Staff Accountant

Expel

Staff Accountant at Expel ensuring accurate financial reporting and optimized accounting processes in a remote role. Collaborating with a motivated team and utilizing modern finance tools.

Posted 6/26/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $65,000 - $90,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure accuracy of our monthly close process and support timely and reliable reporting
Continue maturing our accounting practices to maintain accuracy and quality while increasing scale
Partner closely with internal business partners to develop creative solutions to business challenges and transaction workflows (related to your financial statement areas) through process optimization and standardization
Operate a subset of the suite of Finance systems and applications (Navan, Expensify, Workday, etc.) with an eye towards optimizing tools, processes, and procedures; including the seamless onboarding and offboarding of users in finance applications
Assist in areas of the general ledger including payroll, accruals and debt accounting
Assist the finance team with larger projects such as annual audits
Process and reconcile payroll-related journal entries in the GL, ensuring payroll expenses, tax withholdings, and benefit deductions are recorded accurately and on time
Balance the non-standard stuff that surprises you and strive to get ahead of it
Make constant money-related puns and, of course, “Mind the GAAP”.

Requirements

What you’ll need

1-3 years of experience in GAAP or Tax accounting
A degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent
CPA or CPA eligible preferred
Public accounting or SaaS experience required
Advanced skill with Google Sheets and/or Excel (data manipulation, charts, formulas, pivots, group/outline, etc)
Experience or familiarity with modern tools like Sage Intacct or Netsuite, Workday, Airbase, FloQast, Navan and Expensify
A strong service mentality to drive internal customer joy
The ability to translate accounting jargon into accessible concepts for all audiences
A desire to be on the hunt for new ways to improve both yourself and the company.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited PTO
Excellent health benefits
Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
Work location flexibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

GAAPTax accountingPayroll accountingAccrualsDebt accountingData manipulationChartsFormulasPivotsGroup/outline

Soft Skills

Service mentalityCreative problem solvingProcess optimizationCommunicationAdaptabilityCustomer serviceAttention to detailCollaborationContinuous improvementTranslating jargon

Certifications

CPACPA eligible