Senior Accountant

CDS Global•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Senior Accountant is a key contributor responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial records in a high-growth SaaS environment. The role extends beyond transactional accounting and requires strong technical accounting skills, ownership of complex areas, and the ability to work independently with minimal oversight. The successful candidate is a self-starter and problem solver who can manage complexity, anticipate issues, and improve the accounting function as the company scales. The position helps build the organization’s technical accounting foundation by strengthening GAAP expertise, reducing key-person dependency, and improving the quality and scalability of financial reporting. It owns key parts of the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close; leads technical accounting research and documentation; improves accounting processes and controls; supports audit readiness; partners with finance and cross-functional teams; and contributes to system, data-integrity, and automation initiatives. The role also provides guidance to junior accountants and serves as an informal mentor.

Requirements

5–8 years of progressive accounting experience.
Strong background in SaaS, technology, or subscription-based businesses.
Deep knowledge of GAAP.
Working knowledge of ASC 606 and SaaS billing concepts.
Strong understanding of accrual accounting and balance sheet management.
Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and complex reconciliations.
High ownership and accountability.
Strong judgment and attention to detail.
Ability to work with speed and accuracy.
Clear communication skills and strong business acumen.
Comfort working in ambiguous and fast-changing environments.
Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a public-company-ready or audit-heavy environment.
CPA or progress toward CPA certification.
Experience with ERP, billing, and subledger systems, system implementations, enhancements, or automation initiatives.

Responsibilities

Own assigned areas of the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Prepare and review complex journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
Improve balance sheet governance by strengthening reconciliation quality, resolving aged items, and identifying financial reporting risks.
Partner with the Assistant Controller to accelerate close timelines and improve close quality.
Lead technical accounting research and prepare memoranda for complex or non-routine transactions.
Apply GAAP across revenue, accruals, reserves, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and software capitalization.
Support ASC 606 and other technical accounting areas through schedules, analyses, and documentation.
Identify accounting implications of non-standard transactions and recommend actions to Accounting leadership.
Design, document, and improve accounting processes and internal controls.
Identify inefficiencies, root causes, and control gaps, and propose and implement solutions.
Ensure compliance with internal policies, audit standards, and SOX-lite controls.
Support audits by providing clean, well-supported schedules.
Partner with Finance leadership on audit readiness, accounting remediation, and continuous improvement of internal controls.
Work with FP&A, Billing, AR, AP, Payroll, Sales Ops, Product, Legal, and other cross-functional teams.
Translate operational activity into accurate accounting outcomes.
Provide guidance to junior accountants and serve as an informal mentor.
Maintain system discipline across ERP, billing, and subledgers.
Partner in system implementations, enhancements, and automation initiatives.
Use Excel and reporting tools to reconcile data and identify risks.
Independently own assigned close areas, learn key accounting policies and systems, identify process or control improvements, and build reliable partnerships with Accounting leadership and cross-functional teams.