Senior staff accountant Job at Newsela, New York, NY

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  • Newsela
  • New York, NY

Job Description

The Role

As the Senior Staff Accountant you will play a key role within the accounting organization. Specifically, you will be a key contributor in Newsela’s month end close, financial reporting, internal controls and scaling accounting operations. You will be an integral contributor to Newsela’s accounting team, and will be a leader on the team driving process improvement to our month end close, financial statement preparation, and management reporting. You will have an immediate impact on the team by digging into our revenue, software capitalization, and financial reporting processes.

Why You’ll Love This Role

  • You will have an opportunity to make a real impact by driving process improvement and system implementation efforts to streamline operations and improve the quality of the close process and internal controls.
  • Enable quality reporting and accounting operations that support the growth of our business.
  • Ensure the sound operational scale of our business, enabling the expansion of Newsela’s reach and bringing engaging, culturally responsive learning content into the hands of K-12 students and teachers nationwide.


Why We’ll Love You

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business with an emphasis in Accounting
  • 3+ years in public accounting, made it to senior in public accounting OR 3+ years in corporate accounting on a CPA track.
  • Accounting experience with strong technical accounting, audit, and internal controls skills, ideally with Big 4 and/or public company experience.
  • Strong understanding of US GAAP and internal controls, and have experience working with NetSuite.
  • CPA designation, or are actively working towards one
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, are very organized and detail oriented, and thrive on process improvement


Base compensation: $78,000 - $90,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience.

About Newsela

Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.

Disclaimer: Please be aware of recruitment phishing scams affecting Newsela and other employers. Newsela does not use third party services for full time hires. Our recruiting emails will come from an @newsela.com email address. You can reach out to [email protected] if you have concerns about the legitimacy of an email sent by or on behalf of Newsela’s talent acquisition team. Newsela will never ask for financial or banking information from candidates, nor will you be asked for any type of payment as part of consideration for employment with Newsela.

Job Tags

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