Senior Accountant, Marketing

Come see what’s cookin’ at HelloFresh!

At HelloFresh, we want to revolutionize the way we eat by making it more convenient and exciting to cook meals from scratch. We have offices all over the world and we deliver delicious meals to millions of people.

We are the industry leader in meal-kit subscription services, and we are growing all the time. We have distinct meal-kit services that cater to everyone with the most menu variety in the market, which allows us to reach an incredibly wide population of people.

The HelloFresh team is diverse, high-performing, and international, and our work environment is an inspiring space where you can thrive as a result.

Job Description:

The Senior Accountant, Marketing will support the timely and accurate month-end GL accounting and reporting for the HelloFresh US brands for marketing accruals.  

The person in this role should be experienced working with large data sets and distilling it into meaningful analysis, identifying and resolving issues and employing data analysis to ensure partners and leaders have the most up-to-date and reliable information. 

Keys to success at HelloFresh include working egolessly (team-oriented), proactively asking questions to better learn and prioritize your tasks, having a process-improvement mindset, and always having your customers in mind. 

Job Responsibilities include:

• Perform the month-end close duties for all aspects of accrual accounting for marketing spend for HF US brands, including preparing and posting journal entries, preparing balance sheet reconciliations, performing month-over-month flux analysis, and performing key-controls
• Perform checks to ensure the matching of marketing invoices to planned spend accruals and proper coding
• Follow up on matching and coding discrepancies to resolution
• Partner with the accounting, FP&A, shared services and marketing teams to ensure completeness and accuracy of month end accruals
• Partner with accounts payable, shared services, and marketing teams to ensure timely processing of marketing invoices 
• Perform detailed validation of aged accrual balances against vendor statements in accordance with policy
• Review P&L and balance sheet accounts and provide manager with insights into month-over-month trends
• Drive the reconciliation of data discrepancies by deep-diving into lowest level and creating reports to highlight discrepancies to appropriate owners 
• Support internal and external audit requirements related to specific areas of responsibility
• Update process documentation on an ongoing basis as needed

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years GL accounting experience, audit experience a plus 
• Advanced spreadsheet (Excel and/or Google Sheets) and data manipulation skills
• Oracle, Tableau, Blackline and SQL experience a plus 
• Detail oriented and expert at following through

HelloFresh is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. HelloFresh is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.