Senior Accountant

The role

The Senior Accountant will own key areas of the monthly close including COGS, cost allocations, and various accruals. You will support the AlphaSense Finance team in driving enterprise value through financial analysis and data-driven decisions.

What you will do

• Ensure timely and accurate income statement recognition in accordance with US GAAP
• Own key areas of the monthly COGS close, including cost allocations and related accruals
• Prepare monthly accruals and reversals for content, technology, and other vendor costs
• Maintain COGS summary analysis for manager review
• Prepare intercompany entries and reclasses across multiple entities
• Reconcile accrued expense and payable accounts, and prepare flux explanations
• Prepare journal entries in conformity with established procedures
• Prepare and review analysis of various balance sheet and P&L accounts
• Support the monthly close process for various entities
• Liaise with internal departments to ensure monthly transactions are properly booked

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of accounting experience
• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
• Self starter who can operate independently and manage multiple deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Advanced excel skills
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, including accrual accounting, multi-entity, and intercompany accounting

Nice to have

• preferably at a SaaS or technology company
• Experience with a Big 4 or public accounting firm
• Exposure to usage-based or technology vendor costs
• Hands on experience with NetSuite and FloQast or similar ERP and close management tool

Benefits

• performance-based bonus
• equity
• generous benefits program

About the company

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents.