[Remote] Senior Accountant
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. They are seeking a Senior Accountant who is passionate about process improvement and excited to leverage emerging technologies to build a more efficient and scalable accounting function.
Responsibilities
- Prepare journal entries, analyses and account reconciliations
- Help maintain and improve month-end close processes, including monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Ensure compliance with GAAP
- Identify opportunities to leverage automation, AI-enabled tools, and process improvements to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and accelerate the month-end close process
- Respond to information requests and assist with the annual financial statement audit
- Analyze financial statements and GL accounts to ensure monthly, quarterly and annual fluctuations are in line with expectations and documented
- Prepare operational and ad hoc reporting for additional analysis associated with financial statement areas assigned
- Assist accounting leadership as needed
- Take ownership of preparing financial statement areas assigned to you (potential areas may include revenue, cost of goods sold, inventory, administrative fees, and others)
- Identify at least one opportunity to streamline an accounting process through automation, AI-enabled tools, or workflow improvements that enhance efficiency and support a faster close
- Establish strong working relationships cross functionally
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- 3-4 years of experience preferably with a public accounting/private accounting mix
- Ability to read and analyze financial statements/reports
- Comfort with ambiguity and lack of formally defined processes
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Highly organized and detail oriented
- Comfort working in a fully remote setting
- CPA preferred
- Experience with one or more complex areas of accounting including but not limited to revenue recognition, inventory, stock-based compensation, debt/equity financing, business combinations or investments
- Experience leveraging automation, AI tools, or advanced technology solutions to improve accounting processes, reporting, reconciliations, or close efficiency preferred
- Public company exposure preferred (either through Audit or industry background)
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers
- Security and privacy training will be provided.
- As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.
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