Senior Accountant

The role:

As Newsela’s Senior Accountant, you will play a key role within the accounting organization. Specifically, you will be a key contributor in Newsela’s month end close, financial reporting, internal controls process, and scaling accounting operations. You will be an integral contributor to Newsela’s accounting team, and will be a leader on the team driving process improvement to our month end close, financial statement preparation, and management reporting. You will have an immediate impact on the team by digging into our general accounting areas, software capitalization, and financial reporting processes.

General Accounting 

• Month end close - ownership of specific areas may change month to month and include, but not limited to Capitalized Software, Accounts Payable, Prepaid Assets, and Accruals
• Ensure day-to-day transactions are recorded timely and accurately
• Support technical accounting policy decisions by researching and applying US GAAP
• Prepare excellent documentation on reconciliation workpapers and/or have the ability to document policies, procedures, and controls

Annual Audit 

• Provide support for financial statement audits, documentation of internal controls, and assisting with the management of tax compliance
• Serve as one of the points of contact with external auditors
• Provide annual audit support by preparing supporting documentation that is clear, accurate, and in compliance with US GAAP

Systems

• Ability to work in multiple accounting software systems including Netsuite, Ramp, Navan, and FloQast
• Ensure financial systems have complete and accurate information to support accurate financial reporting

Why you’ll love this role: 

• You will have an opportunity to make a real impact by driving process improvement and system implementation efforts to streamline operations and improve the quality of the close process and internal controls. 
• Enable quality reporting and accounting operations that support the growth of our business. 
• Ensure the sound operational scale of our business, enabling the expansion of Newsela’s reach and bringing engaging, culturally responsive learning content into the hands of K-12 students and teachers nationwide.

Why you’re a great fit: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business with an emphasis in Accounting
• 3+ years in public accounting, made it to senior in public accounting, or 3+ years in corporate accounting on a CPA track. 
• Accounting experience with strong technical accounting, audit, and internal controls skills, ideally with Big 4 and/or public company experience. 
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and internal controls, and have experience working with NetSuite. 
• CPA designation, or are actively working towards one
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, are very organized and detail oriented, and thrive on process improvement
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with experience in collaborating with multiple teams

Base compensation: $77,000 - $87,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience. 

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.