Senior Accountant

Job description

**About Iru** Iru is the AI-powered security & IT platform used by the world’s fastest-growing companies to secure their users, apps, and devices. Built for the AI era, Iru unifies identity & access, endpoint security & management, and compliance automation—collapsing the stack and giving IT & security time and control back. Iru is backed by some of the smartest investors in tech—General Catalyst, Tiger Global, Felicis, Greycroft, and First Round Capital. In July 2024, Iru raised $100 million from General Catalyst, valuing the company at $850 million. Customers include Cursor, Vercel, Lovable, Replit, and Mercor, and Iru partners with industry leaders such as ServiceNow and AWS. Iru was named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers 2025 list for employee engagement and satisfaction. ## **The Opportunity** We are looking for a Senior Accountant who combines strong accounting fundamentals with a builder mindset. This is a hands-on role for someone who can own core accounting work while also helping us build a more automated, scalable Finance function. You’ll play a key role in month-end close, multi-entity accounting, reconciliations, and financial reporting - but we’re equally interested in how you improve the way that work gets done. The ideal candidate is curious about technology and has experience implementing or improving accounting systems, automating manual workflows, and using AI and LLMs to make accounting processes faster, smarter, and more reliable. ### How You'll Make a Difference Day to Day ### **Accounting & Close** - Own key areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and variance analysis. - Take end-to-end ownership of assigned accounting areas, from understanding the underlying accounting and source data through close execution, reconciliation, and ongoing process improvement. - Support accounting across multiple U.S. and international entities, including intercompany transactions, eliminations, consolidations, and foreign currency. - Ensure accurate and consistent accounting in accordance with U.S. GAAP and company policies. - Support financial reporting, audit requests, and technical accounting matters as needed. - Partner across Finance, Payroll, People, Legal, and other teams to resolve accounting issues and improve upstream processes. ### **Build & Automate** - Identify manual, repetitive, and error-prone accounting processes, understand the underlying business and accounting requirements, and design more scalable solutions using automation, AI, and better systems. - Build automated account reconciliations that pull together data from multiple systems, identify exceptions, and reduce manual review. - Automate recurring journal entries, accrual calculations, prepaid schedules, and other components of the month-end close. - Build AI-assisted workflows to review transactions, investigate reconciliation differences, analyze variances, and summarize unusual activity for Accounting review. - Develop automated flux and variance analysis that identifies material movements and helps Accounting quickly understand what changed and why. ### **Accounting Transformation** - Play an active role in ERP implementations, system migrations, integrations, and other Finance transformation initiatives. - Create close dashboards and workflows that provide real-time visibility into close status, outstanding reconciliations, exceptions, and blockers. - Use LLMs to turn accounting policies, historical research, and company documentation into tools and data rooms that help the team research accounting questions and consistently apply company policies. - Develop self-service reporting and tools that reduce recurring manual requests to Accounting and give stakeholders better access to financial information. ### We’d love to hear from you if you have: - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. - 4+ years of progressive accounting experience with strong hands-on experience in month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting. - Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and experience operating in a fast-paced accounting environment. - Experience with multi-entity accounting, intercompany transactions, and consolidated financial reporting. - Hands-on experience implementing, migrating, integrating, or significantly improving an ERP or accounting system. - Advanced Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to work with large, complex datasets and connect information across multiple systems; experience with SQL, Python, APIs, or similar tools is a plus. - Demonstrated experience automating accounting or Finance workflows—you can point to processes you personally helped build or redesign. - Practical experience using AI or LLM tools to improve how you work, analyze information, or execute accounting processes. - A builder mentality: you don't just execute a process—you look for ways to make it simpler, faster, and more scalable. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to operate independently in an evolving environment. - CPA or CPA eligibility is a plus, but not required. ### What Will Make You Stand Out You’ve helped modernize an accounting function before. Maybe you implemented an ERP, automated reconciliations, built an AI-assisted workflow, eliminated a painful spreadsheet process, connected systems that previously didn't talk to each other, or helped materially shorten the month-end close. We care less about whether you've used a specific tool and more about whether you've demonstrated the curiosity and technical ability to build better ways of working.