Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting
JustworksNew York, New York$97k – $107kPosted 27 March 2026
Job Description
Who We Are
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
Our Values
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Who You Are
The Senior Accountant of Financial Reporting will help prepare and manage our internal and external financial reporting build-out in accordance with SEC standards. You will be involved in consolidated financial reporting and analysis, technical accounting projects, carrying out new processes, and helping manage cross-functional efforts with the accounting team to ensure they are kept informed on new accounting standards and implications of financial transactions. You are comfortable with quickly adapting to change and will champion the advancement of processes and controls surrounding financial reporting and technical accounting.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
Prepare monthly consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, including Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow, ensuring internal consistency and period-over-period continuity.
Prepare materials for the financial statement disclosure process, including drafting footnotes, maintaining the disclosure checklist, and managing all related support documentation.
Prepare quarterly high-level fluctuation analysis for the Balance Sheet and Income Statement to document significant changes between periods.
Collaborate with the Controllers group, FPA, and the international accounting group to ensure income statements and balance sheet transactions are classified correctly
Stay updated on Regulation S-X and S-K requirements, applying them to financial presentations and disclosures within quarterly and annual reports
Partner with the Senior Manager to design and implement new internal control procedures for month-end close and quarterly reporting.
Assist with the technical implementation and adoption of new accounting standards and identify new disclosures required by US GAAP updates.
Manage the monthly stock-based compensation process, including preparing the workbook, calculating expense, and recording journal entries in accordance with ASC 718
Coordinate with Legal to facilitate equity transaction processing (grants, exercises, vesting) and ensure accurate financial recording.
Prepare equity-specific reporting, including footnote support and assisting with the quarterly equity cycle.
Work with external and internal auditors, providing supporting documentation for quarterly reviews and annual audits.
Assist with special projects and ad-hoc financial initiatives as needed.
How You Will Do Your Work
As a member of the Financial Reporting team, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
Detail-oriented - exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough, accurate, organized, and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
Analytical - uses a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem to arrive at an outcome.
Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifyin ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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