Senior Accountant – AI-Native

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. Own the full accounting function for a fast-scaling premium food brand sold through major retail, natural channel, and direct-to-consumer distribution .

Posted 9/26/2026full-timeRemote • Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, PhilippinesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the full accounting function for a fast-scaling premium food brand sold through major retail, natural channel, and direct-to-consumer distribution
Bring day-to-day accounting in house from an outside firm
Run monthly, quarterly, and annual close on a proactive calendar
Own AP, AR, bank and credit card reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and intercompany entries
Maintain reconciled balance sheets and timely income statements with actionable variance commentary
Reconcile finished goods, raw materials, and packaging inventory across multiple locations and channels
Track inventory from purchase through production, warehousing, and sale
Investigate and resolve discrepancies between the ledger, warehouse records, and third-party systems
Build inventory reporting for stock levels, valuation, and COGS visibility
Apply US GAAP revenue recognition for CPG/FMCG, including gross-to-net, trade spend, slotting, promotions, and returns
Maintain audit-ready and lender-ready books; own audit preparation and support auditors and tax preparers
Manage retail and distributor deductions and chargebacks, including shortages, MCBs, spoilage, and freight
Validate, dispute, file, track, and recover deductions; contact customers and distributors regarding AR, collections, and disputes
Analyze margin, COGS, vendor spend, and freight to identify savings opportunities
Manage cash reporting, AR aging, vendor terms, forecasting inputs, and line-of-credit inputs
Own sales tax, 1099s, internal controls, and diligence readiness
Build and maintain live dashboards for close status, AR aging, inventory, deductions and recovery, cash, and margin
Own the cloud finance stack, including Xero and Airtable
Connect and automate ledger, banking, Airtable, deduction management, OCR, and settlement tools
Use Claude daily for reconciliation, categorization, dispute packages, analysis, and documented processes while checking its work

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field
At least 5 years of full-cycle accounting, including running a monthly close and preparing financial statements
CPG inventory reconciliation experience, including understanding inventory movement through a food or consumer goods brand and reconciliation across locations and channels
Proven ability to build dashboards providing live visibility into financial and operational performance
Strong Claude AI proficiency and daily use with output verification
Working command of US GAAP with experience supporting US-based companies
Comfortable owning and running Xero and Airtable
Exposure to trade spend, deductions, and distributor or retailer chargeback disputes
Excellent written and spoken English with proactive communication across time zones
CPG, FMCG, food and beverage, or consumer goods experience strongly preferred
CPA or local equivalent nice to have
Experience with natural channel distributors such as UNFI or KeHE nice to have
Background supporting a high-growth or venture-backed consumer brand nice to have
Prior experience bringing accounting in house from an outside firm nice to have
Experience building automated accounting workflows, including OCR, settlement reconciliation, or deduction management tooling, nice to have
Updated resume required
Short 1–2 minute Loom video required; candidates without one will not proceed

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid in USD, bi-monthly (every 15th and 30th)
Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
Holidays observed per company guidelines
100% remote setup
Availability during US business hours
Real room to grow as the company scales, up to running the whole system independently