you’ll always have our trust to help contribute to our overall goals and success as a department and organization.
What you’ll do
- You will own the overall international accounting processes, including compliance. This includes providing advanced expertise and ensuring the accurate and timely completion of financial statements for our 7 international subsidiaries
- You will own several domestic processes and use your deep GAAP expertise on more complex deliverables.
- You will work closely with tax, payroll, legal, and other accounting teams to ensure we meet all of our deadlines and obligations. You will function as a project manager in cases when there is a need for these various teams to collaborate on compliance deliverables.
- You will oversee five international audits from beginning to end, working in conjunction with our third-party partners
- You will own the relationship with our third party services providers who assist with local filings and compliance.
- You will drive process improvements to ensure we are operating efficiently and create new processes to accommodate our always-changing and quickly growing business.
- You will review the work of other team members and provide coaching and feedback as needed
- You will be the go-to person for international accounting and tangent processes.
What you’ll bring
Since this role is about raising the bar, we’re looking for someone with experience in Finance/Accounting within a high-growth technical company (tools, best practices (US GAAP), relevant laws and regulations, etc.) and a strategic lens (connecting day-to-day work (account reconciliations, journal entries, etc.) with bigger-picture organizational objectives. The businesses we serve rely on Sprout to create stronger relationships through social media.
If you’re looking to grow your accounting skills with a best-in-class team who is supporting global expansion, we’d love to talk to you!
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent business degree
- 6+ years of experience in Accounting or Audit, including 2+ years of experience in International accounting
- Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced environment
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
- Experience with international entity accounting processes is highly desirable
- Experience managing relationships and compliance with a third-party accounting-service provider
- Hands-on experience with accounting systems and process improvement