<h2><strong>Role Summary</strong></h2> <p>As a <strong>Lead Accountant</strong> at inKind, you will play a critical role in strengthening the technical accounting, financial reporting, and accounting operations that support our continued growth.</p> <p>This is a senior individual contributor role designed for an experienced accountant who combines a strong <strong>public accounting / Big 4 foundation</strong> with the ability to operate hands-on in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will serve as a technical accounting resource across the Finance organization, helping evaluate complex transactions, establish accounting treatment and policies, strengthen controls, and ensure our financial reporting remains accurate, scalable, and GAAP compliant.</p> <p>You will work closely with the Controller and broader Finance team while partnering across Legal, Operations, Product, and other areas of the business. The ideal candidate can move comfortably between researching a complex accounting issue, preparing technical accounting documentation, reviewing financial statements, supporting an audit, and improving the underlying processes and systems that produce our financial information.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to bring the rigor and technical foundation of public accounting into a growing fintech and hospitality technology business where you can have significant ownership and impact.</p> <h2><strong>Who You Are</strong></h2> <ul> <li>You have a strong foundation in <strong>technical accounting and U.S. GAAP</strong>, ideally developed within a Big 4 or other leading public accounting firm.</li> <li>You enjoy solving complex accounting questions and can translate technical guidance into practical recommendations for the business.</li> <li>You are comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor and taking ownership of complex accounting matters from research through implementation.</li> <li>You combine technical rigor with commercial judgment and understand that accounting needs to support a rapidly evolving business.</li> <li>You are highly analytical, process-oriented, and exceptionally detail-focused.</li> <li>You are comfortable challenging existing processes and identifying opportunities to improve controls, reporting, systems, and automation.</li> <li>You can communicate complex accounting concepts clearly to both Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.</li> <li>You thrive in an environment where priorities evolve quickly and where you are expected to independently identify and solve problems.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Responsibilities / Essential Functions</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Serve as a key <strong>technical accounting resource</strong> for the Finance organization, researching and evaluating complex accounting matters under U.S. GAAP.</li> <li>Assess the accounting implications of <strong>new products, contracts, partnerships, financing arrangements, investments, acquisitions, and other complex or non-routine transactions</strong>.</li> <li>Prepare clear, well-supported <strong>technical accounting memoranda and position papers</strong>, documenting conclusions and recommendations for management and external auditors.</li> <li>Develop, maintain, and improve accounting policies and procedures as the organization and its products continue to scale.</li> <li>Support the preparation and review of timely and accurate financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and supporting schedules.</li> <li>Lead and review complex areas of the <strong>month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close</strong>, ensuring balances and transactions are appropriately recorded, supported, and reconciled.</li> <li>Review general ledger activity and account reconciliations, investigate unusual or complex transactions, and ensure appropriate accounting treatment.</li> <li>Partner with the Controller on complex accounting areas including <strong>revenue recognition, leases, equity and stock-based compensation, debt and financing arrangements, business combinations, consolidations, and other applicable accounting matters</strong>.</li> <li>Play a key role in external audits, including preparing supporting documentation, responding to technical accounting questions, coordinating audit requests, and resolving issues with external auditors.</li> <li>Strengthen the company's financial reporting environment through improved <strong>internal controls, documentation, reconciliation processes, and accounting procedures</strong>.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to improve and automate accounting workflows, reducing manual processes while increasing accuracy, consistency, and scalability.</li> <li>Partner with FP&A and other Finance team members to ensure consistency between accounting results, management reporting, forecasting, and financial analysis.</li> <li>Collaborate cross-functionally with Legal, Operations, Product, Technology, and other teams to understand new business initiatives and proactively identify their accounting implications.</li> <li>Provide technical accounting guidance and mentorship to other members of the Accounting and Finance team.</li> <li>Support tax filings, financial due diligence, financing activities, and other strategic Finance initiatives as required.</li> <li>Help build the accounting infrastructure, policies, and controls necessary to support inKind as the business continues to grow in scale and complexity.</li>