Fireworks
Senior GL Accountant
San Mateo, Remote. Posted 25 days ago
The role
The Senior GL Accountant will own and scale the month-end close and general ledger. This person will manage journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for operating expense accounts and international subsidiaries.
What you will do
- Prepare and post journal entries for accruals, prepaids, reclasses, and fixed asset depreciation.
- Own operating expense accruals and gather support from various departments.
- Maintain prepaid schedules and amortization for software, cloud, and compute commitments.
- Perform monthly flux and variance analysis on operating expense accounts.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts monthly including cash, prepaids, and intercompany.
- Tie out payroll and benefits postings to the general ledger.
- Support month-end close and reporting for international subsidiaries.
- Assist with local statutory and tax filing requests for international entities.
- Keep general ledger coding accurate across ERP and spend management platforms.
- Participate in ERP enhancements and upgrade testing.
Required qualifications
- 4–6 years of general ledger or corporate accounting experience.
- Strong grasp of U.S. GAAP and accrual accounting.
- Hands-on experience owning month-end close tasks.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience supporting external audits and preparing supporting documentation.
- Strong communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
Nice to have
- Time at a high-growth technology or SaaS company.
- Public accounting experience.
- Experience with multi-entity accounting, intercompany, and foreign currency.
- Experience with ERPs such as NetSuite.
- Familiarity with spend management platforms such as Ramp.
- Exposure to SOX readiness, internal controls documentation, or an ERP implementation or chart-of-accounts redesign.
- CPA or progress toward CPA.
About the company
Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion that provides a platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models.