Senior Accountant

<span>Sword Health is on a mission to free two billion people from pain. </span><br/><span>With 67% of members achieving a pain-free life and a 70% reduction in surgery intent, at Sword, we are using AI Care to change lives, and save millions for our 25,000+ enterprise clients across three continents. Today, we hold the majority of industry patents, win 70% of competitive evaluations, and have raised more than $300 million from top venture firms like Founders Fund, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures.</span><br/><span>Recognized as a </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/companies/sword-health/?list=americas-best-startup-employers&amp;sh=3f6063de752e">Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2025</a><span>, this award highlights our focus on being a destination for the best and brightest  talent. Not only have we experienced unprecedented growth since our market debut in 2020,  but we’ve also created a remarkable mission and value-driven environment that is loved by our growing team. With a recent valuation of $3 billion, we are in a phase of hyper growth and expansion, and we’re looking for individuals with passion, commitment, and energy to help us scale our global impact. </span><br/><span>Joining Sword means committing to a set of core values, chief amongst them to “do it for the patients” every day, and to always “deliver more than expected” on behalf of our members and clients.</span><br/><span>This is an opportunity for you to make a significant difference on a massive scale as you work alongside 900+ (and growing!) talented colleagues, spanning three continents. Your charge? To help us build a pain-free world, powered by AI, enhanced by people — accessible to all.</span><br/><br/><span>We are searching for a Senior Accountant for our Porto Office preferably with experience in a fast growth environment. Our goal is to build the best Finance team in healthcare.</span> <h3>What you will be doing:</h3> <ul> <li>Ensure recording, monitoring and reporting general and technical accounting activity according to the Group Policies;</li><li>Support the month-end and year-end closing processes, including journal entries and account reconciliations;</li><li>Be familiar with core accounting sections including: leases, inter-company transactions, fixed assets, capitalized software;</li><li>Conduct detailed financial analysis to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement;</li><li>Perform timely reconciliations for key accounts on a monthly basis;</li><li>Provide administrative support to the finance and accounting team, such as filing, organizing documents, and responding to inquiries;</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and achieve organizational objectives;</li><li>Plays an integral role in the development, implementation and maintenance of the financial accounting systems;</li><li>Provides their team with meaningful, accurate and timely financial information and reports as requested;</li><li>Participate in the interim and annual audits for the Group;</li><li>Stay current on accounting principles, standards, and regulations, ensuring compliance with evolving requirements;</li><li>Perform other accounting and controller duties and support junior staff as required or assigned.</li></ul> <h3>What you need to have:</h3> <ul> <li>University degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or any related field;</li><li>Experience with month-end/year end close processes in complex multi-national and multi-currency frameworks;</li><li>Comfort with Finance and Accounting principles (local GAAP, US/IFRS will be a plus) and good financial statement analysis ability;</li><li>Excellent excel skills and used to work with a complex ERP (NetSuite a plus);</li><li>Independent handling of a variety of tasks with different levels of complexity and organizing work efficiently;</li><li>Good communication skills, able to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.</li><li>Endurance and flexibility, when facing problems;</li><li>Taking ownership of assigned responsibilities, including self-study/research needed to execute the same;</li><li>Very high attention to detail, organized and thorough with a desire for continuous improvement and improve pain-points;</li><li>Working experience +4 years;</li><li>Fluent in English (written and spoken);</li><li>Ability to work with little or no supervision;</li><li>Curious, enthusiastic, proactive, strong team player.</li></ul> <h3>To ensure you feel good solving a big Human problem, we offer:</h3> <ul> <li>A stimulating, fast-paced environment with lots of room for creativity;</li><li>A bright future at a promising high-tech startup company;</li><li>Career development and growth, with a competitive salary;</li><li>The opportunity to work with a talented team and to add real value to an innovative solution with the potential to change the future of healthcare;</li><li>A stimulating environment with ro