Senior Accountant
The Opportunity
Pillar4 Media is seeking a Senior Accountant to join its fast-growing team.
As a member of the Digital Marketing team, you’ll work closely with senior leadership and other team members to manage the corporate finance, accounting, and month-end close for Pillar4 Media.
Pillar4’s mission is to help people live their best days, starting with their best night’s sleep. Our vision is to build the #1 content and commerce engine connecting consumers directly to the best brands in all four pillars of health and wellness: sleep, fitness, nutrition, and mental health.
What You'll Be Doing
Reporting to the Senior Director, Finance, the Senior Accountant will:
- Manage the monthly financial close process, including ensuring all costs incurred are properly recorded
- Oversee accounts payable and receivable functions, including invoicing at month-end
- Book revenue and expense accruals
- Maintain and reconcile balance sheet and general ledger accounts, including bank reconciliations
- Summarize and prepare financial statement reports, including a profit and loss statement, balance sheet, and other necessary reports
- Be responsible for hierarchy and scalability in the chart of accounts and accuracy in the general ledger
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Ensure that accounting procedures comply with GAAP requirements
- Manage payroll functions for the company, including booking monthly journal entries
- Collaborate with external auditors to ensure successful audit results and compliance
- Assist with compilation of information for preparation of tax returns
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- 4-7 years of experience in accounting or finance
- CPA preferred
- Experience with financial reporting requirements
- Exceptional knowledge of finance, accounting, cost accounting, and cost control principles and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly with Excel
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Desire for a fast-paced, constantly changing environment with competing priorities and deadlines
- Competitive drive and a hunger to learn
What We Look For
Openness to feedback and collaboration
You’ll be working closely with folks across different teams, so you’ll need to be open to the process and accepting of feedback and critique.
Strong communication skills
You’ll have the ability to build relationships with external stakeholders, report up to internal stakeholders, and foster strong alignment with your team.
Alignment with Pillar4’s culture
We live by our values and expect our team to buy in.
- Act with focus
- Get after it
- Grow without limits
- Build the team
Entrepreneurial spirit
Our team members act like entrepreneurs in that we are incredibly driven, agile, goal-oriented, and are always up for a challenge.
Why You Should Join Us
Results
Pillar4 has built the #1 digital media company in the sleep health and hygiene space and is profitably expanding into fitness, nutrition, and mental health verticals.
Stability
We are privately owned, have a holding period of ‘forever,’ and have significant cash to invest.
Exposure
You will have a front-row seat in growing a business. Your teammates have built and sold companies, managed hundreds of employees, and run campaigns with Fortune 500 brands.
Market landscape
The $4 trillion health and wellness market is a highly relatable industry that is transforming. There’s no better time than now to be building a business in this space.
Career growth
There is no cap on growth, promotions, or the opportunity to own and put your stamp on important projects. Prove your value and you will be rewarded accordingly.
Learning
We are a mighty team with subject matter experts in creative, branding, content strategy, SEO, paid media, and more. The opportunity to grow new skills and learn from smart people is endless.
Impact-focused
Opportunities to take part in our quarterly initiatives with organizations like Beds for Kids and The Green Chair Project and help respond to the critical needs of our local communities.
Fun
The team has a high bar for excellence but also a real interest in each other and making work fun.
The Package
Who We Are
Launched in 2017, Pillar4 Media operates a portfolio of websites that help consumers live their best days, starting with their best night’s sleep. We aim to educate consumers about whole body health and wellness and help them make better, faster purchase decisions to improve their health.
We also partner with the leading direct-to-consumer brands in our markets to grow their businesses online. Our current portfolio includes the following:
- Mattress Advisor, launched in 2017
- Mattress Nerd, acquired in 2018
- Sleepopolis, acquired in 2020
- Mattress Clarity, acquired in 2020
- The Fit House, launched in 2021
- Garage Gym Reviews, acquired in 2021
- Partnerships with large media brands
Pillar4 has operations in Charlotte, Raleigh, NYC, and Austin with remote teammates stretching to Denver and Portland.
Pillar4 Media is part of the Three Ships family of digital businesses.
One Better Ventures (OBV) is an investor in Pillar4. OBV is a consumer-focused venture capital firm focused on creating sustainable businesses that do good in the world. OBV is led by the former management teams of Burt’s Bees and Seventh Generation.
All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or any other discriminatory factors. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this role. All offers are subject to a background check.
Team: Digital Marketing
Location: Charlotte, NC