Director, Accounting

Location: New York

About Wonder Everything’s on the menu ept compromise.

Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot.

Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency n us as we work to make great food more accessible.

About The Opportunity The Director of Accounting serves as a key financial leader, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of the financial statements for their respective business areas. This role oversees complex month-end close processes, maintains a rigorous control environment, and acts as a strategic partner to finance and business leaders.

The Impact You Will Make Leadership and Corporate Close Management:

Lead and optimize the monthly, quarterly, and year-end corporate financial close for assigned business units, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting under US GAAP.Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing corporate accounting team, fostering professional growth and operational excellence.

Process & Controls:

Strengthen Internal Controls:
Own, maintain, and strengthen the SOX-compliant internal control environment over corporate accounting and related financial reporting workflows.

Engineering & Product Advisory:
Partner proactively with Engineering and Product teams during the design phase of new products and platform features to establish clear, scalable accounting and data requirements.

Payroll Accounting and Automation:

Oversee consolidated payroll accounting operations, ensuring precise booking of labor expenses, tax accruals, benefits, and equity-based compensation.

Drive strategic efficiency projects, particularly automation between HRIS/payroll platforms (e.g., Workday) and the ERP system and automating payroll allocations int the ERP system.

Software, SaaS, & Capitalization (ASC 350-40):

Oversee the financial lifecycle of the company’s technology stack, managing accounting for corporate SaaS subscriptions, prepayments, and complex vendor contracts.

Review the tracking and compliance for internal-use software capitalization (ASC 350-40), partnering with Engineering and Product teams to accurately capture development hours.

Professional Services and Vendor Spend:

Govern accounting for professional services spend, including legal, consulting, recruiting, and advisory fees.

Partner with key stakeholders to define and implement strict controls around Statements of Work, milestones, and trailing vendor invoices, ensuring precise, data-driven accruals and preventing margin leakage.

Drive strategic efficiency initiatives, specifically automating vendor accruals by leveraging direct reporting and data integrations from procurement platforms.

Intercompany & Multi-Entity Consolidation:

Own the end-to-end intercompany accounting process, including transfer pricing execution, and cross-entity billing,Enforce rigorous intercompany elimination policies to guarantee seamless monthly consolidations across multiple operating subsidiaries and legal entities.

What You Bring to the Table Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.

CPA certification required.
10+ years of progressive accounting experience with 4+ years in leadership.

Experience in high-growth environments, corporate integration, or public accounting is highly valued.

Deep understanding of US GAAP, corporate consolidations, and SOXStrong grasp of payroll mechanics, vendor accruals, and capitalized software guidelines

High level of competency dealing with large data sets, query tools, and automation software.

Hands-on experience with ERP systems (e.g., Net Suite), close management software (e.g., Flo Qast), procurement platforms (e.g., ZIP) and forecast and reporting software (e.g., Anaplan).Familiarity with automated data…