Senior Accountant

Shift Media Holdings Inc

20h • $100,000 - $118,000 • Remote

About The Position

EditShare exists to simplify storytelling and empower media professionals beyond our storage. Our solutions streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and optimize media production, ensuring creative teams can focus on what they do best—telling compelling stories.

We go beyond storage by providing end-to-end media management solutions that cover everything from ingest to archive, workflow automation, cloud integration, and seamless remote collaboration. With our ever-expanding range of innovative tools, we help teams work smarter, improve efficiency, and unlock their full creative potential. Integration and collaboration are at the heart of everything we build, ensuring our customers have the flexibility and power to bring stories to life.

At the core of our ecosystem is EditShare File System (EFS) - a world-class, high-performance, and scalable storage solution designed for the most demanding media workflows. EFS delivers unmatched reliability, seamless failover, and lightning-fast collaboration, allowing media teams to work together effortlessly, whether on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.

Our comprehensive product suite includes:

EFS Storage -  Scalable, high-performance shared storage for media workflows
Flow PAM - A powerful media asset management and workflow automation platform
MediaSilo - A secure, cloud-based platform for review, approval, and media sharing
Wiredrive - A collaboration tool built for creative agencies and production teams
Screeners.com -  A secure, high-quality streaming and screening platform for content distribution

Together, these solutions empower media professionals with seamless collaboration, efficient content management, and industry-leading security, ensuring their creative vision comes to life with ease.

In the first three months you will: 

Take on the timely and accurate accounting for all financial transactions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory and expenses.
Take on the day-to-day management and administration of the company’s banking and treasury platforms.
Responsible for all financial administrative tasks and ensure smooth financial operations.

 Within the first six months you will:

Be comfortable with the processing of all daily transactions in NetSuite financial management platform
Support the management accounting of inventory, prepayments, and accruals

 Within the first twelve months you will:

Contribute to delivering change and financial process design and improvement
Prepare files in support of the local audit requirements in the US, assist with UK financials when needed

 On an ongoing basis you will:

Maintain and manage the account reconciliations, staying flexible with changing business requirements 
Lead Monthly Close process, while identifying and making improvements to reduce close time
Support the preparation of balance sheet reconciliations and investigate and clear differences
Develop, monitor, and enforce internal controls, policies and procedures across the company
Perform ad hoc financial analysis as required and support financial and business wide change projects
Prepare supplementary reporting to third parties (Bank & PE Firm, Delaware, UK..)
Accounts Payable:
Ensure all vendor invoices and employee expense reports are entered into the accounting system in a timely and accurate manner and are properly approved and documented.
Maintain and update vendor master data and ledgers
Manage 1099 invoice and vendor classification, as well as year-end 1099 reporting.
Address vendor inquiries, research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
Own Semi-Monthly US Payroll (ADP WFN)
Partner with HR for employee onboarding and offboarding
Collaborate with counterparts in different regions to streamline intercompany processes.
Oversee and reconcile transactions involving multiple currencies, managing exchange rate fluctuations effectively.
Provide relevant monthly reports to Management on a consistent and ad hoc basis.
Assist with year-end financial audit requirements.
Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
Ensure GAAP compliance and accounting best practices.
Maintain and update accounting policies and procedures as necessary.
Continuously look for opportunities to generate efficiencies and increase the effectiveness of financial operations.
Additional projects as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a staff accountant role
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in accounting
• Experience working with private equity or VC owned companies
• Analytical, self-motivated, and highly organized, high attention to detail and accuracy
• Takes initiative and identifies better ways to do things. Likes solving problems and finding opportunities for efficiency
• Advanced NetSuite skills
• Knowledge of international accounting standards and operations, experience working across time zones
• Experience with ADP WorkforceNow
• Advanced Excel skills, champion of pivot tables
• Flexible, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity
• A curious mindset

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Salesforce.com [http://salesforce.com]
• CPA
• Experience working with multiple entities under one umbrella

Responsibilities

• Take on the timely and accurate accounting for all financial transactions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory and expenses.
• Take on the day-to-day management and administration of the company’s banking and treasury platforms.
• Responsible for all financial administrative tasks and ensure smooth financial operations.
• Be comfortable with the processing of all daily transactions in NetSuite financial management platform
• Support the management accounting of inventory, prepayments, and accruals
• Contribute to delivering change and financial process design and improvement
• Prepare files in support of the local audit requirements in the US, assist with UK financials when needed
• Maintain and manage the account reconciliations, staying flexible with changing business requirements
• Lead Monthly Close process, while identifying and making improvements to reduce close time
• Support the preparation of balance sheet reconciliations and investigate and clear differences
• Develop, monitor, and enforce internal controls, policies and procedures across the company
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis as required and support financial and business wide change projects
• Prepare supplementary reporting to third parties (Bank & PE Firm, Delaware, UK..)
• Ensure all vendor invoices and employee expense reports are entered into the accounting system in a timely and accurate manner and are properly approved and documented.
• Maintain and update vendor master data and ledgers
• Manage 1099 invoice and vendor classification, as well as year-end 1099 reporting.
• Address vendor inquiries, research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
• Own Semi-Monthly US Payroll (ADP WFN)
• Partner with HR for employee onboarding and offboarding
• Collaborate with counterparts in different regions to streamline intercompany processes.
• Oversee and reconcile transactions involving multiple currencies, managing exchange rate fluctuations effectively.
• Provide relevant monthly reports to Management on a consistent and ad hoc basis.
• Assist with year-end financial audit requirements.
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
• Ensure GAAP compliance and accounting best practices.
• Maintain and update accounting policies and procedures as necessary.
• Continuously look for opportunities to generate efficiencies and increase the effectiveness of financial operations.
• Additional projects as needed.

Benefits

• This is a work from home position, due to collaboration across the globe we are looking for someone in the eastern time zone.
• 100% company-paid employee health insurance (BCBS PPO), Delta Dental, VSP vision
• 85% company-paid dependent coverage for medical (dependent coverage for dental and vision is paid 100% by EditShare)
• 100% company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• 10 days of sick leave every year
• 13 paid holidays
• The opportunity to work with and learn from an amazing group of people

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees