Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant About the Company Industrious is the largest premium flexible workspace company in the world, operating over 250 locations across 10 countries as part of the CBRE portfolio. We design workplaces where teams feel welcomed, supported, and able to do their best work. The same principle guides how we work together as a company. Great days also start when everyone can be their authentic self at work. Diversity of backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas is critical to our success in delivering great workplace experiences, both for our members and for each other. Industrious is committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment that embraces your individuality and quirkiness. You are valued for who YOU are. We celebrate our people as individuals who can accomplish great things when we work together as one team. To learn more, visit www.industriousoffice.com/careers http://www.industriousoffice.com/careers. About The Role As a newly public-backed company, our financial operations are evolving rapidly, and we need a dedicated expert to bridge the gap between our People, IT, and Finance teams. Reporting to our Senior Accounting Manager, you will own our global payroll accounting and take the lead on a newly established software labor capitalization process that directly impacts our bottom line. What Your Day Might Look Like It is the second business day of the month, which means you are deep into the core month- end close. You start your morning by pulling the latest global payroll data from Workday, partnering closely with the People team to ensure all new hires, transfers, and compensation changes across North America, Europe, and APAC are accurately captured. You translate this data, ensuring it flows perfectly into NetSuite for the management team to review. In the afternoon, you jump on a call with our IT and Engineering leaders. We have recently implemented a new policy to capitalize software development labor costs, and you are taking the reins from an external contractor who set up the initial framework. You ask the right questions to understand exactly which development projects qualify, ensuring our accounting reflects the true value of the technology we are building. Before logging off, you review your journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations, knowing that your meticulous work over these first three days of the month sets the foundation for our broader corporate reporting to CBRE. What You Will Own: - Global payroll accounting across North America, Europe, and APAC, ensuring accurate journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis. - Management of software development labor capitalization process, partnering with the Digital team to ensure compliance with internal policies. - Month-end close responsibilities for your dedicated areas, hitting strict three-day internal deadlines before moving into post-close analysis. - Collaboration with the People team to ensure all employee lifecycle changes are reflected in the correct accounting period. - Development and refinement of internal controls and procedures to help the accounting function achieve and maintain SOC compliance. You Will Love This Role If: - You thrive when given full ownership of a process and enjoy rolling up your sleeves to understand the 'why' behind the numbers. - You are a natural translator who loves speaking with non-finance partners, turning complex HR and IT activities into clear accounting outcomes. - You find energy in a condensed, high-stakes month-end close where accuracy and speed matter. - You enjoy taking a newly built framework, learning its intricacies, and finding ways to make it more efficient over time. - You are highly communicative and responsive, valuing strong team connection even when working in a remote or hybrid setup. This Role Is Probably Not for You If: - You prefer a fully established, unchanging playbook where you never have to build or refine a process. - You find a conden ... (truncated, view full listing at source)