Senior Accountant

About the role:

Clipboard Health is expanding to support our growth by adding a high-performing Senior Accountant to the Finance team! Reporting to our Director of Accounting, you will assist with managing month-end close, including the preparation and posting of journals. This person will have a strong collaboration with our broader Finance team to implement efficient accounting procedures. This role will require strong communication and organizational skills to ensure the company’s consolidated financial statements are prepared timely and accurately. This could be the ideal position for you if you are a detail-oriented, analytical thinker with high standards and a talent for creating financial statements.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the monthly accounting close including preparing journal entries, analyzing and explaining fluctuations, and providing meaningful financial reporting.
• Understand relevant accounting principles and communicate such principles to peers and business partners.
• Analyze current procedures and make recommendations to develop and drive process improvements to achieve efficiency and scalability.
• Operate with minimum supervision.
• Support external audit processes and create improvements for any inefficiencies identified.
• Assist in implementation, maintenance, and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP.
• Special projects and impromptu reporting on request.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2-3+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience.
• A solid understanding of U.S. GAAP.
• Advanced MS Excel skills and experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA and recent Big Four experience.
• Experience in a technology or high-growth company operating in a SOX environment.
• NetSuite experience.
• Experience researching and documenting support for accounting conclusions.

You’ll be a great fit if you have:

• First principles mindset – you break down a complex problem into its most basic foundational elements and build from there.
• Extreme curiosity - not satisfied with easy or convenient answers; drive issues to root cause.
• Ability to work comfortably with incomplete information and deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

100% remote and must be able to work in Pacific Standard Time zone