Senior Bookkeeper / Accountant [CLOSED]

About the role:

We are looking for an all-around Senior Bookkeeper to provide our clients with solid financial information and guidance about their businesses.

Who you’ll be working with:

We are Insight Matters.

We provide our clients with financial insights that they use to grow faster, better, and healthier businesses. Based on our input, they make life changing decisions about hiring, investing, and improving their strategic plans.

Our clients use our services to answer critical business questions like, “Can they invest in hiring a new person? Are they getting the right return on marketing? Where are they leaving money on the table? Which products or services are most profitable?”

We are a full-service financial support service, working mainly with e-Commerce and Service companies - delivering the full finance function, from accounting to fractional CFO services, and from management reporting and analysis to internal control.

Our team is entirely remote and is currently dispersed among several nations in Europe, Asia, and South America, while the majority of our clients are located in the US, Europe, and Asia. We are a team of 12 and are growing rapidly.

Our #1 priority is delivering quality to our clients – we are their trusted partner for big decisions, so quality is non-negotiable.

Our team culture is open, informal, equal, based on trust and transparency, and heavily emphasizes asking questions and learning from each other and our mistakes.

What you’ll be doing

Because we are a young company with a rapidly growing clientele, you will manage accounting for a number of our clients who are situated in several different countries and in a variety of industries. Your attention will be on the daily and weekly accounting tasks, with a particular emphasis on the AR, AP, and inventory, while you also offer assistance with the monthly and yearly financial closing.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end bookkeeping for various subsidiaries of one of our clients
• Process balance sheets, income statements and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines
• Oversee junior accountants in daily processing of journal entries ensuring all business transactions are accurately recorded
• Oversee junior accountants in updating accounts payable and receivable, issuing invoices and performing reconciliations
• Ensure accurate bank and account reconciliations
• Update financial data in the relevant accounting platform to ensure that information will be accurate and immediately available when needed\
• Review expenses, payroll records etc. as assigned
• Prepare and submit weekly/monthly reports
• Prepare monthly/yearly closings
• Oversee other accounting projects

To succeed in this role, you most likely have:

• 5+ years experience in bookkeeping or preferably accounting (end-to-end processes including FSCP/Financial Statements Closing Procedures)
• Experienced in handling multiple clients with weekly and monthly timelines
• Proven experience working with e-Commerce or Service Companies
• Proven experience in major accounting platforms such as but not limited to Xero, QBO and Hubdoc
• Experience with working remote
• Strong business acumen
• Experience having responsibility for businesses operating in the international market is a plus
• Experience having responsibility for Hong Kong, EU and/or United States bookkeeping or accounting (tax knowledge in these territories is a plus!)
• Experience having responsibility for businesses operating in the international market is a plus
• Experience with Payroll in Gusto is a plus

Personal traits that will help us both succeed:

• Highly organized and structured
• Eye for detail
• Dares to asks questions
• Eager to learn and grow
• Ambition to grow with a start-up in a fast-paced, fully remote environment
• Proactively think, bring suggestions and ideas to the table
• Take initiative and not be afraid to make mistakes
• Views constructive criticism not as a means of condemnation, but as an opportunity to learn
• Flexible working hours – you can set your own work rhythm, with the only requirement that at least three hours of your standard work hours fall between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. CET

Benefits

What's in it for you:

• A key role in a young and dynamic team that is changing the future of our clients
• Working with a variety of passionate entrepreneurs as clients
• Working closely with 2 complementary founders
• Working with in an open, supportive and positive team culture
• An environment that values and rewards initiative

Benefits:

• Competitive salary 1.600 - 2.000 USD per month based on 40 hours/week (Believe you should get more? Convince us!)
• 20 days paid holiday per year
• Performance related bonus scheme/profit share in the future
• Training budget and time
• Working hours: 28-40 hours per week
• Fully remote work, flexible working hours – set your own work rhythm, with the only requirement that at least three hours of your standard work hours fall between 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. CET