Senior Accountant - 66949130282

Role:  Senior Accountant

Priority Location: Latin America, South Africa and Philippines

Working Hours: 9AM - 5PM (Mon - Fri) EST

Salary Range: $3,000 USD ($) per month (The final offer is at the client’s discretion and depends on the candidate’s interview result, skills, and experience.)

Type of contract: Independent Contractor 

Type of job: Remote

 

About the Role:

A growing healthcare services technology startup is hiring a full-time Senior Accountant to take full ownership of its finance function. This person will be the company’s only finance leader, moving the work from an outside bookkeeping firm to one dedicated, in-house professional.

 

Today the company’s books are handled by a third-party bookkeeping service that is getting expensive and splits its attention across many clients. Leadership wants a dedicated accountant with a CPA-level skill set who can run the day-to-day accounting cleanly and also add more value: sharper reporting, projections, and support for investors and the executive team. 

 

As the sole finance lead in a startup, you will report directly to the executive team and own the numbers end to end. Success looks like a smooth handover from the outgoing provider, accurate monthly reporting, a well-controlled payables process, and over time, more automation and better visibility into the numbers.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Own all bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online, taking over from the current outside provider
• Run payroll for a small team
• Prepare monthly income statements and financial reports for the executive team, and support board reporting as needed
• Manage a pay-when-paid workflow: track when services are completed, invoice the customer, record payment receipt, then release payment to the contracted healthcare providers who delivered the work
• Maintain and improve the tracking spreadsheet behind that workflow, and look for ways to automate it
• Set up vendor and provider payments for executive approval under a two-step approval process
• Take on part of the operational financial approval process that happens before items reach finance
• Maintain accurate records of investors and their holdings, and support future fundraising work
• Provide financial information for grant and funding applications
• Build projections and dashboards that give leadership better visibility into performance

 

Qualifications & Skills:

Required

• CPA-level accounting expertise, with the judgment to own a company’s finances independently
• Hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online
• Experience owning full-cycle bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll for a small company
• Experience preparing monthly financial statements, including income statements, for executives and leadership
• Strong reconciliation skills, including matching customer receipts to vendor and contractor payouts
• Able to work full-time during the company’s North American business hours

 

Preferred

• Ideally holds a CPA, Chartered Accountant, or similar professional licensure
• Experience working with Canadian organizations
• Experience as the sole or lead finance professional in a startup or small company
• Controller-level experience with financial projections, forecasting, and dashboards
• Experience maintaining investor records and supporting investor relations work
• Experience preparing financial information for grant or funding applications
• Interest in using automation or AI tools to streamline manual spreadsheet processes
• Background in healthcare services

 

Who thrives in this role:

• Detail-obsessed, the kind of person who reconciles to the cent
• Trustworthy and discreet with sensitive financial information
• Comfortable being the only finance voice in the room and making calls without a team behind them
• Enjoys building structure where processes are still manual
• Comfortable working directly with executives and raising issues early
• Thinks like a future controller, not just a bookkeeper