Senior Accountant

MuckRack

United States

Remote

USD 105,000 - 120,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Phone & internet reimbursement

Coworking membership

Team bonding events

Job summary

Muck Rack is seeking a collaborative Senior Accountant to own significant areas of the monthly close, improve workflows, and scale accounting operations in a fully distributed environment.

You will work across multi-entity setups, leverage NetSuite/OneWorld, and utilize automation to reduce manual effort while ensuring strong controls and accurate records.

Qualifications

5+ years of progressive accounting experience, independently owning substantive processes.
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and complex transactions.
Hands-on NetSuite/OneWorld experience in multi-entity environment.
Experience automating and improving recurring workflows.
Strong reconciliation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Experience collaborating across teams and communicating requirements clearly.
CPA or equivalent accounting credential.

Responsibilities

Own key areas of the month-end close, including reconciliations and journal entries.
Support accounting across a multi-entity environment including intercompany activity.
Investigate discrepancies and maintain well-supported financial records.
Identify manual work, control gaps, and implement practical improvements.
Use NetSuite/OneWorld, automation, AI to streamline processes and data quality.
Partner with stakeholders to balance efficiency, accuracy, and controls.
Support audit readiness and scalable processes.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

NetSuite

Intercompany accounting

CPA

Excel

Automation

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional

Education

CPA or equivalent

Tools

NetSuite/OneWorld

FloQast

BlackLine

Job description

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do.

We’re looking for a collaborative, self-motivated Senior Accountant to join our Accounting & Finance team.

As our Senior Accountant, you’ll independently own meaningful areas of our accounting operations while helping us improve how the work gets done. You’ll combine strong accounting judgment with a systems mindset to streamline workflows, strengthen controls, and help our accounting processes scale.

What You'll Do

Independently own key areas of the month-end close, including reconciliations, journal entries, account analysis, and other complex accounting activities within your scope
Support accounting across a multi-entity environment, including areas such as intercompany activity, consolidation, foreign currency, payroll and compensation accounting, and related reconciliations
Apply strong accounting judgment to investigate discrepancies, resolve issues, and maintain accurate and well-supported financial records
Identify recurring manual work, control gaps, and inefficient accounting workflows, and support implementing practical improvements
Use NetSuite/OneWorld functionality, automation, AI, and other tools to streamline accounting processes, improve data quality, and reduce unnecessary manual effort
Partner with teammates and cross-functional stakeholders to understand process needs, recommend improvements, and implement solutions that balance efficiency, accuracy, and appropriate controls
Support audit readiness and documentation while helping ensure accounting processes remain scalable, repeatable, and well controlled

To Be Set Up for Success in This Role, You'll Need to Have

5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with the ability to independently own substantive accounting processes and portions of the close
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and experience applying accounting principles to increasingly complex transactions and operational accounting issues
Hands‑on experience working with NetSuite/OneWorld in a multi-entity accounting environment
Experience identifying and implementing accounting process improvements, including examples where you have automated, redesigned, streamlined, or otherwise improved recurring workflows
Strong reconciliation, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues and drive them through resolution
Experience collaborating across teams and communicating accounting or process requirements clearly to stakeholders
A CPA or equivalent accounting credential

If Any of the Below Also Describe You, This Could Be an Exciting Opportunity

You have experience in SaaS, software, technology, or another complex and rapidly evolving business environment
Your career includes experience in both public accounting and an in‑house accounting or finance organization
You’ve helped optimize financial close or reconciliation workflows using tools such as FloQast, BlackLine, or similar platforms
You’ve used advanced Excel, reporting or data tools, workflow automation, no-code tools, SQL, AI, or similar technologies to improve accounting processes
You have experience supporting ERP enhancements, implementations, integrations, or other accounting systems initiatives
You enjoy experimenting with better ways to complete accounting work while maintaining strong financial controls and accounting integrity

In Addition, We're Always Looking for Candidates Who

Take ownership of their work and independently move problems toward resolution while knowing when to involve others
Bring curiosity to existing processes and look for practical opportunities to make them simpler, more reliable, and more scalable
Balance speed and efficiency with accuracy, sound judgment, and appropriate financial controls
Communicate clearly and work effectively with both accounting teammates and cross‑functional partners
Are comfortable operating in an evolving environment, navigating ambiguity, and adapting as business needs change
Proactively incorporate AI tools into day‑to‑day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery

Interview Overview

Below you’ll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
Peer interviews with several team members
30-minute Bar Raiser

Travel & Team Engagement Expectations

This role requires up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events. As part of our commitment to building strong connections across our fully distributed team, attendance at our annual company offsite (typically held in Mexico) is expected.

Salary

The starting salary for this role is between $105,000 and $120,000+, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.

Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

Why Muck Rack?

Remote Work, Forever