8+ years in accounting roles with increasing responsibility, including leadership experience.
CPA required.
Deep expertise in US GAAP, particularly in revenue recognition and consolidations.
Hands-on experience with AI tools and their implementation in accounting processes.
Proven ability to build controls and lead audits effectively.
Strong cross-functional communication skills, especially with technical teams.
Experience with QuickBooks preferred.
Responsibilities
Own the financial close and consolidated reporting, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.
Implement AI and automation in accounting processes to enhance efficiency.
Optimize the general ledger and select an ERP system for future growth.
Manage the accounting team and establish clear processes and service levels.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline billing and revenue data flow.
Lead the annual audit process and maintain auditor relationships.
Ensure timely and accurate investor, tax, and external reporting.
Benefits
Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage.
HSA/FSA options available.
401(k) retirement planning with employer matching.
Unlimited paid time off.
Annual company holidays and additional recharge days off.
12 weeks parental leave for eligible employees.
Company-paid Wagmo pet wellness and insurance plans.
Annual fully-paid company-wide retreat.
Pet-friendly office environment.
Catered lunches.
Full Job Description
About The Role
We are hiring an Accounting Director to own our financial reporting and lead an accounting function that is fast, accurate, and audit-ready. You will run the monthly financial close, own the annual audit, and build the controls that let us scale effectively. This role also optimizes our general ledger and brings AI proactively into how accounting gets done. It offers the opportunity to partner with key business owners across Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Success. This role will report to our VP Finance. Our clients, investors, and auditors rely on our numbers. You will make sure they can trust them.
Location: This is a hybrid role based in NYC; candidates must be willing and able to work in-office three days per week.
Core Responsibilities
Own the financial close and consolidated reporting: Run the monthly, quarterly, and annual close. Make it faster and cleaner each quarter, with few post-close adjustments.
Make accounting AI-first: Build and run a roadmap for using AI and automation in reconciliations, anomaly detection, and control testing. Your goal is to have AI in at least half of our accounting processes by the end of your first year.
Strengthen our general ledger: Clean up and optimize our books in QuickBooks, then run the selection of the ERP that will carry us through our next stage of growth.
Build the team and controls behind our books: Manage our accounting team with clear service levels and documented processes, and decide what we should bring in-house as we grow. Work with our Finance Manager to improve cash reporting and tighten cash controls and processes.
Scale billing: Work with Engineering, Product, Client Success, and Sales so billing and revenue data flow cleanly across our enterprise clients and broker partners. Fewer errors and disputes, and less manual rework.
Lead the annual audit: Manage the audit from start to finish and own the auditor relationship. Build a control framework that fits a growing private company: key controls, reconciliations, and segregation of duties.
Deliver investor, tax, and external reporting: Make sure reporting is accurate, on time, and ties to the books. Oversee federal and state tax reporting requirements with the support of our external tax advisors.
What You'll Need To Be Successful
8+ years in accounting roles with increasing responsibility, including experience leading people. CPA required.
Deep US GAAP expertise. You know revenue recognition, consolidations, and accruals well. Experience in insurance, insurance-adjacent, or subscription and benefits businesses is a plus. You can take a position and defend it to auditors.
Hands-on curiosity about AI. You have picked tools, chosen use cases, measured the payoff, and managed risks like data privacy and accuracy.
Experience building controls and leading audits. You have built documentation and controls that scale, and you balance rigor with speed.
Strong cross-functional partnership. You can explain accounting needs to Engineering and Product in their terms, and you earn trust with Sales and Client Success.
A builder's mindset. You have led an external team, and you have led people through big changes like a new system or process.
Experience with QuickBooks is preferred.
Why Consider This Role?
Pet spending in the U.S. has reached $200 billion and the category is still early in its lifecycle. Wagmo is building the platform to lead it. This is a rare chance to join at a moment when the work you do today shapes what the industry looks like tomorrow.
Wagmo is a female-founded, Inc. 5000 recognized company where performance matters more than pedigree. We are growing fast, building something that matters, and there is real ownership equity in that journey.
The team is exceptionally smart, curious, and kind, led by transparent and low-ego leadership. We take the work seriously and never take ourselves too seriously. This is not a traditional 9-to-5 job. It asks for real dedication and impact, and gives you genuine flexibility and autonomy in return.
Key Benefits
Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
HSA/FSA
401(k) retirement planning with employer matching
Unlimited paid time off
Annual company holidays
Additional company-wide recharge days off
12 weeks parental leave for eligible employees
Company paid Wagmo pet wellness and insurance plans
