Senior Staff Accountant

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Staff Accountant to join our accounting team. This role will focus on expense accounting, month-end close, and financial reporting within our fast-growing fintech/payments business. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills and hands-on experience with complex accounting transactions. As a senior member of the team, you will play a key role in driving accurate financial reporting, supporting audits, and partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize processes.

What You'll Do

• Lead expense accounting and accrual processes, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, timely resolution of discrepancies, and proper supporting documentation.
• Analyze contracts, invoices, and business transactions to provide guidance on proper expense classification and accrual treatment.
• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual expense and accrual schedules, identifying trends and providing actionable insights.
• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, timely resolution of discrepancies, and proper supporting documentation.
• Support external and internal audits by preparing schedules, providing documentation, and responding to inquiries accurately and promptly.
• Drive process improvements across corporate accounting workflows to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including FP&A, Marketing, and Technology to review contracts and assess accounting impact.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders on expense and accrual matters, providing recommendations and insights to support business decisions.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or relevant certification preferred.
• 3–5+ years of accounting experience
• Deep understanding of US GAAP and practical experience applying it to complex expense and accrual scenarios.
• Experience in public accounting or fast-paced industry roles preferred.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Workday and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
• Proven ability to lead projects, drive process improvements, and mentor junior staff.

About Avid Xchange

Avid Xchange is a leading provider of accounts payable (“AP”) automation software and payment solutions for middle-market businesses and their suppliers. By trade, we are a technology company, but if you ask anyone who works here, they’ll tell you our people are at the core of who we are. At Avid Xchange,
mindset is everything
. We are Connected
as People
, Growth Minded
, and Customer Obsessed
. These three mindsets represent our culture – who weare, who we’ve always been, and they guide usto improve every day.

Since our founding in 2000 in Charlotte, NC, we’ve created a company of over 1,500 teammates working across the U.S., or remotely. Avid Xchange is proud to be Certified™ as aGreat Place to Work ®. The prestigious recognition is based on anonymous data from our teammates and makes official what our teammates have known for years – that Avid Xchange is a Great Place to Work®.

Who you are:

• A go-getter with an entrepreneurial mindset – that meansyou arenot afraid of taking risks,winning bigorfacing the unknown.
• Someone who understands that business ispeople centric. Connecting with others as humans first allows you to develop mutually beneficial working relationships.
• Focused onmaking a difference for our customers. Avid Xchange exists to help solve complex problems for our customers so we can all realize our potential.

What you’ll get:

Avid Xchange teammates (we call them Avid Xers) get the perks and prestige of a growing tech company paired with the flexibility of a founder-led startup. We help our Avid Xers develop as professionals and as human beings, providing work/life balance, development programs, and competitive benefits. At Avid Xchange, we are building more than a tech company – we are building an experience.

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