Senior Accountant

We are a lean, nimble, and highly adaptive team that works seamlessly and transparently with our Brands in order for them to take the spotlight.

We focus our efforts and talents to drive best practices, capture new opportunities, and accelerate performance across our portfolio of brands.

Joining the a.k.a. Brands team means rolling up your sleeves, digging into challenges, creating and implementing new strategies, and not being limited to the confines of a job title or job description.

We all play on the same team and value the insights and contributions that every member of our team makes daily.

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our dynamic team. In this critical role, you will oversee our financial operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance in our accounting practices.

This role will repo rt to Senior Accounting Manager, Consolidations, a .k.a. Brands is looking for an experienced Senior Accountant, who is excited about driving and effectively scaling a.k.a. Brands to the next level. You will work closely with the Finance & Accounting team to ensure the integrity of our accounting operations.

This role requires strategic and critical thinking, and effective communication. The ideal candidate will be a personable, team-first leader, skilled at working collaboratively with stakeholders across departments, regions, and business units.

This role requires someone with experience being a key member of the financial close process, impeccable attention to detail, a financial and analytical mindset, and a strong desire to improve processes and controls.

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including consolidation in Planful, foreign currency remeasurement and translation, intercompany eliminations, and preparation of consolidated financial statements.
• Extract, map, and reconcile trial balances between source ledgers (Net Suite) and the consolidation tool (Planful), and prepare and validate support for system uploads to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of source data.
• Maintain detailed supporting schedules and work papers for the consolidation and quarterly reporting package.

• Manage intercompany transactions across the global entities, covering both short-term intercompany balances and long-term intercompany balances
• Perform quarterly three-way matching and netting of intercompany balances across entities, confirming that reciprocal intercompany payables and receivables agree and settling or offsetting balances as part of the intercompany netting process.
• Monitor intercompany account balances on an ongoing basis and prepare intercompany reconciliations, ensuring general ledger and intercompany accounts are reconciled with documented resolution of reconciling items and proper elimination upon consolidation.
• Manage foreign currency remeasurement and translation adjustments for global entities operating in multiple currencies, including recording and reviewing cumulative translation adjustments (CTA).
• Maintain foreign exchange (FX) rate tables and update them monthly to ensure accurate remeasurement, translation, and financial reporting.

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, including the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement
• Own the preparation of the consolidated statement of cash flows on a monthly basis, including analysis of operating, investing, and financing activities and reconciliation to movements in the balance sheet and income statement.
• Assist with the holding company balance sheet and income statement — review balances during month-end close, prepare balance sheet account reconciliations, and perform variance analysis.
• Prepare debt covenant calculations and quarterly fluctuation analysis for lenders and management.

• Serve as a key liaison for internal and external auditors, providing supporting schedules and documentation for assigned areas.
• Maintain process documentation, ensure SOX compliance across functional areas of responsibility, and help develop and implement…