Senior GL Accountant
About The Position
Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead. At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment. Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities. The Role We are looking for a highly motivated, hands-on, results-driven Senior GL Accountant to join our rapidly growing Finance organization. This role will be responsible for supporting the monthly and quarterly accounting close process and working closely with our International Accounting Team to create accurate and timely consolidated financial reporting. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Accounting & SEC Reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 3+ years of relevant accounting experience
- Strong understanding of current US GAAP accounting
- Ability to thrive in a fast-growing environment where change is the norm; strong multi-tasking skills, and flexibility to switch from one project to the next quickly
- Excellent communications skills
- Must be able to interact and communicate effectively with all levels of management
- Ability to work independently and as a team player
- Highly proficient in MS office applications: Word, Excel, Power Point
- Excellent attention to detail
- Great interpersonal skills and ability to work well with others
Nice To Haves
- CPA or CPA candidate is a plus
- Public Accounting experience
- Experience with NetSuite
Responsibilities
- Support the accounting close process for North America and adhere to monthly close schedule for preparing and reviewing accurate journal entries and completing reconciliations timely
- Manage daily accounting activities (Leases, prepaid expenses, intercompany and complex accruals)
- Participate in the external audit process, with a specific focus on collecting key financial and accounting data
- Lead the development, maintenance and documentation of all policies and procedures related to assigned areas of responsibility
- Play a key part in creating synergies between GL Operations and the SEC Reporting & Technical Accounting teams
- Be an integral part of M&A accounting roles and responsibilities
- Collaborate with business partners to effectively deploy new operating processes and controls
- Identify opportunities for process improvements or automation and lead the execution
- Support management in completing special projects and other ad hoc assignments as required
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
- Retirement programs
- 1% charitable giving program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
