Senior Accountant

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)

About Sleeper

Sleeper is a chat app and social platform that helps friends connect over sports-related content and games. Its free-to-play season-long fantasy football game has become the 2nd most popular in the country, and it is a leading provider of paid-entry daily fantasy sports contests. The company behind Sleeper was established in 2014 and its backers include the premier venture capital firms Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Birchmere Ventures. 

Role overview

Sleeper is looking for someone to take its financial record-keeping and payables processes to the next level of growth. This person would be involved in all elements of vendor relationships and spend management and would be responsible for ensuring that the data in the company’s General Ledger ensures it is a “single source of truth” for all financial decision making. 

Sleeper’s finance team is focused on maximizing technology and minimizing processes to build a scalable, best-in-class financial and control environment for a rapidly growing company. The team prides itself on its agility, looking to do more without more people so that every teammate feels energized, challenged, and able to make outsized contributions to the company’s growth. As such, in addition to many routine responsibilities, this person will also be drawn into any number of growth-driven projects.

Some of what you’ll be doing for the team

The routine responsibilities of this role are booking accounting entries in the General Ledger and managing the Accounts Payable process and assisting in the financial close process and audits. The person in this role will also be responsible for keeping numerous policies and procedures and controls documents current, and for assisting in a variety of forecasting and analytics exercises. Specific examples of the work this person will be responsible for include the following.

• Booking accounting entries in the company’s NetSuite General Ledger that make use of the Company’s reporting dimensions to facilitate in-depth management analytics

• Maintaining vendor records in NetSuite, overseeing the controls around vendor onboarding/ contracting, and working with stakeholders to forecast changes in vendor spend

• Developing relationships with the billing departments of key vendors and responding to all internal and external billing-related inquiries

• Responding to diligence requests from vendors

• Getting the necessary approvals to pay invoices from vendors, coding them in NetSuite, and preparing the payment files that get uploaded to banking portals

• “Managing upwards” to ensure the people involved in approving, paying and recording bills …