Senior Accountant

Hire Overseas

5h•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Accountant to own the full accounting function for a fast-scaling premium food brand sold through major retail, natural channel, and DTC. You will take over day-to-day accounting from an outside firm, run the monthly close end to end, own the general ledger and financial statements, and lead the company's deduction and chargeback recovery function. This is a build-and-own role, not a maintenance seat. This is a technology-forward accounting role. You will run the company's cloud finance stack, build dashboards and automated workflows, use Claude as a daily working tool, and operate at the output of a much larger finance function. If you have strong full-cycle accounting depth, US GAAP experience, CPG or food and beverage industry background, and you are genuinely excited about using AI and automation to do finance better and faster, this role is a strong fit.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field
At least 5 years of full-cycle accounting experience including running a monthly close and preparing financial statements
CPG, FMCG, food and beverage, or consumer goods experience strongly preferred
Working command of US GAAP and US accounting standards with experience supporting US-based companies
Genuinely cloud-native and tech-savvy — strong with spreadsheets and cloud accounting, able to build dashboards, integrate tools, and work AI-first
Comfortable owning and running a Xero and Airtable stack, not just operating inside it
Exposure to trade spend, deductions, and distributor and retailer chargeback disputes, or the ability to get up to speed fast and run that workflow across a distributed team
Excellent written and spoken English with strong, proactive communication across time zones
Flags issues early and closes loops without being asked

Nice To Haves

CPA or local equivalent
Experience building automated accounting workflows using AI tools including Claude
Background supporting a high-growth or venture-backed consumer brand
Experience working with natural channel distributors such as UNFI or KeHE
Prior experience internalizing accounting from an outside firm

Responsibilities

Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close on a proactive, tight calendar with no chasing and no surprises
Own accounts payable, accounts receivable, bank and credit card reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and intercompany entries
Maintain an accurate, reconciled balance sheet and a clear, timely income statement with variance commentary management can act on
Work closely with the outside accounting firm to internalize their work and steadily take full ownership of the close
Apply US GAAP revenue recognition for CPG and FMCG including gross-to-net, trade spend, slotting, promotions, and returns so the top line is clean and defensible
Prepare financial statements that are audit-ready and lender-ready at all times
Own audit prep and support external auditors and tax preparers
Keep the books GAAP-compliant, fully reconciled, and backed by a clean audit trail so financials can go to banks and lenders and stand up to scrutiny
Own the distributor and retail deduction and chargeback function end to end including shortages, MCBs, spoilage, and freight chargebacks
Identify, document, validate, and dispute deductions, file at scale, track recovery, and lead the distributed workflow that recovers cash that would otherwise be lost
Reach out proactively to customers and distributors on AR, collections, and disputed deductions to resolve issues early and keep cash coming in
Proactively analyze margin, COGS, vendor spend, and freight to find inefficiencies and cost leaks
Bring management specific, actionable ways to save money without being asked
Manage cash reporting, AR aging, vendor terms, and inputs to forecasting and the line of credit
Own sales tax, 1099s, and internal controls
Keep the company diligence-ready as it raises capital
Own and run the cloud finance stack including Xero and Airtable with disciplined, well-documented books
Build and maintain live dashboards and trackers for close status, AR aging, deductions and recovery, cash, and margin so the team sees the numbers without asking
Connect and automate across systems including the ledger, banks, Airtable, deduction management, OCR, and settlement tooling so data flows without manual re-keying
Use Claude daily as a real working tool to reconcile, categorize, draft dispute packages, and speed up analysis, and design repeatable documented processes around it