Senior Accounting & Reporting Analyst

Zip Co Limited

5d•$128,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Accounting & Reporting Analyst is a senior individual contributor within US Accounting & Control. The role strengthens the US close by managing close readiness and reporting, improving visibility into financial results and issues, and supporting accurate, timely, and transparent close outcomes. It combines hands-on accounting execution with ownership of close analytics, reporting packages, quality routines, and accountability mechanisms. The analyst owns one or more day-to-day accounting areas and participates in routine month-end activity, while working across the Controller team to improve close readiness, balance-sheet and P&L analytics, issue visibility, reporting quality, controls, and operating discipline. The role partners with FP&A, Finance Systems, Operations, Data, Audit, Treasury, US Finance Change & Transformation, and other US and Global Finance stakeholders. It applies data, visualization, automation, and emerging AI capabilities to recurring close work while maintaining appropriate accounting judgment, review, governance, and auditability. This is a remote-first opportunity for US-based employees, with the option to work in person from the Manhattan office. The US national annual base salary range is $128,000–$135,000; additional premium percentages may apply based on the company's tiered premium strategy. Total compensation may also include bonus and/or commission awards and other benefits. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

At least 5 years of progressive Accounting or Finance experience, including meaningful hands-on responsibility for month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliations, financial reporting, and analysis.
Strong accounting foundation and working knowledge of US GAAP, with judgment to understand how operational activity, journal entries, account movements, and accounting decisions affect the financial statements.
Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor, independently owning workstreams, navigating ambiguity, setting an approach, coordinating dependencies, and driving work to completion with limited day-to-day oversight.
Strong analytical ability to turn detailed accounting and financial data into insights, identify anomalies and root causes, and explain financial movements.
Advanced Excel or equivalent analytical skills and hands-on experience with data visualization or business-intelligence tools.
Demonstrated controls mindset, including experience with reconciliations, review evidence, process documentation, SOX or audit support, and repeatable quality-control routines.
Ability to communicate clearly with accounting and non-accounting audiences and create concise reporting packages, visual summaries, and issue narratives.
Strong systems aptitude and curiosity about how accounting data is created, transformed, and consumed across ERP, reconciliation, reporting, workflow, and data environments.
Comfort with a fast-moving environment, competing priorities, and evolving processes, with a bias toward ownership and practical problem solving.
Clear alignment with Zip's core values.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a scaled or rapidly evolving environment.
Comfort working with larger datasets, structured data, and reporting logic.
Practical experience using automation and emerging AI tools to improve finance or accounting work.
Comfort experimenting with agentic workflows while understanding human review, data controls, governance, and auditability.
Hands-on NetSuite experience.
SQL or similar data-query experience.

Responsibilities

Manage close-management and close-readiness routines, including calendar discipline, dependency tracking, issue escalation, completion visibility, and follow-up actions.
Build and continuously improve the US Controller close reporting package, summarizing balance-sheet and P&L movements, significant variances, unusual activity, open items, accounting judgments, and control matters for Controller and Finance leadership.
Develop repeatable analytics and visualizations to identify trends, anomalies, breaks, aged items, recurring adjustments, and areas requiring management attention.
Own one or more recurring accounting areas end-to-end, including journal entries, reconciliations, substantiation, supporting schedules, review-ready documentation, and timely issue resolution.
Provide flexible accounting capacity across the close when priorities shift.
Design, operate, and improve review routines, checklists, evidence standards, certifications, issue logs, and other mechanisms that make ownership, status, and exceptions transparent.
Perform and support analytical reviews of account balances and financial-statement movements, investigate root causes, and partner with accounting owners and upstream teams to resolve issues.
Partner with Finance Systems, Data, and business stakeholders to improve source-data quality, reporting logic, reconciliations, and data lineage; define requirements and validate changes against Controller needs.
Partner with Treasury to monitor debt portfolio performance, covenant compliance, and key financing metrics, developing scalable analytics and reporting on trends, risks, and potential compliance issues.
Apply automation, AI, and agentic tools to recurring close work, improving analysis, documentation, reconciliations, control evidence, and issue identification while applying appropriate judgment, review, and governance.
Partner with US Finance Change & Transformation as the Controller team's subject-matter partner for close-related automation and AI use cases by defining requirements, validating outputs, and supporting adoption.
Continuously improve the close calendar, checklists, reporting package, and close-management routines to reduce manual work and unnecessary handoffs while preserving ownership, auditability, and controls.
Coordinate cross-functional workstreams to resolve close issues and remediate root causes, clarifying ownership, dependencies, and follow-up actions and driving sustainable resolution.

Benefits

Flexible working culture.
Incentive programs.
Unlimited PTO.
Generous paid parental leave.
Leading family support policies.
Company-sponsored 401(k) match.
Learning and wellness subscription stipend.
Access to the Union Square office, with a casual dress code.
Employer-sponsored insurance for employees and dependents, including several choices fully covered by Zip.
Total compensation may include bonus and/or commission awards.