Senior Accountant

Who We Are: WellSaid 

WellSaid is the leading AI voice company for enterprise and professional applications. Using carefully sourced voice talent and our own AI advanced platform, WellSaid provides ultra-realistic voices that the world’s biggest brands trust to engage listeners. We build AI responsibly and ethically. 

Who You Are: A Collaborative, Team-Oriented Senior Accountant

WellSaid is seeking a Senior Accountant to implement best practices in general accounting tasks and enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the month-end accounting close. You will play a key role in managing balance sheet account reconciliations and supporting key accounting activities, including managing customer and vendor relations. The role will involve participation in cross-functional business projects and will require strong Excel abilities as well as effective communication skills, understanding of financial systems, and knowledge of GAAP. 

How You’ll Contribute:  

In your day-to-day, you will: 

• Prepare Journal Entries and monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations. 
• Manage customer disputes in Stripe and collaborate with the Customer Support Team as necessary.
• Manage vendor payment workflows and systems, ensuring controls are properly maintained and providing assigned reporting. This includes all vendor communications on contract and invoicing issues. 
• Manage employee expense reimbursement, ensuring controls are properly maintained and providing assigned reporting. This includes all employee communications on policies and related issues. 
• Manage US State compliance matters to support payroll and sales activities.
• Evaluate processes and improve workflow efficiencies for increased scalability.
• Provide reporting and analytics of assigned areas, as well as monthly and quarterly financial reporting. 
• Ad Hoc projects as assigned.
  
  

What We’re Looking For 

To thrive in this role, you ideally have experience working in a similar accounting environment for at least 5 years and have supported financial controls audits. You possess excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to take ownership of projects and deadlines, and hold others accountable for meeting deadlines and deliverables. You are a team player willing to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and be ‘hands-on’, self-motivated, proactive, and organized.

 You also have some combination of the following:

• Working knowledge of U.S. generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as well as a general understanding of U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS).
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant accounting experience in medium-sized companies that demonstrates substantial knowledge and ability to perform the specific job responsibilities.
• A demonstrated history of exceptional organizational analytical skills, successfully applying these skills to solve problems.
• Advanced skills with spreadsheet applications such as Excel and Google Sheets.
• The ability to work well both independently and in a team environment.  [Note that this is  primarily a remote role]
• Ability to prioritize business needs, adapt to rapid business changes and meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency working with NetSuite or other financial systems and automated reporting tools such as Navan, Tipalti, HubSpot, etc.
• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA certification and experience in SaaS companies strongly preferred.
• Public accounting or public company experience a plus.  

To join our team you also:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Must pass a pre-employment background check 
  
  

What We Offer 

WSL is proud to support an inclusive work environment that emphasizes each team member’s personal and professional growth. Our team is fully distributed throughout the U.S., and we support flexible schedules - work where and when you work best. You’ll have teammates just a Slack message or video call away if you ever need help solving an exciting challenge, or even if you just have a funny story to tell.

As a startup, we strive to be externally competitive with companies at a similar size and stage, and internally fair in our pay practices. The hiring salary for this role is $90,000 - $110,000 and represents the target offer range given the scope and experience expectations for this role.

Other perks and benefits: 

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Generous vacation policy/paid time off
• Parental leave
• Learning & development stipend
• Home office stipend
  
  

What to Expect From Us 

We strongly encourage you to apply! If we feel your skills, experience, and values match, we’ll reach out about meeting with the team. 

During the interview stage, you can expect:

• An intro screen with our recruiting team (30 minutes).
• An initial “phone” screen with the hiring manager (45 minutes); if there’s a match we’ll schedule an interview loop with the team.
• An Interview loop with 3 interviews (30 minutes to 1 hour each) with the team members you will be potentially working with 

All interviews will be remote via Google Meet; we are happy to make accommodations you might need to feel set up for success in our process.