Lead accounting operations including month-end close, oversee accounts payable, manage tax compliance, provide financial reporting, and support audits.
Appcues is on a mission to become the market leader in customer experience for technology companies. Our platform enables teams to design and deliver personalized in-app experiences that drive product adoption, engagement, and retention — without relying on engineering. We help companies turn their user experience into a growth engine.
We’re looking for an Accounting Manager to lead our accounting operations and ensure accurate, compliant, and scalable financial processes as the business grows. This role reports to the VP of Finance & Operations and plays a key role in enabling execution speed, cross-functional partnership, and financial integrity at scale.
What You'll Do
- Lead all accounting month-end close activities, ensuring timely, accurate, and GAAP-compliant financial reporting.
- Oversee accounts payable operations, including administration and optimization of the accounts payable system.
- Provide oversight and partnership across customer billing and accounts receivable in close collaboration with the Billing Operations Specialist.
- Manage state registrations and related compliance requirements.
- Manage sales and use tax compliance and filings.
- Own annual 1099 filings.
- Partner with an external CPA firm to support tax filings and related requests.
- Manage company payroll in partnership with People Ops
- Lead preparation and coordination for the year-end financial audit, in partnership with the VP of Finance & Operations
About You
- You have 5+ years of accounting experience, ideally in a SaaS or tech environment.
- You’re proficient in NetSuite (required) and confident managing core accounting systems.
- You have experience with multi-state sales tax.
- You understand GAAP and revenue recognition (ASC 606) and have applied it in past roles.
- You’re detail-oriented, self-sufficient, and comfortable running with projects from start to finish.
- You care about scalable systems and are always looking to improve processes.
- You enjoy cross-functional collaboration and have experience working with external vendors or auditors
Note - Appcues uses a market-data driven approach to setting compensation ranges, and pins compensation ranges to data provided by third-party organizations. This range is for all US-based candidates and is built to be competitive nationwide by utilizing ranges for the Greater Boston area, regardless of where in the US an employee lives (or later relocates). This range represents salary-based compensation and does not include our equity package (in stock options), 401k match, or other benefits including an office setup budget, tech budget, training and education budget, and co-working space reimbursements. Actual compensation offered to a successful applicant may be based on job-related experience and other factors consistent with applicable law. For non-US based candidates, Appcues adjusts salary ranges based on cost of labor in each market. If you have questions on the pay range in your country, the recruiter will be happy to discuss specifics during your introductory conversation."
Our Benefits
100% remote - We don’t have an office so all of our employees learn and collaborate in the same way using remote work practices. We work in Slack, Zoom, and a collection of modern collaboration tools. We have inclusive remote events and we get together annually for a fun off-site retreat.
Well-being - You'll have solid health, dental, and vision plans; access to 401k (with a match), and a generous parental leave.
Home office and tech budget - Besides paying for your work computer (Mac or PC), we offer a one-time $1000 home office stipend and an additional $500 annual budget for extra work-related technology.
Coworking space, on us - Home office not cutting it? We'll reimburse your monthly co-working fees.
Equity - We want everyone invested in our success. We grant every employee equity in the company.
Transparency and collaboration - We foster team alignment with meetings of all shapes and sizes—a twice a month all-hands meeting called Allcues, a weekly newsletter and an annual learning stipend.
Flexible Time Off - We believe time away to reflect and explore makes us all more productive, so employees don’t accrue vacation time – they work with their managers to schedule time off when they need it, consistent with our Flexible Time Off policy. Employees based in the USA also take off all US federal holidays. Employees residing in other countries can choose to follow their local national holidays or US federal holidays.
Top Skills
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