Staff Accountant (E-Commerce Brand)

About Us

Pomelo places the best offshore talent with top brands, startups, and agencies across the globe. We enable hard-working and ambitious talent to work remotely from their home countries, while gaining exposure into how the world’s top companies operate.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Accountant with 4+ years of accounting experience to join our client, a fast-growing food subscription brand based in the US. As a member of the finance team, you’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow the company and business. You will be a key player of a small team of high performing finance professionals that work across departments to provide financial support to senior management and department heads to facilitate decision making. The Staff Accountant will assist by performing daily, weekly, monthly and annual accounting and finance processes, entries and reconciliations as well as ad-hoc financial analyses and projects.

Responsibilities

• Execute the full monthly close cycle — journal entries, accruals, reserves, and prepaid amortizations
• Reconcile all balance sheet accounts and resolve open items in a timely manner
• Maintain the general ledger — ensure proper coding, classification, and period accuracy
• Process vendor invoices end-to-end including PO matching, coding, and approval routing
• Execute weekly payment runs — ACH, check, and wire transfers
• Reconcile the AP subledger to the general ledger monthly
• Prepare month-end AP accruals for outstanding invoices
• Generate and issue customer invoices accurately and on schedule
• Monitor the AR aging report and proactively follow up on past-due balances
• Apply customer payments — ACH, check, credit card — and reconcile daily cash receipts

Qualifications

• BA/BS with a concentration in Accounting or related
• 4+ years of relevant accounting experience, with experience with or at a high-growth company and/or public accounting auditing a plus Working knowledge of US GAAP and technical accounting areas including inventory and costing
• Intermediate level and reperformable Excel skills with an interest and aptitude to work with large amounts of data (e.g. VLOOKUP, INDEX(MATCH), SUMIF, PivotTables)
• Excellent self-management practices with a demonstrated ability to be self-directed, resourceful, and ask the right questions
• Ability to maintain high-performance under tight timelines, including managing multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously, with exceptional quality, organization and attention to detail
• Process-oriented with a comfortability and excitement to build “from the ground up”
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work 9:00am-5:00pm US Pacific Time, Monday through Friday
• BONUS: 
  • Active CPA license
  • Strong inventory and costing background
  • Public accounting experience
  • Experience with ERP systems: Acumatica, Netsuite, Carta, Rippling, Expensify, and G Suite

Benefits

• Competitive pay, always in US dollars
• Work remotely from the comfort of your home
• Health & wellness benefit
• Paid holidays and time off
• Performance and referral bonuses
• Global exposure to the world’s best companies