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Senior Accountant

Exactera · San Diego · On-site

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About Exactera

Exactera is the AI-enabled tax partner reinventing tax for multinational companies. We help finance and tax teams plan, optimize, document, and defend their tax strategy across international tax and transfer pricing, indirect tax, and R&D credits. Backed by Insight Partners.

About the role

Exactera is scaling its finance function and is looking for a highly dependable Senior Accountant who combines strong US GAAP knowledge with a process-builder mindset and a high degree of personal accountability. This role is for someone who earns trust by delivering accurate work on tight schedules, raising issues early, and driving them through to resolution.

What they're looking for

  • 3 to 5+ years of progressive accounting experience and a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
  • Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and hands-on experience with monthly close, journal entries, accruals and cutoff, balance sheet reconciliations, operating expenses, and cost of revenue
  • A demonstrated record of delivering accurate work under tight close, reporting, or audit deadlines, prioritizing effectively, and communicating risks early
  • A strong auditability mindset. Your work is supported, documented, organized, and capable of standing up to Controller and external-auditor review, including when accounting judgment is required
  • Proven experience owning and improving accounting processes, finding where they break or fail to scale, and building reconciliations, controls, and documentation that produce accurate, repeatable results
  • Experience across procure-to-pay, payroll accounting, and intercompany accounting, ideally in a multi-entity environment
More about this role

Exactera has offices in New York City, Tarrytown NY, San Diego, CA, London, and Argentina.

Exactera is scaling its finance function and is looking for a highly dependable Senior Accountant who combines strong US GAAP knowledge with a process-builder mindset and a high degree of personal accountability. This role is for someone who earns trust by delivering accurate work on tight schedules, raising issues early, and driving them through to resolution.

Exactera helps large multinationals manage complex tax work, including transfer pricing, R&D tax credits, indirect tax, and audit defense. We are evolving from a software-and-services business into an AI-native, tech-enabled services company where technology performs more of the underlying work and experienced practitioners provide the judgment required for accurate, defensible outcomes.

You will take ownership across the corporate accounting activities behind our P&L, including cost of revenue, operating expenses, procure-to-pay, payroll, intercompany accounting, and related balance sheet accounts. You will work in close partnership with both the Controller and Director of FP&A to ensure these areas are accurate, well supported,...

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