Senior Accounting Manager

Senior Manager, Accounting Job Description Template - Jan 2024

Think of your favorite book from childhood. Got it? Great. Now, that warm, joyful feeling you have right now—that’s what we do. Literati is a modern children’s book company focused on helping kids fall in love with reading at every age and stage. We make it easy to find great books through our school book fairs, school store fundraising platform, and book clubs using a unique mix of expert curation and data science. We’re on a mission to help parents ignite a love of learning and a love of life.

As a Senior Manager of Accounting focused on leading the accounting function for the business, you’ll be an essential part of ensuring we produce accurate and timely financials and properly report our performance to management. You will be responsible for leading our accounting team, creating best practices, and developing the accounting function to help us scale for the future. You will collaborate with some of the most intelligent and talented people in the industry. The salary range for this role is $125,000-$140,000 per year.

REQUIREMENTS

• Have led a team and the full accounting function, including month-end, tax, annual audit, and management reporting

• Experience with inventory accounting, cycle counts, and reconciliations

• Experience with cash forecasting and management

• Creative and an ability to identify opportunities to improve business processes

• Experience using Netsuite and with complex financial statements

• Bachelor's degree and minimum of five years of experience 

• CPA Required

• Experience in a venture-backed or private equity-backed company

WE’D LOVE TO SEE

• Experience with credit card based revenue and enterprise invoicing

• Experience with Tipalti, Salesforce, and other similar systems

• Strong Excel skills and a hands-on leadership approach

• Strong GAAP experience

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading accounting staff, responsible for accounts payable, tax, and billing/receivables

• Month-end and quarterly close and all general ledger duties

• Reconciling material balance sheet account (inventory, deferred revenue, debt, and similar)

• Leading the annual audit

• Supporting cross-functional stakeholders with reporting, inquiries, and managing third-party relationships

• Produce month-end reporting packages, cash forecasts, and KPI metrics packages for executing management

ABOUT LITERATI

Literati was recently named Inc. magazine’s 7th fastest-growing company in Texas and 77th fastest-growing in the United States, as well as listed in Built In Austin’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 “Best Places to Work.” Jessica Ewing, Literati’s Founder and CEO, was named one of “Google’s Top 12 Most Innovative Minds” by Fast Company. We’ve raised over $60M in venture capital to date, with key investors including Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Felicis, 01A, and Stephen Curry’s SC30.

We offer competitive salaries, company equity, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k, short-term disability insurance, parental leave, employee assistance programs, flexible work schedules, and untracked time off.

We are dedicated to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness that sees, reflects, welcomes, and celebrates the innovation and talent of a diverse array of people. We seek people with drive and a touch of alchemy. We also recognize that some people—particularly underrepresented groups, women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+—may not be comfortable applying to a position unless they meet 100% of the qualifications. Even if your experience isn’t a precise match for the role, we highly encourage you to apply. And if your career has taken you to some spectacular (or spectacularly strange) places, we love a good story.