Accounting Director

About Us: Daily Pay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on demand pay solution, Daily Pay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.

Daily Pay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, Daily Pay's Press Center.

We are looking for a Director of Accounting who is a true self-starter — someone who thrives with ownership, operates with a high degree of independence, and brings an empathy-first approach to leading high-performing teams. This leader will be comfortable acting with velocity in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where ambiguity is the norm and adaptability is a strength.

Reporting to the Assistant Controller, this role will partner closely with an existing Director of Accounting to divide and jointly own the Corporate Accounting function, with each director maintaining clear ownership over distinct areas of the close, reconciliation, and “decision-support” responsibilities. Further, this role will collaborate with our separate Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting team to ensure that the Company’s “record to report process” runs smoothly and efficiently, and that all material accounting areas are fairly stated and disclosed.

The Director will directly lead a team of accounting professionals — including a Manager and multiple Senior Accountants — and will work across the broader organization, up to and including senior management.

This is a rare opportunity for a dynamic, people-centric leader who wants broad responsibility and wants to make a meaningful difference — not just in the numbers, but in the people around them.

This role will be based in our HQ‑NY Office. If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.

I. Accounting Operations & Process Improvement

• Lead, mentor, and champion your accounting team — including a Manager and multiple Senior Accountants — with an empathy-first management philosophy that recognizes people as the engine of performance

• Own a defined set of corporate accounting operations in close partnership with the co-Director of Accounting, with each director maintaining clear accountability over distinct areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycle

• Manage accounting responsibilities across a portfolio of approximately 12 subsidiaries, including intercompany eliminations, multi-currency translations, and ensuring consistent close processes and account reconciliations across all entities

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, with a bias toward action and a willingness to make decisions under ambiguous conditions

• Implement AI-driven automation across the function using Claude (including Cowork and Code), including skill building, artifact creation, and agent deployment

• Ensure the integrity of the general ledger across owned entities, partnering with the broader accounting team and IT on system configurations, chart of accounts maintenance, and master data governance in Net Suite

• Design and implement robust internal controls over financial reporting (SOX compliance), proactively identifying gaps and driving corrective actions with urgency

II. Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting

• Take ownership of complex accounting areas including revenue recognition (ASC 606), leases (ASC 842), stock-based compensation, consolidations, foreign currency translations, and business combinations

• Lead the consolidation process across all domestic and international subsidiaries, ensuring intercompany eliminations and minority interest calculations are performed accurately

• Develop and maintain comprehensive accounting policies and procedures that are well-documented, clearly communicated, and consistently applied — even…