Senior Accountant

Strativ Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Strativ Group partners with a New York fintech building payments infrastructure for international money movement. This rare in-house accounting role reports to the finance lead who previously worked in Big 4 audit and understands the transition deeply.

The successful candidate will own month-end close, build reporting processes, handle end-to-end bookkeeping, migrate external work, and advise on ad-hoc analyses as the finance lead's right hand.

Qualifications

• 0–5 years accounting experience
• Big 4 or national firm background preferred
• Holistic grasp of accounting and reasoning behind entries
• Familiar with AI tools or eager to learn
• Intellectually curious and able to work without a playbook
• CPA preferred with sponsorship potential

Responsibilities

• Run month-end close with finance lead and assume ownership
• Build repeatable reporting processes where none exist today
• Bookkeeping and expense classification end-to-end
• Migrate work currently held by external accountants
• Support analysis and ad-hoc projects as finance lead's right hand

Skills

AI tools

Education

CPA preferred

Job description

We are working with a New York fintech building payments infrastructure for businesses moving money internationally. Their accounting currently runs through an external firm. They're bringing it in house - and this is the first accountant they'll have hired.

The successful candidate will work directly with our client's finance lead, who came out of Big 4 audit early in their own career and knows exactly what this transition looks like. The scope is real from day one, and very little of it is already built.

The role

• Running month-end close alongside the finance lead, then taking it over
• Building repeatable reporting processes where none exist today
• Bookkeeping and expense classification, end to end
• Migrating work currently held by our client's external accountants
• Acting as a right hand to the finance lead on analysis and ad-hoc projects

What our client is looking for

• 0–5 years' accounting experience - strong recent graduates and early-career auditors both welcome
• Big 4 or national firm background preferred; financial services clients ideal
• A holistic grasp of accounting, not just the tasks — you understand why the entries land where they do
• Fluent with AI tools, or genuinely keen to be. They use them heavily
• Intellectually curious, and comfortable working without a playbook
• CPA preferred. Don't have it? Our client will sponsor it, and can provide your signing CPA