Senior Accountant, Accounting Operations

Dagster; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity options

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Medical, Dental and Vision

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Disability benefits

Remote work stipend

Job summary

Prefect, a leader in orchestration platforms, seeks a senior finance professional to own operating expense accounting, accruals, and budget vs. actuals in a fast-growing tech environment. You will manage vendor payments, corporate card programs, and T&E, working with Ramp, Navan, and Stripe in a modern finance stack.

You’ll partner with department heads to forecast spending, drive process improvements, and ensure timely, accurate financial reporting in a remote-first, collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience in a fast-growing software or tech startup.
• Hands-on ownership of AP, corporate card programs, and/or T&E processes.
• Experience with Ramp, Stripe, Navan, and Looker is a plus.
• Strong Excel/spreadsheet skills, including budget vs. actuals modeling.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own budget vs. actuals reporting and Variance explanations with department leads.
• Manage full operating expense cycle: AP, corporate card, and T&E reimbursements.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations for month-end close per GAAP.
• Assist with federal and state tax filings, including 1099s.
• Partner with department heads to improve budget tracking and forecasting.
• Drive automation across AP, T&E, and close using Ramp, Navan, and Rillet.
• Support ad hoc system automations and process improvement projects.

Skills

AP management

T&E processing

Corporate card programs

Excel budgeting

GAAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

CPA (preferred)

Tools

Ramp

Navan

Stripe

Looker (BI)

Job description

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms -- Prefect OSS, Prefect Cloud, FastMCP OSS, and Horizon -- used for mission-critical workloads.

Our Vision: Prefect will define automation for the context era.

Our Mission: Curate an intelligent context layer that delivers the right information at the right time.

About Prefect

Prefect builds automation for an unpredictable world. The last decade of automation was about protecting workflows from unpredictability; in the agentic era, unpredictability is the point. Our mission is to give people confidence in automated work, whether that work is a mission-critical data pipeline or a fleet of AI agents.

In August 2026, Prefect and Dagster, competitors for eight years, joined forces to build the next generation of automation infrastructure. Today, our ecosystem includes Dagster, the data platform; Prefect, the agent platform; and FastMCP, the leading open-source developer framework for the MCP ecosystem. Together, our open-source and commercial products are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and high-growth technology companies around the world.

We think of our culture as the operating system of the company. We’ve carefully created a supportive, high-performance environment that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers, have meaningful impact, and continue growing personally and professionally. We’re a remote-first team that values high standards, ownership, and thoughtful collaboration.

Role Summary:

Reporting to Justin, our Senior Director of Finance, you’ll take ownership of operating expense accounting for Prefect. This includes assessing and recording monthly accruals, maintaining the cash feed and ensuring transactions are accurately captured, and overseeing budget vs. actuals, T&E, vendor bill payments, and corporate card programs.

You’ll be the person department leads come to when they want to understand what they’ve spent and what they have left, and the person making sure vendors and employees get paid accurately and on time. It’s a hands‑on role with a lot of ownership, cross‑functional visibility, and room to make the work you own more efficient as the company grows.

You’ve done this before at a software or tech startup, you’re comfortable being the primary owner of a process rather than one of several hands on it, and you’re comfortable working in a modern finance stack like Ramp, Navan, and Stripe.

What You'll Do:

• Own budget vs. actuals reporting, partnering directly with department leads to explain variances and keep them informed of their spend.
• Manage the full operating expense cycle: vendor bill payments (AP), the corporate card program, and employee travel & expense reimbursements.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations for opex accounts as part of month‑end close, consistent with GAAP.
• Assist with federal and state reporting requirements and tax filings, including corporate tax returns, sales tax registrations and filings, and 1099s.
• Partner with department heads to improve how they track and forecast their own budgets — you're building the process, not just running it.
• Identify and drive automation and process improvements across AP, T&E, and close, using tools like Ramp, Navan, and Rillet.
• Assist with ad hoc requests and projects, such as system automations, process improvements and researching technical accounting topics.

Your Qualifications:

Must-haves:

• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally at a fast-growing software or tech startup.
• Hands‑on ownership of AP, corporate card programs, and/or T&E processes — not just a supporting role on someone else's.
• Experience with modern finance tools like Ramp, Stripe, and Navan.
• Strong Excel/spreadsheet skills, including building and maintaining budget vs. actuals models.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

Nice-to-haves:

• CPA or actively working toward one.
• Experience with Rillet.
• Familiarity with BI tools like Looker.

What You'll Get in Return:

Base Salary Ranges:

• San Francisco Bay Area & NYC Metro: $123,000 - $173,000
• Washington D.C., Boston, LA Metro, Seattle: $116,000 - $160,000
• Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, & all other U.S. metros: $111,000 - $148,000

Actual base salary within the range depends on the candidate's experience and qualifications. Equity and benefits are not included in the range above. Your recruiter can share more about the salary range during the hiring process.

Perks and Benefits:

• Remote-first team with flexible-first culture
• Equity Stock Options
• 401(k) with 5% company match (vests immediately!)
• Unlimited PTO
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Generous Parental Leave
• Life Insurance and Disability benefits
• $800/month remote work stipend

And that's just the start — for more info check out our benefits and perks on our careers page.

Belongingness at Prefect:

Belongingness at Prefect is our commitment to ensuring mutual power, access, and opportunity among all groups and individuals who make up our community. We operationalize belongingness through actions large and small on a daily basis, but always with the goal that all groups and individuals can contribute as their most authentic self to the evolution of our product, our team, and our community.

Belongingness is also our commitment to bridge with individuals or groups not yet established in our community, acknowledge differences in a way that affirms distinct identities, and allows for a new, more expansive group identity to form.

Equal Opportunity at Prefect:

Prefect is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity/expression), national origin, disability or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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