Senior Accountant

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Zola is seeking a high-caliber Senior Accountant to join our finance team. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, possesses a sharp technical eye for GAAP compliance, and is motivated by the opportunity to scale accounting operations.

BACKGROUND

• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience; a mix of public accounting and in-house experience strongly preferred.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license (active or in-progress).
• Strong foundational knowledge of U.S. GAAP and proficiency with ERP systems.
• “Builder” Mentality: Find ways to make a process or accounting area better, faster and more accurate.
• Advanced Excel skills required. Experience leveraging AI/automation tools a plus.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain accounting treatments to non-finance stakeholders.
• Obsessive attention to detail and highest level of integrity

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Month-End Close: Prepare and post journal entries for key accounting areas including those areas which involve management estimation. Full ownership of balance sheet accounts.
• Variance analysis: Prepare substantiated variance analysis vs. budget and prior year. Translate accounting results into narratives that non-finance stakeholders.
• Audit and Compliance: Serve as a key point of contact for external auditors; prepare audit workpapers, manage request lists, and ensure a seamless year-end audit process.
• Process Enhancement: Proactively identify "bottlenecks" in the accounting cycle and implement automation, AI tools or workflow improvements to increase efficiency. Draft and maintain comprehensive formal process documentation; assist in the design and implementation of internal controls
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams to ensure accounting workflows reflect the current state of the business

The salary range for this role is $90,000 - $100,000. This full-time role will be hybrid at our office in NYC (Tuesdays & Thursdays).

ABOUT ZOLA

We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples' lives even happier. From engagement to wedding and decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology… all in the service of love.

We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, and quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online and mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, and simply magical. We're proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.

We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, and we're proud of our thriving community of over 2 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, and we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion and perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, and partner will be respected and accepted and valued.

Our headquarters is in NYC. Come work with us!