Vay - Senior Accountant

• Build, don’t just maintain: Help develop and scale Vay’s accounting function during a transformational period of growth, creating the processes and controls where none exist yet. • Build, don’t just maintain: • Complex, multi-entity scope: Own core close responsibilities across multiple entities and countries, with real exposure to IFRS consolidations and technical accounting. • Complex, multi-entity scope: • Shape how finance works: Use AI and automation to modernize the close, and contribute to systems, audit readiness, and management reporting as a trusted senior member of the team. • Shape how finance works: • What you’ll be driving • Own key month-end close functions: Handle journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, consolidations, intercompany, and foreign currency accounting across multiple entities and countries, and help shorten the close cycle. • Own key month-end close functions: • Build and improve accounting processes: Develop new processes and reconciliations for areas without established procedures, and strengthen existing processes, internal controls, finance systems, audit readiness, and management reporting. • Build and improve accounting processes: • Navigate technical accounting: Research and conclude on accounting treatment for new or complex transactions with no established precedent. • Navigate technical accounting: • Document procedures and policies: Create and maintain clear documentation of processes, controls, and accounting positions so the team can run them consistently as we scale. • Document procedures and policies: • Automate the close: Identify and help implement AI and automation to reduce manual month-end work. • Automate the close: • Partner with FP&A and the business: Maintain and reconcile accruals and review monthly budget vs. actuals. • Partner with FP&A and the business: • Support audit and tax: Prepare accurate audit deliverables and state and regulatory tax filings. • Support audit and tax: • Guide junior team members: Share knowledge and support less experienced teammates on close tasks and complex transactions. • Guide junior team members: • You might be a great fit, if • You have 5+ years of accounting experience (public accounting and/or high-growth tech preferred), with a strong month-end close and audit preparation experience, ideally in a fast-paced startup or tech environment • Comfortable making sound accounting calls and building processes where no standard procedure exists • Proven ability to design, implement, and optimize close processes and internal controls for efficiency and risk management • Experience with IFRS reporting preferred; strong US GAAP background welcome • Hands-on experience using AI or automation to streamline accounting work, with good judgment on when to review outputs • Experience with NetSuite or equivalent ERP; strong Excel skills • Detail-oriented, proactive collaborator who can influence stakeholders and navigate ambiguity