Senior Accountant

Who we are Hi there 👋 We’re Ethena, compliance training that customizes itself to you. Ethena combines top-rated training content with intelligent AI that builds and adapts training to reflect your company’s unique brand, roles, policies, and risks, so it feels like your team, whether that’s hard hats or virtual meetings. From auto-assigning courses based on HRIS data to transforming your policies into interactive training in minutes, Ethena helps People, Legal, and Compliance teams launch in days (not months) and cut learner seat time by up to 60% with adaptive learning paths. Ethena supports 1M+ learners across 2,000+ organizations, with a 93% learner approval rating and 96% customer renewal rate. Over the past several years, we’ve delivered consistent, durable growth, including 120%+ net dollar retention, 95%+ gross dollar retention, and strong enterprise expansion across industries. Ethena has become a go-to compliance partner for modern, global organizations.   Beyond training, Ethena unifies core compliance tools, Hotline & Case Management, Policy Bot, and Phishing Simulator, into a single platform, with built-in audit trails and compliance controls teams can trust.   Trusted by teams at companies like Genesco, Asana, Pinterest, and Synaptics, it’s a great time to join us.   How we work We’re a team that values diversity in all its forms and loves adding new perspectives. We ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions, and build with empathy, for customers and for each other. We care about craft, we love feedback, and we take ownership. We also embrace humor (yes, the puns are real), because doing serious work doesn’t have to feel so serious.   Our workforce is fully remote, and your personal working hours can be based on your own timezone. All team-wide meetings are scheduled to be inclusive of all North American time zones.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a Senior Accountant who is an autonomous powerhouse. Ethena is an AI platform for Compliance, and we’re looking for someone to bring that same "faster and smarter" energy to our Finance team.

This isn't a role for someone who wants to come in and build a 50-page policy manual or implement "big company" bells and whistles. We need someone scrappy who has a solid foundation in accounting, loves the puzzle of SaaS revenue, and is excited to own our end-to-end close. You’ll report to our VP of Finance and Operations as our in-house technical accounting exoert—leveling up our overall finance motion through mentorship (and potential direct management) while ensuring our audit and external firm partnerships run like a well-oiled machine.

What you’ll do

• Own the Close: Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close. You’ll produce consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP and ensure our books (currently in QuickBooks Online) are audit-ready at all times.

• Master SaaS Complexity: Manage the order-to-cash process. This means getting into the weeds of customer contracts, invoicing, and the nuances of revenue recognition.

• Manage Operational Cycles: Take full ownership of our day-to-day financial operations, including the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process and vendor management.

• Automate Everything: We’re an AI company—we expect our internal processes to reflect that. You’ll find creative ways to use AI and automation tools to make our financial operations faster and more accurate.

• Build "Right-Sized" Structure: You’ll help evaluate and deploy the systems we need to scale (i.e., QuickBooks Online today and potentially leading a future ERP implementation), but you’ll do it with a startup mindset—focusing on what moves the needle for Ethena right now, not what a Fortune 500 company would do.

• Collaborate & Mentor: While you’re a high-autonomy individual contributor, you’ll also coach one accounting team member and partner cross-functionally (especially with Sales) to keep our revenue data clean.

What makes a great candidate

• Startup Seasoned: You have a few years of experience in a high-growth tech environment (SaaS experience is a major plus). You know how a startup accounting function should be set up, and you don’t need a playbook handed to you—you’re here to write it.

• Technically Grounded: You have a solid grasp of US GAAP and have been through the audit process. You don’t need hands-on technical training; you’re the one people come to with quest