Senior Accountant

About Scope3

Scope3 is the industry’s leading collaborative sustainability platform. By modeling the complex digital advertising supply chain, we help brands measure and dramatically reduce digital waste to reduce carbon emissions from advertising and increase the efficacy of advertising investment. This is an exceptional opportunity to build a company alongside great people and make a difference in one of the most important issues facing the planet: the climate crisis.

We’re a reliably-funded company of 100 folks distributed across the globe. We are fortunate to be led by an experienced leadership team, many of whom designed and engineered the digital advertising landscape as we know it today. The company secured $20M in Series B funding led by GV in Oct 2023 (additional investors include Venrock, Rucker Park, Room40 Ventures, and Craft Ventures), and we are thrilled to be the recipient of a secondary round of $25M in Oct 2024. Scope3 has significant market traction with more than 70+ customers and is experiencing accelerated growth.

Scope3 is a fully remote company and largely asynchronous to provide flexible working hours and to operate globally, with concentrations in New York and Europe. At this time, we are hiring in Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, and the United States.

About The Role

Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Accountant will play a pivotal role in maintaining accurate financial statements and ensuring compliance with accounting principles. This individual will collaborate with key partners across the company to drive process improvements and support our financial operations.

For this position, we are looking to hire in the US, specifically located within Eastern Standard Time to optimize for global collaboration.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee and ensure the integrity of transactions throughout the accounting cycle
• Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and analytical reviews
• Research and review transactions and provide necessary analyses
• Assist with financial statements and tax audits; lead and assist in preparing audit schedules, providing data to auditors, coordinating with auditors and responding to their queries
• Work closely with FP&A to enhance reliability and accuracy of forecasts and reports
• Assist with developing, documenting, implementing, and maintaining streamlined process improvements, accounting policies, controls, and procedures as needed
• Ad hoc accounting requests and projects as needed

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting; active CPA license
• 4-6+ years of progressive accounting experience
• Extensive knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and US tax regulations
• Strong technical accounting skills with experience in month-end close, reconciliations and audit preparation
• Strong analytical skills and high level of comfort working with large data sets
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully work on multiple concurrent projects and manage competing priorities
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively across all levels of the organization
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal & written communication skills
• Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with accounting software and programs

Preference May Be Given To Candidates With The Following:

• Prior experience in the advertising technology or internet industries
• Experience contributing to technical accounting memos including revenue recognition
• Experience with Wayfair ruling tax matters
• Experience working remotely in globally distributed startup environments

A Note To Applicants

Thank you for your interest in joining our team. We believe that all people are capable of great things. Because of this, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

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Our Culture is rooted in …  

• A passion for the environment and climate work. We are a mission-driven company, and this is what motivates us to work hard and deliver outcomes for our customers. 
• A desire to communicate clearly and empathetically while working asynchronously. We have always been a globally distributed, remote-first company and leverage remote-friendly tools to collaborate such as Slack, Zoom, Notion, Miro, etc. 
• Celebration of healthy conflict in the workplace; differences in approach are good! We focus on the solutions and we move on quickly. 
• The ability and accountability to deliver what we promise. We do what we say we will do, and we don’t make promises we can’t keep. 
• Experience driving systemic change. Our mission is to decarbonize advertising and this requires a holistic approach to re-imagining and inspiring an industry movement at a global scale.