Accounting Associate- Bilingual (Spanish)

As a Accounting Associate at 5, you will play a key role in performing and supporting the company’s core accounting operations. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working across accounting, payroll, and expense management while helping ensure accuracy, consistency, and strong financial controls as the business grows.

You’ll partner closely with internal teams, external CPA firms, our PEO, and our Mexico-based accounting team to support timely close processes, reliable financial reporting, and continuous improvement across our finance operations. At 5, we offer an open, collaborative environment where ownership is encouraged, curiosity is valued, and your work has a direct impact on how the business operates day to day.

• Perform accounting operations for 5’s revenue and accounts receivable, ensuring accurate billing, timely issuance of invoices and collections
• Handle accounts payable processes, including expense classification, payment approvals, and cash-flow alignment
• Perform and review monthly balance sheet and income statement reconciliations, including bank accounts, credit cards, receivables, and payables
• Prepare, review, and analyze financial statements, schedules, and supporting documentation, ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Drive continuous improvements in the speed, accuracy, and scalability of the financial close process
• Serve as the primary accounting lead and liaison with external CPA firms and the Mexico-based accounting team
• Apply understanding of accrual and cash-basis accounting to ensure appropriate treatment of transactions and financial reporting
• Review monthly Mexico accounting activity prepared by Mexico accounting team

 

• Build and maintain Excel workbooks to support reconciliations, roll forwards, and month-end close activities
• Maintain organized Excel schedules to support audits and management reporting
• Perform data validation and cross-checks in Excel to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial information
• Assist in creating standardized Excel templates to improve efficiency and consistency
• Support ad hoc financial analyses and reporting requests using Excel

•  Manage bi-weekly payroll inputs in FTE and 1099 payroll systems
• Assist in onboarding new hires ensuring proper set up in the PEO system

• Manage 5’s corporate credit card accounts
• Manage 5’s employee expense reporting process (Concur)