Lead Accountant

🚀 Join Seeq as Our Next Lead Accountant!
Location: Remote | Industry: SaaS | Team: Accounting & Finance

Are you a detail-driven accountant who thrives on precision and process improvement? Do you enjoy turning complex financial data into meaningful insights? If you’re ready to take the lead in a fast-growing SaaS company, Seeq wants to meet you.

We’re looking for a Lead Accountant to steer our core accounting operations, ensure financial integrity, and help scale our accounting processes as we grow. In this pivotal role, you'll collaborate across teams and lead month-end closes, financial reporting, and compliance initiatives—all while helping us innovate in the world of advanced analytics.

🔍 What You’ll Do

Lead Day-to-Day Accounting Operations

• Review and oversee general ledger activity to ensure accuracy and proper classification
• Approve journal entries and reconciliations prepared by internal and outsourced teams
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and internal policies

Own the Close Process

• Drive month-end and year-end close activities from start to finish
• Analyze and review financial statements and account balances
• Prepare internal financial reports and insights for leadership

Deliver Financial Reporting & Insights

• Support timely and accurate delivery of financial statements
• Conduct variance analysis and highlight key financial trends
• Prepare audit schedules and partner with external auditors

Champion Process Improvements

• Identify and implement enhancements to accounting workflows
• Strengthen internal controls and accounting policy documentation
• Partner with operations and systems teams to scale and automate processes

Be a Cross-Functional Finance Leader

• Collaborate with Finance, Revenue Ops, HR, and other teams to ensure data integrity
• Serve as a trusted advisor on accounting implications of business initiatives
• Liaise with outsourced accounting partners to tackle complex issues

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

• Lead bank loan reporting and ensure accurate monthly package submissions
• Coordinate with tax advisors on compliance across sales, payroll, international, franchise, and corporate taxes

Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• CPA preferred or actively pursuing

Experience & Expertise

• 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally in SaaS or tech
• Strong foundation in U.S. GAAP and financial reporting
• Familiarity with ASC 606 and SaaS revenue models is a big plus

Tech-Savviness

• Proficient in Excel and accounting systems like Intacct, NetSuite, Expensify, Salesforce Billing

Analytical Edge

• Sharp eye for detail with the ability to spot discrepancies and risks
• Confident interpreting complex financial data and telling the story behind the numbers

People Skills

• Clear communicator with the ability to explain finance to non-financial teams
• Collaborative mindset and a natural team player

Organization & Agility

• Excellent time management with the ability to juggle multiple priorities
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment

About Seeq

Seeq is a remote-first (only) company founded by serial entrepreneurs. Our executive team and board of directors have extensive experience with successful startup ventures in high-growth environments.

We are founded on the idea that companies need better solutions for quickly and easily getting business insight from their industrial process data. Our mission is to provide software and services that convert that data into meaningful information that the business can use to improve profitability.

We have a wonderful, kind-hearted, talented team that loves to collaborate, lead by example, and exceed our customers’ expectations. We are certified as a great place to work, an emerging startup, the Technology Fast 500, and Inc. Magazine's Best Places to Work.

The Perks of Working at Seeq

• Competitive salary plus equity incentives
  • $90,000 - $100,000 USD base salary
• Benefits:
  • 12-week paid Seeq family leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Internet and mobile phone reimbursements
  • Medical benefits
  • Group term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance pre-tax benefits
  • Voluntary vision and dental (ortho)
  • Vacation bonus program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Generous home office allowance
  • The best co-workers (we've analyzed the data, so we know it's true.)
  • Pet-friendly workspace (your dog will be so happy to have you home)
  • You love your job!

Seeq provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

You must be authorized to work in the country in which you reside. Seeq does not sponsor US F1 or H-1B work visas.