(Remote Work) Senior Accountant – DuckDuckGo

Duckduckgo 

Company Website: https://duckduckgo.com/
Remote Locations: Worldwide
Job Type: Full Time

Job Overview:

We are a diverse and fully-distributed team from around the world, working toward our shared vision to raise the standard of trust online. Join us as a remote Senior Accountant, and help make sure the employees of DuckDuckGo keep getting paid on time. As part of our growing team, you will collaborate with team members at all levels to support our back-office finance functions and build out the Finance team processes. Examples of projects you might work on include: managing our bill pay process, managing payroll and financial statement preparation.

We are fully-remote and seek to empower our team to be self-directed and self-motivated in their projects. If that seems awesome and you like the idea of our core values – build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction – you’ll fit right in!

Instead, we follow our own professional levels, with expectations for each level clearly defined across several dimensions.We are a small, remote team distributed across time zones, and we rely on a variety of communication tools throughout the day. You should feel comfortable with the intricacies of this type of work situation.Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each ~4-5 days).We believe in a focused approach to collaboration, where individual team members work on a single top priority at a time, each supporting larger, company-wide objectives. This philosophy serves to impact our vision to raise the standard of trust online.Our work philosophy centers on empowered project management.

All team members have opportunities to run projects.Transparency supports individual and team success at DuckDuckGo. We encourage everyone to participate in areas of interest throughout the company. Anyone and everyone can (and should) ask questions and offer feedback about our products and internal projects.We strive to exemplify our values (build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction) in everything we do.While this is a full-time job, we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expecting an average commitment of 40 hours per week.We support professional development of our team members through career advisory and a learning stipend, reinforcing our culture of growth and skill-building. DuckDuckGo does not work with any recruiting agencies or services.

Instead, we work with each candidate one-on-one throughout a unique hiring process that we’ve built to reflect our company culture. DuckDuckGo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high-impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.Share ownership in the monthly close process and prepare consolidated financial statements with a foreign exchange translation component.Share ownership in the monthly vendor payment process.Share ownership in the bi-monthly internal payroll process.Be the first line of defense for all accounting questions from employees and external parties.Other ad hoc accounting-related reporting needs.Coordinate with our external accountants for the annual audit and tax preparation.

Job Requirements:

What we are looking for:5+ years of experience in the field of accountingWilling to work in North American Time Zones to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholdersExperience preparing US GAAP financial statementsExperience processing payroll and accounts payableEffective project management skillsStrong communication skills; you can validate and communicate your decisions clearlyStrong attention to detailGrowth mindset that responds well to feedbackPunctualityIn addition to the two annual meetups referenced below, you will be expected to travel to HQ once a year for approximately one week to assist with the financial statement audit. Other things to know:While we leverage specific job titles for hiring purposes, we do not use them internally.

Benefits:

• Flexible work schedule
• • Company-wide hack days
• • Family leave policy
• • Co-working reimbursement
• • Company and team meetups
• • Flexible vacation and sick leave practices.
• • Diverse team with variety of work and educational experiences
• • Open participation in company strategy
• • US Health Benefits
• • Wellness and learning benefits
• • Charitable contribution matching
• • “Use good judgment” approach to company policies

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