Accountant

Relay • Raleigh, NC

15d • Onsite

About The Position

Relay is seeking an Accountant to join their team. This role focuses on cash visibility, expense management, and acting as a liaison between Accounting, FP&A, and People Services. The Accountant will be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, performing reconciliations, managing expense platforms, and ensuring timely month-end close. This position is crucial for providing reliable visibility into financial operations and supporting informed decision-making across the organization. The role also involves optimizing systems and processes, including the adoption of AI and automation tools, to enhance efficiency and data integrity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a highly related field.
• 1-3 years of progressive accounting experience (internship experience in a corporate accounting or public accounting setting is a plus).
• Strong foundational understanding of US GAAP.
• High attention to detail with a knack for identifying variances and troubleshooting data mismatches.
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively coordinate across departments and explain financial requirements to non-finance team members.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tech-forward environment with evolving automated workflows.
• Comfortable learning and thoughtfully leveraging AI and automation tools to improve productivity, accuracy, and efficiency.

Nice To Haves

• Progress toward Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation is a strong plus.
• Direct experience navigating and utilizing NetSuite.
• Prior experience with payroll system reporting.
• Experience working with financial close automation platforms (e.g., FloQast, Numeric, NetClose).
• Familiarity with Navan is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform bank reconciliations in NetSuite and partner with the billing team to ensure customer payments are properly applied.
• Administer Relay’s modern expense (Navan) and corporate card platform (Brex), including streamlining employee onboarding/offboarding workflows and curating spending policies.
• Monitor transaction data to ensure policy adherence, identify spending trends, and surface unusual or out-of-policy activity.
• Serve as the liaison between Accounting, FP&A, and People Services, ensuring accurate and timely reflection of payroll data in NetSuite.
• Partner with FP&A to translate payroll data into departmental headcount spend, ensuring proper allocation to expense categories and cost centers.
• Own the full lifecycle of assigned balance sheet accounts, including preparing journal entries, completing balance sheet reconciliations, and performing bank reconciliations.
• Collaborate with the FP&A team to ensure operating expenses are accurately allocated and reported by department.
• Support the integrity of management reporting by ensuring transactions are coded to the correct cost center and OpEx classification.
• Partner closely with the billing department to ensure timely and accurate application of customer payments.
• Lead the fulfillment of internal and external audit requests for assigned areas, providing well-documented workpapers.
• Serve as the primary administrator for Relay’s corporate T&E card program and Navan platform, managing card issuance, limit adjustments, and transaction approvals.
• Collaborate with Accounting and IT teams to optimize the integration of third-party applications with the NetSuite ERP.
• Proactively identify, recommend, and implement internal process and reporting improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and internal controls.

Benefits

• 100% Paid Insurance: Health, Dental, Vision, Long/Short Term Disability, and Life Insurance for you and your dependents
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Savings Plan + Company Match
• Baby Cash Reward + Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Perks: Access to a world-class onsite fitness center with instructor-led classes, plus tennis, basketball, pickleball, and cycling (for Raleigh-based HQ)
• Team Events & Culture
• Latest tech, standing desks, and all the tools and software you need to thrive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level