Lead International Accountant

Description

Sprout Social is looking to hire a Lead International Accountant for the Finance team.

Why join Sprout’s Finance team?

As a member of Sprout’s finance team, you’ll help better position Sprout for future growth while maintaining compliance and integrity at the highest level. No matter your role, everyone on the team has the opportunity to be a part of creating best-in-class processes and practices that can scale with the organization. Our team is unique because we value transparency and direct ownership of responsibilities - meaning, you’ll always have our trust to help contribute to our overall goals and success as a department and organization.

What you’ll do

Sprout Social’s Finance team isn’t your typical month-end close type of department. We’re building out financial systems to support every business production, so our Lead Accountant gets a granular view and understanding of how a business scales from the ground up. Although we might live in spreadsheets and provide financial information to the business, that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The knowledge to gain is vast, as is the potential of our organization to continue growing. Doing our jobs effectively means we approach each interaction with confidence, each process with diligence, and our customers with care.

• You will own the overall international accounting processes, including compliance. This includes providing advanced expertise and ensuring the accurate and timely completion of financial statements for our 7 international subsidiaries
• You will work closely with tax, payroll, legal, and other accounting teams to ensure we meet all of our deadlines and obligations. You will function as a project manager in cases when there is a need for these various teams to collaborate on compliance deliverables. 
• You will oversee five international audits from beginning to end, working in conjunction with our third-party partners
• You will own the relationship with our third party services providers who assist with local filings and compliance.
• You will drive process improvements to ensure we are operating efficiently and create new processes to accommodate our always-changing and quickly growing business.
• You will review the work of other team members and provide coaching and feedback as needed
• You will be the go-to person for international accounting and tangent processes. 

What you’ll bring

Since this role is about raising the bar, we’re looking for someone with experience in Finance/Accounting within a high-growth technical company (tools, best