Senior Accountant

Job Description

About the Team:

The Accounting team at Netlify is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of our financial reporting in accordance with GAAP. We lead the month-end close process, maintain audit readiness, uphold strong internal controls, and partner cross-functionally to provide financial clarity across the business.

As Netlify continues to grow, this role exists to strengthen our close operations and expand our capacity to handle both recurring accounting processes and strategic ad hoc initiatives. Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Accountant will play a key role in owning critical areas of the month-end close, ensuring compliance, and contributing to process improvements that support scale across a multi-entity business.

What You’ll Do:

• Own key components of the month-end close process, including prepaids, fixed assets, bank reconciliations, lease schedules, accruals, intercompany eliminations, and various other balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring compliance with GAAP
• Build, iterate on, and maintain reliable reconciliation, reporting, and close documentation processes
• Prepare journal entries with clear supporting documentation and a strong understanding of underlying accounting principles
• Manage intercompany transactions and eliminations to ensure accurate consolidated financial reporting
• Perform detailed balance sheet account analyses, identifying discrepancies and proactively resolving issues
• Partner closely with the Controller to manage close timelines, address technical accounting questions, and support audit readiness
• Collaborate with our AP consultant on payables-related workflows and reconciliations
• Work cross-functionally with the Revenue, Billing, and FP&A teams to answer accounting questions, investigate variances, and ensure financial alignment
• Assist with payroll operations and related accounting, including bonus and commission accruals
• Support ad hoc accounting projects, process improvements, and system enhancements as the company scales
• Leverage systems, automation, and emerging technologies, including AI, to streamline workflows and strengthen controls

What You’ll Bring:

• 3+ years of accounting experience, ideally within a SaaS or high-growth technology environment
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and its application in a corporate accounting environment
• Experience managing multiple areas of the month-end close process with increasing ownership
• Hands-on experience with balance sheet reconciliations and analysis
• Solid understanding of the “why” behind journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting treatment
• Comfort supporting payroll accounting processes
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with large sets of financial data
• Systems-savvy with the ability to learn new tools quickly, and curiosity about how AI and automation can improve accounting workflows
• A breadth of exposure across various accounting functions, or strong foundational knowledge, with the ability to ramp quickly in new areas
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

This Role is a Great Fit If:

• You’re energized by owning core accounting processes and ensuring they are accurate and GAAP-compliant
• You’re comfortable rolling up your sleeves to investigate and resolve accounting questions independently
• You enjoy understanding the technical reasoning behind accounting treatment, not just completing tasks
• You thrive in a collaborative environment where you partner closely with Finance and cross-functional stakeholders
• You have a hunger for learning and are excited to expand your accounting breadth
• You’re confident working in Excel and enjoy using systems to drive efficiency
• You’re curious about emerging technologies, including AI, and how they can improve accounting operations

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying please include:

A resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). We appreciate a cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better, though this is not required and will not impact your application. Our mission is to “build a better web” and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds and thoughts.

Of everything we’ve ever built at Netlify, we are most proud of our team. Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please let us know by emailing [email protected].

About Netlify

Netlify is the most popular way to build, deploy, and scale modern web applications, empowering everyone from fast moving solo developers to enterprise teams. Millions of developers and organizations rely on Netlify as their platform of choice for composing web applications that are production ready, performant, and flexible. Now, as we embrace the next era of software development, we are embedding the same fluid, intuitive experience into the Agent Experience (AX), making it just as simple for intelligent agents to understand, interact with, and act on our platform as it is for developers. Whether your user is human or machine, Netlify ensures the path from idea to URL is seamless, fast, and deeply reliable.

We are a Series D company that has raised over $200M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, EQT, Bessemer, BOND, and Menlo Ventures. As a fully distributed company, we aim to create a company culture where the best idea can come from anywhere and strive to be thoughtful, compassionate, and collaborative in our work. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’re excited to connect with you!

At Netlify, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that prioritizes fairness and equity, positions our employee compensation competitively in the market, recognizes and rewards performance, and takes a comprehensive approach to our rewards package. We anchor our compensation philosophy on a market-based approach, therefore salary ranges may differ depending on the labor cost in a particular location. The salary provided is in addition to robust benefits and participation in Netlify’s equity plan. Our hiring range for this role is targeted at $78,000 - $110,000 for most US-based locations and $80,000 - $109,000 CAD. Candidates outside the US or Canada, or in premium markets, should consult with their Talent Acquisition partner regarding location-based ranges, as they may be higher or lower than the average range listed. The starting pay will be determined based on multiple factors, including expertise and skills, market demands, experience, internal equity, and applicable geographic location. These compensation packages and ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future.