Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

The Senior Accountant of Financial Reporting will help prepare and manage our internal and external financial reporting build-out in accordance with SEC standards. You will be involved in consolidated financial reporting and analysis, technical accounting projects, carrying out new processes, and helping manage cross-functional efforts with the accounting team to ensure they are kept informed on new accounting standards and implications of financial transactions. You are comfortable with quickly adapting to change and will champion the advancement of processes and controls surrounding financial reporting and technical accounting.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Prepare monthly consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, including Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow, ensuring internal consistency and period-over-period continuity.

• Prepare materials for the financial statement disclosure process, including drafting footnotes, maintaining the disclosure checklist, and managing all related support documentation.

• Prepare quarterly high-level fluctuation analysis for the Balance Sheet and Income Statement to document significant changes between periods.

• Collaborate with the Controllers group, FP&A, and the international accounting group to ensure income statements and balance sheet transactions are classified correctly

• Stay updated on Regulation S-X and S-K requirements, applying them to financial presentations and disclosures within quarterly and annual reports

• Partner with the Senior Manager to design and implement new internal control procedures for month-end close and quarterly reporting.

• Assist with the technical implementation and adoption of new accounting standards and identify new disclosures required by US GAAP updates.

• Manage the monthly stock-based compensation process, including preparing the workbook, calculating expense, and recording journal entries in accordance with ASC 718

• Coordinate with Legal to facilitate equity transaction processing (grants, exercises, vesting) and ensure accurate financial recording.

• Prepare equity-specific reporting, including footnote support and assisting with the quarterly equity cycle.

• Work with external and internal auditors, providing supporting documentation for quarterly reviews and annual audits.

• Assist with special projects and ad-hoc financial initiatives as needed.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a member of the Financial Reporting team, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.

• Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.

• Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.

• Organizational awareness - maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.

• Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.

• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.

• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.

• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.

• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in public audit; CPA license or on track for CPA required

• Financial reporting experience required

• Proficient in using MS Office suite. NetSuite, Carta and SQL experience a plus

• Have a fundamental understanding of a full month-end close process

• Demonstrate their ability to be detail oriented, intelligent; and inquisitive nature

• Exhibits accountability and ownership

• Able to work without supervision and meet tight deadlines

• Interest in learning new processes and implementing the latest technology in a fast-paced, data-driven environment

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $97,000.00 - $106,700.00 per year.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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