grantstreet - VP of Accounting
Requirements
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across accounting, finance, controllership, or related functions. • Experience leading managers and building strong finance and accounting teams. • Experience building executive-ready dashboards, reporting packages, and financial presentations. • Advanced Excel and spreadsheet skills, with comfort across financial systems, BI tools, and financial-management software.
Responsibilities
• Set direction, priorities, and operating rhythms across accounting, reporting, treasury, controls, insurance, and risk management. • Manage a high-performing organization with clear accountability, strong cross-functional partnership, and consistent execution. • Partner with the CFO and business leaders on accounting, reporting, and financial governance matters that support strong business decisions. • Ensure the executive team and board have clear, concise, actionable reporting on financial performance, cash flow, and operating results. • Provide executive oversight of the close, external and management reporting, accounting policy application, and audit readiness. • Align teams around a common view of actuals, accruals, and reported results. • Develop talent and strengthen the organization as the company grows. • Strengthen internal controls, reporting standards, and finance processes as the company scales. • Oversee the broader financial governance environment, including compliance with company policies and applicable requirements. • Manage banking relationships and help ensure the company has the right treasury services and financial infrastructure in place. • Oversee liquidity, cash, and treasury discipline to support company operations and growth. • Partner with product leadership and executive team to establish best practices for Payments product, including optimization of fund flows, risk management, and network compliance. • Provide executive oversight of tax planning and compliance in partnership with internal and external advisors. • ## You might be a good fit if you naturally think about... • How do we ensure reporting is timely, accurate, and decision-useful? • What are the key drivers of cash generation, liquidity, and financial discipline? • How do we build an accounting organization that scales with the business? • Where do stronger controls, better reporting, or clearer ownership improve execution? • How do we help the business move quickly while maintaining financial discipline? • Experience in software, SaaS, payments, or other recurring-revenue businesses is a strong plus. • Experience with ERP, close-management, consolidation, or reporting systems is a plus. • ## Education and Credentials • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. • MBA or other advanced degree is a plus. • ## How You Work • You are strategic, hands-on when needed, and effective at leading through others. • You can move easily between high-level business questions and accounting detail. • You communicate clearly and credibly with executives and cross-functional leaders. • You bring strong judgment, follow-through, and a bias toward building better systems and processes. • You are motivated by helping finance operate as a trusted strategic partner to the business.
Benefits
• We reward teamwork, professional excellence, and individual responsibility. • We offer a technology-rich work environment that makes it possible for us to support the needs of our employees wherever they are. • There is minimal travel: 1-2 weeks per year for on-site meetings.
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