Senior Accountant, Aspire
$90-110k
+ Equity
Influencer marketing software platform for eCommerce brands
Job no longer available
Influencer marketing software platform for eCommerce brands
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$90-110k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help brands build communities of ambassadors, influencers, and affiliates to share their brand stories at scale.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a proactive professional with a strong accounting background, proven experience in public accounting or public companies, and a desire to leverage automation to drive efficiency
- SaaS or tech industry experience is highly desirable
- CPA license preferred; a graduate degree in accounting or a related field is a plus
- 5-10 years of accounting experience, including at least 1 year in a Senior Accountant role
- Experience in public accounting or working at publicly traded companies is mandatory
- Expertise in revenue recognition (ASC 606), month-end close, GL accounting, and financial reporting
- Proficiency with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite) and familiarity with financial data tools
- Proven ability to lead process improvement and automation projects, with a focus on reducing manual workflows and improving accuracy
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with a systematic approach to prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines
- SaaS or tech industry experience
- Familiarity with large-scale data management and reconciliation across multiple systems
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Accountant, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial data while identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency through process improvements and automation
- You will collaborate closely with the Finance team and cross-functional partners, including IT, FP&A, and Data teams, to streamline processes, maintain compliance, and provide actionable financial insights for decision-making
- Sales Contract Reviews: Analyze sales contracts to identify revenue implications, ensure alignment with company policies and ASC 606 standards, and collaborate with Deal Desk and Sales teams to address any contractual issues
- Revenue Recognition: Ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition in compliance with ASC 606, partnering with cross-functional teams to review sales transactions, analyze contracts, and implement necessary adjustments or corrections
- General Ledger Oversight: Oversee the integrity of the general ledger, ensuring timely and accurate month-end and year-end close processes, including reconciliations, adjustments, and alignment between sub-ledger and external systems (e.g., Tableau, Metabase)
- Financial Reporting: Prepare and review financial statements with variance analysis, ensuring accuracy, compliance with GAAP, and actionable insights to improve business performance
- Commission Calculations: Calculate and review sales commissions, ensuring accuracy and timely payouts. Provide insights into commission-related expenses and identify potential cost-saving measures
- Audit & Compliance: Support internal and external audits by providing documentation, preparing audit schedules, and implementing recommendations to strengthen internal controls and improve audit readiness
- Process Improvement & Automation: Lead process improvement initiatives, including automating key accounting workflows (e.g., revenue schedules, month-end close) to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and audit readiness. Leverage ERP systems like NetSuite to reduce manual processes
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with IT, FP&A, and data teams to resolve reconciliation issues, align sub-ledger data with accounting records, and ensure accurate reporting and compliance
Our take
Influencer marketing has rapidly gained traction over the last few years, and Aspire exists to help brands make the most of it. It delivers a platform to connect brands with the right influencers to reach their target market, and manage their campaigns from a single place.
With Aspire, marketing teams do not have to spend time researching influencers themselves, with the company claiming to half the time taken to source the right match. The platform also supplies analytics to measure impact and attribute ROI to influencer campaigns, enabling actionable changes to be made to marketing strategies.
Boasting over 400 customers including the likes of Glossier, Coola, and Ruggable, it is clear Aspire has already made good progress. And in 2023, it acquired SaaS eCommerce company CommerceUp, which is helping it to further build and scale influence-driven commerce, with a focus on optimizing marketing spend efficiency for its clients.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2019
$24m
SERIES A
Oct 2015
$2.5m
SEED
Total funding: $27.3m
Company benefits
- Health, dental & vision: Put your health first with 90% covered health insurance.
- Flexible schedules: Set your hours by your calendar, not the clock.
- Unlimited paid time off: Take time to refuel — sans laptop.
- Paid parental leave: Enjoy 4 months off when your family grows.
- WFH stipend: To cover your remote work setup.
- Book reimbursement: Love reading? Let us foot the bill for work-related books.
- Education stipend: Because learning should be lifelong.
- Wellness credit: Get paid to stay active, even if your desk is your couch.
Company HQ
Govalle, Austin, TX
Leadership
Anand Kishore
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Aspire in 2023, Anand was an Analyst at JGE Capital and Goldman Sachs.
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