Senior GL Accountant

Five9 is a leading provider of cloud software for the enterprise contact center market, bringing the power of the cloud to thousands of customers and facilitating more than three billion customer interactions annually. Since 2001, Five9 has led the cloud revolution in contact centers, helping organizations transition from legacy premise-based solutions to the cloud. Five9 provides businesses with cloud contact center software that is reliable, secure, compliant, and scalable, which is designed to create exceptional customer experiences, increase agent productivity, and deliver tangible business results. 

To complement our rapid growth, we are seeking a GL Accountant to join our US Accounting team.  This position will be hybrid.  The person in this role should be a strong communicator who is able to work effectively with peers and management alike in a high-paced environment. The ideal candidate is someone who experience in preparing journal entries, reconciling financial statements and accounts, and ensuring data accuracy. Successful candidates will have attention to detail, strong technical accounting experience and can respond quickly, energetically, and enthusiastically. This position reports to the Manager, GL Accounting. 

• Responsible for certain month-end close, reconciliation and reporting procedures.
• Perform the day-to day accounting processes and procedures relating to, but not limited to fixed assets, prepaids, payroll, and certain accruals.
• Perform tasks associated with the general ledger, (i.e., enters monthly journal entries).
• Perform monthly reconciliations and account analysis for designated balance sheet accounts and certain operating accounts.
• Review daily bank activities and assist the GL team with bank reconciliations.
• Assist on quarterly reviews and year-end audit procedures with external auditors.
• Assist with SOX controls and facilitate PBCs for external and internal auditors.
• Assist with technical accounting, as needed.
• Perform additional tasks as requested.
• Interfaces with other departments to determine the monthly accruals and other monthly journal entries, especially relating to closing activities.  Communicate with the employee population regarding relevant accounting issues. 
• Review and prepare international month close packages for foreign subsidiaries.
• Identify opportunities and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and quality continuously.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting or Finance. 
• 5 years of Accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of accounting operations and close procedures.
• NetSuite experience is highly desirable.
• Highly detail oriented and organized in work.
• Ability to meet assigned deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer service focus.
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives.
• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and external agencies to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving and results.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, advanced Excel a plus (V-lookups, pivot tables, etc.)
• Public accounting experience desirable.
• Amenable to work in US time or night shift schedule.