Lead Accountant

Bloom Equity Partners • Dallas, TX

3d • Remote

About The Position

Soutron Global is seeking a Lead Accountant for its Group Finance team, supporting a multi-entity software business. This is a remote position based in the United States or Canada. Soutron Global provides library, archive, and collections management software for the GLAM market (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). The group consists of multiple acquired companies operating across the US, Canada, and the UK, with a focus on recurring revenue and strong retention. The finance function is currently small, with a Controller, a part-time Staff Accountant, and an Accounting Administrator, supporting legacy systems while a NetSuite implementation is underway. This role is crucial for taking ownership of the monthly close, reconciliations, billing, collections, and leading finance workstreams for the NetSuite migration.

Requirements

• Full ownership of a monthly close in a multi-entity environment, including reviewing others' work.
• Hands-on ASC 606 experience in a subscription software or SaaS business.
• Prepared deferred revenue roll-forwards and worked with multi-element contracts.
• Understanding of the difference between booking, invoicing, and revenue recognition.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience, with migration or implementation exposure preferred.
• Multi-currency and intercompany experience, including preparing translation, remeasurement, and intercompany entries.
• Accounts receivable and collections ownership with a track record of improving aging profiles.
• Supervisory experience, including managing or closely reviewing at least one person's work and providing difficult feedback.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Five or more years of progressive accounting experience.

Nice To Haves

• CPA or CA, or actively pursuing it.
• Experience in a private-equity-backed business.
• Experience bringing an acquired set of books onto a group chart of accounts and close calendar.
• Cross-border US and Canada experience, including indirect tax in both.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Power Query.
• Fluency with reporting tools to answer own questions.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly and quarterly close calendar across all group entities, ensuring timely completion.
• Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepaids, deferred revenue, intercompany, and foreign exchange entries.
• Own balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring documented and reviewed reconciliations for all material accounts with supporting schedules.
• Prepare monthly reporting packs for the Controller, including variance commentary.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies between financial reports.
• Execute revenue accounting under ASC 606 for various revenue streams including SaaS, licenses, support, implementation services, training, and third-party pass-through.
• Own deferred revenue and contract asset roll-forwards, reconciling them to the contract population.
• Review new and renewing contracts against the revenue checklist, escalating non-standard terms or complex arrangements.
• Maintain schedules supporting the revenue recognition policy.
• Own billing accuracy across renewals, new business, change orders, and professional services.
• Own the accounts receivable ledger and collections process, including aging discipline, dunning cycles, escalation paths, and reporting.
• Improve the aging profile of accounts receivable, working with sales, customer success, and public sector procurement.
• Own accounts payable, including approval workflows, vendor master integrity, payment runs, and tax reporting (1099 and T4A).
• Manage finance-side migration work for NetSuite, including opening balance validation, sub-ledger tie-out, historical comparatives, and parallel run reconciliation.
• Operate NetSuite day-to-day, including the general ledger, AR/AP, revenue module, and multi-currency functionalities.
• Build NetSuite saved searches, reports, and dashboards to replace offline spreadsheets.
• Document NetSuite configurations and write desk procedures.
• Supervise and develop the Staff Accountant and Accounting Administrator, including allocating work, reviewing output, and setting standards.
• Write desk procedures for the entire finance team.
• Recommend future team structure as the group grows.
• Prepare audit and review schedules, manage request lists, and clear items on time.
• Support indirect tax compliance with advisors (US sales and use tax, Canadian GST/HST, UK VAT, state/provincial registrations).
• Execute finance-side controls for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness, including evidence of approvals, segregation of duties, and access reviews.

What This Job Offers

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