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Director of Technical Accounting

Whop · Palo Alto, CA · On-site

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About Whop

Whop is the place for business operators. Scale up customer acquisition and distribute your products with a few clicks. Spin up an empire in an afternoon. Backed by Insight.

About the role

We are seeking a Director of Accounting to serve as a senior technical accounting resource and a builder of scalable corporate-accounting processes. This leader will own or lead the accounting analysis and execution for complex accounting matters across the business, including leases, equity and stock-based compensation, cost capitalization, impairment, debt and other financing arrangements, revenue, and other non-routine transactions.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of progressive accounting experience with a meaningful technical accounting and financial-reporting component, fintech, SaaS, or another high-growth technology environment preferred
  • Deep U.S. GAAP knowledge across leases, equity and stock-based compensation, capitalization, impairment, financing transactions, and revenue
  • Track record drafting technical accounting memos, preparing disclosures, and working directly with external auditors
  • Hands-on experience owning or implementing an ERP, ideally NetSuite, and using modern finance tools and automation to improve the close
  • A track record of proactively using AI tools to refine or create new processes with demonstrated, significant gains in speed. Experience with GitHub is a nice to have
  • CPA required or strongly preferred, Big Four or similarly rigorous public-accounting experience preferred
More about this role

Whop is on a mission to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Today, 50,000 people make money on Whop every month, and Whop users are on track to earn more than $5 billion this year. We are building the infrastructure for the next generation of internet entrepreneurs, and we will keep going until one billion people earn money on Whop every month.

We are seeking a Director of Accounting to serve as a senior technical accounting resource and a builder of scalable corporate-accounting processes.

This leader will own or lead the accounting analysis and execution for complex accounting matters across the business, including leases, equity and stock-based compensation, cost capitalization, impairment, debt and other financing arrangements, revenue, and other non-routine transactions.

Serve as the company’s technical accounting authority: research, conclude on, and document complex and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP, including leases, equity and stock-based compensation, capitalized costs, fixed and intangible assets, impairment, debt and financing arrangements, revenue, and strategic transactions.

Own financial-statement disclosures, footnotes, accounting policies, and...

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