Description
Senior Accountant
- Location: This role is eligible for remote work in the United States.
- Compensation: This role's annual salary ranges are outlined below, in addition to equity and benefits.
- $112,000 - $124,000 [California, New York, Washington]
- $95,000 - $105,500 [Massachusetts, Washington DC, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania]
- $90,000 - $99,500 [All other states]
About Gem
- Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2025
- Great Place to Work Certified, 2024
- Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023
The Team & Role
What you’ll do day-to-day
- Accounting operations: accounts payable, payroll & commission processing, expense reports reviews, and general procurement reviews.
- Technical accounting: lease and sublease accounting, internal use software, Share-based compensation, expense reporting
- Close process: preparing journal entries, general ledger reconciliation and flux analysis
- Audit coordination, investor reporting requirements and tax filings
- Optimizing internal financial processes
- Quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
- Administration of key finance systems, including ERP, AP/AR, Payroll.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to help drive key initiatives & process improvements
- Serve as backup for order-to-cash accounting
About you
- 1-3 years of Big 4 experience strongly preferred
- 1 year of in-house corporate experience required
- 1-2 years of startup accounting experience a plus
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting
- CPA or CPA Eligible a plus
- NetSuite experience is required
- Have a strong sense of ownership in your work, and love the idea of owning systems and processes end-to-end
- Enjoy identifying and solving problems proactively
- Operate well in a fast-moving environment and can juggle multiple work-streams
- Are excited about helping a business grow and scale, and enjoy working with cross-functional partners outside of finance
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary & equity
- 10-year window to exercise your stock options
- Supportive Flexible Time Off program
- 16 paid holidays, including regular company-wide wellness days
- Best-in-class medical, dental & vision insurance
- $1,200 annual stipend for learning and development opportunities
- 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- New Parent Perks totaling $1,500 and flexibility upon return to work
Company
Gem is a cloud-based recruiting platform designed for talent acquisition teams across startups, growth-stage companies, and large enterprises. It combines ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and analytics in a single interface, backed by AI-driven recommendations and a database of 800M+ profiles. The platform promotes consolidation of tools, reduces tech spend, and increases recruiter productivity by providing unified data, real-time insights, and end-to-end candidate management. Gem supports different scales of organizations with tailored solutions and integrates with existing ATS systems to accelerate hiring.
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