Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Senior Financial Reporting Analyst to join the Finance team.

As a member of Sprout's finance team, you'll help better position Sprout for future growth while maintaining compliance and integrity at the highest level. No matter your role, everyone on the team has the opportunity to be a part of creating best-in-class processes and practices that can scale with the organization. Our team is unique because we value transparency and direct ownership of responsibilities-meaning, you'll always have our trust to help contribute to our overall goals and success as a department and organization.

• Assist in the preparation of Sprout's SEC filings, such as 8-Ks, 10-Qs and 10-Ks, including the associated XBRL tagging requirements
• Prepare financial statements, footnotes, MD&A, and other disclosures in accordance with U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
• Create underlying work papers and analyses to support the company's disclosures and prepare the disclosure checklist
• Work cross-functionally with various stakeholders, including Legal, Investor Relations, Finance and Accounting, in order to complete Sprout's SEC filings
• Ensure SOX compliance throughout our financial reporting and related processes
• Interface with external auditors and facilitate their procedures over Sprout's SEC filings
• Perform ad hoc disclosure benchmarking research of peer group companies
• Prepare share-based compensation entries and reconciliation for month-end close and provide equity-related analysis
• Utilize artificial intelligence to enhance Sprout's financial reporting and technical accounting processes
• Participate in other technical accounting and SEC reporting work streams and ad hoc projects

We are looking for an individual who is self-motivated with strong attention to details, proven ability to work both independently and cross-functionally and drive to take on new challenges. If you have a background in financial reporting and are passionate about delivering quality results and driving continual improvement in a dynamic, high-growth environment, we'd love to talk to you!

The minimum qualifications for this role include:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent business degree
• 2-5+ years of relevant industry or public accounting experience

Preferred qualifications for this role include:

• CPA license or actively working towards obtaining license
• Understanding of U.S. GAAP and SEC disclosure and reporting requirements
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
• Experience with SEC reporting software a plus (e.g. Workiva)

Within 1 month, you'll plant your roots, including:

• Experiencing Sprout's in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders, to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers
• Making a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, aligning on expectations for your role, planting goalposts for your career, and learning about Sprout's approach to scaling key business operations to support a high-growth NASDAQ publicly traded company

Within 3 months, you'll start hitting your stride by:

• Being proficient in using Sprout's accounting system (Net Suite) in order to retrieve data needed to prepare financial reporting
• Becoming proficient in Workiva in order to prepare the required external filings, such as the 10-Q and 10-K.
• Obtaining a broad understanding of Sprout's financial reporting process and timelines
• Preparing financial statements, footnotes and other disclosures for Sprout's external filings
• Building connections with business partners and finance teammates

Within 6 months, you'll be making a clear impact through:

• Taking on additional responsibility over the financial reporting process, including interfacing with the external auditors and preparing the quarterly close and reporting calendar
• Work with key business partners, such as legal and investor relations, on filings and disclosure updates
• Research and remain up-to-date on current accounting pronouncements that could affect the company and work with the team to ensure new items are incorporated correctly.
• Having your first performance conversation with your manager, where you'll discuss your accomplishments in your role and work together to…