Senior Accountant

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.

Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture. 

We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

As a member of the Accounting team at Branch, you’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow the company and business.  You will be a key player of a small team comprised of high performing accounting and finance professionals that work across departments to provide financial support to senior management and department leaders to facilitate decision making.  The Senior Accountant will assist by performing daily, weekly, monthly, and annual accounting and finance processes, entries, and reconciliations as well as ad-hoc financial analyses and projects.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Assist and/or manage various accounting related functions including but not limited to revenue recognition, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and the overall general ledger.
• Assist in the month-end and year-end close process, including preparation of monthly journal entries, accruals, reconciliation of balance sheet accounts and performing inquiries/reviews as necessary to ensure accuracy and consistency of financial data
• Assist in the creation and documentation of new accounting processes to enable Branch to scale
• Assist in researching, establishing, and maintaining financial accounting principles, practices, and procedures to ensure compliance with US GAAP
• Leverage audit experience to enhance internal controls, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards
• Provide support as needed to department and business leaders
• Perform special projects as assigned

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
• 3-5 years of relevant accounting experience, with experience at a high growth fintech company a plus
• 1-2 years of financial audit experience (non-Big 4)
• Working knowledge of US GAAP and technical accounting
• Intermediate level Excel skills with experience working with large amounts of data
• Sage Intacct experience, required
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Compensation:
The base compensation range for this role is 110-120k.  The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the US. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicants’ specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc. The base salary range listed excludes commission/ bonus/ equity or benefits.

Benefits: 

• Branch-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance 
• Remote-first (domestic USA)
• Equity
• 401k
• Flexible time off
• Paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave (eligible after 6 months of employment)

Working at Branch

A remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S., Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together. Learn more about what we do in this video!

Our collaborative spirit has helped us become an award-winning fintech company, with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. Branch has been honored by Inc., the Webby Awards, Benzinga Fintech Awards, Fintech Breakthrough Awards, Top Workplaces USA, Great Places to Work, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Heartland, among others.  

Learn more about our culture, approach, technology, and people here: https://www.branchapp.com/about

Branch is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.