Senior Accountant

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About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide.

At Gusto, the accounting team is all about working together to solve problems and improve processes. As a accountant in this newly created role, you will work closely with the Accounting Manager and other accounting team members on the month-end close process, audits, reporting and more. The ideal candidate will be highly analytical and able to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment. Better yet: you'll be doing it in a company that truly understands your role as an accountant - so many of our customers are accountants!

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

  • Compile account information and prepare monthly journal entries
  • Analyze and explain monthly balance sheet and income statement fluctuations and variances
  • Prepare and maintain monthly account reconciliations
  • Assist with compiling year-end external audit requests
  • Assist with ad hoc projects to gain efficiencies and enable a faster month-end close
  • Work with various cross-functional departments to streamline data flow and automate processes

Here’s what we're looking for:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • Three plus years’ experience, with at least one year in public accounting
  • CPA, or CPA candidate strongly preferred
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and the capacity to work both independently and collaboratively with the team and across functions in a fast-paced environment
  • Added bonuses —SaaS industry experience, SQL skills, prior experience with NetSuite, Blackline, Bill.com, Expensify

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.