Senior Accountant

About the Department   
  
The Finance team is an international group of financial professionals dedicated to supporting our global business, protecting company assets, and providing strategic analysis, budgeting, and reporting to support the company’s objectives. The team plays a critical role to ensure the company’s long-term financial health and sustainability by managing resources, optimizing financial performance, ensuring compliance with regulations, and providing strategic insights to support decision-making across international operations.  
  
The department is comprised of several teams, which include the below:  
  
  

Accounts Payable: Manages vendor payments and employee expense reporting, ensuring accuracy, contract compliance, and strong financial controls.   

Accounting & Financial Reporting: Maintains global financial records with precision, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, accuracy, and transparency in reporting.   

Financial Planning & Analysis: Provides strategic insights through budgeting, forecasting, and data analysis to drive informed decision-making.   
  
  

By joining the Finance team at Backroads, you’ll be part of a group that values building excellent and efficient processes and fostering a positive employee experience that rewards high performance with growth opportunities.  

About the Role  

As a Senior Accountant at Backroads, you will play a critical role in helping us oversee our international accounting, external international audit, compliance, and statutory reporting. You will work collaboratively across the organization, ensuring  compliance with multi-country regulations, managing cross-border transactions, and providing accurate, timely reporting for internal stakeholders and external authorities.    

What You’ll Be Doing:   

International Accounting, Month-End Close & Consolidation 

• Oversee month-end and year-end close for international legal entities, ensuring compliance with local GAAP and IFRS.  

• Maintain and reconcile monthly general ledgers for foreign subsidiaries. 

• Prepare or review account reconciliations prepared by foreign subsidiary staff and/or external service providers.  

• Oversee inter-company transactions, post and review journal entries, accruals, reclasses, and inter-company reconciliations, currency revaluation and translation adjustments. 

• Prepare and review monthly consolidated financial statements in compliance with U.S. GAAP. 

• Manage preparation and review of statutory financial statements across multiple countries.  

• Monitor and implement changes to international ac