Senior Accountant

GovOS; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

GovOS, a leading provider of transaction and compliance software, is seeking a Senior Accountant in Austin, Texas. This role involves managing month-end close processes, ensuring ledger accuracy, and supporting financial operations in a fast-paced SaaS environment. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and a solid accounting background, with opportunities for leadership and career development.

Benefits

Competitive insurance (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible PTO - no accruals

Generous paid parental leave

Monthly work from home stipend

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in month-end accounting operations.
• Strong Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUP.
• Ability to work independently in a high transaction volume environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead preparation of daily, weekly, and monthly journal entries.
• Perform weekly bank reconciliations and manage Accounts Payable.
• Assist in implementing new accounting policies and procedures.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field

Tools

NetSuite

Ramp

Job description

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Who We Are

GovOS is a leading provider of transaction and compliance software for state and local governments to streamline property, licensing, and tax interactions with businesses and citizens. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, GovOS serves more than 800 government agencies across the United States. With the company's secure suite of cloud-based solutions, governments can maximize revenue, increase compliance, reduce costs, and meet constituent demand for modern, self-service transaction and payment services.

Across the country, local governments are working hard to improve the lives of their citizens, as well as their own employees. We are 100% invested in providing governments with innovative solutions and industry-leading services that will help them deliver impactful change in their communities. Government agencies have been winning awards with us for almost 20 years now. We have the highest customer retention rates in our industry because no one works harder than we do to ensure our customers' success.

Our Mission Statement

To enable state and local governments to modernize their citizens and business transactions through innovative SaaS solutions and seamless payments.

The Senior Accountant performs a critical role in developing and executing best-in-class accounting operations, resulting in an accurate 3-day month end close. This candidate will have at least 3 years of month end experience, including account reconciliation experience. Ensuring accuracy and completeness of GovOS' ledger accounts by preparing journal entries, performing reconciliations, and conducting flux analysis to support a timely and accurate close. Reporting to the Accounting Manager, a successful Senior Accountant is a highly motivated individual demonstrating high attention to detail with excellent communication skills, asks questions and seeks to understand. This solutions-focused candidate will use their strong accounting background to scale full cycle accounting operations in a rapid growth, fast pace, SaaS Environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead timely and accurate preparation of daily, weekly, and monthly journal entries and reconciliations, resulting in an accurate 3-day month end close.
• Perform weekly bank reconciliations for all bank accounts, communicate cash balances and cash requirements weekly.
• Manage the existing automated Accounts Payable Process to ensure GL accuracy and proactively identify and communicate budget to actual variances to the Accounting Manager.
• Reconcile employee credit card transactions and expense reimbursements from Ramp to NetSuite and ensure GL accuracy.
• Perform monthly financial statement analysis.
• Assist in implementing new accounting policies and procedures while identifying opportunities to scale and enhance the efficiency of accounting operations.
• Perform ad-hoc reporting and analysis as requested.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience with a strong background in month-end accounting operations, treasury, and accounts payable operations.
• Excellent communication skills, detail oriented, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively in a high growth, high transaction volume department.
• Solid foundation and understanding of how transactions flow throughout financial statements
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP) and ability to organize and analyze financial data
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field.
• NetSuite experience.
• Ramp experience is preferred.
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

• $70,000 - $75,000 annual base
• Remote Opportunities (Some state restrictions – see below)
• Leadership and career development opportunities
• Competitive insurance (medical, dental, vision, and voluntary life & disability)
• Mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid holidays
• Flexible PTO - no accruals
• Generous paid parental leave
• Monthly work from home stipend
  
  

While we are a remote organization we do have restrictions in a few states: Unfortunately, we cannot hire in these select locations: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work experience and performance.

GovOS, Inc. ("GovOS") provides this California Privacy Notice ("Notice") to describe its privacy practices with respect to its collection of Personal Information as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). GovOS's CCPA-specific policies can be found at https://govos.com/privacy-policy/ and should be carefully reviewed prior to providing any Personal Information. This Notice applies only to job applicants and candidates for employment who reside in the State of California ("Consumers") and from whom GovOS collects "Personal Information" (as defined in the CCPA). GovOS provides you with this Notice because under the CCPA, California residents who are job applicants qualify as "Consumers."

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Software Development

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