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Salary: USD 87,000 - 108,000 / annual
Caribou is a fintech company helping Americans refinance auto loans to reduce monthly payments and increase expense predictability. The company is backed by QED Investors, Goldman Sachs, Moderne Ventures, and others.
You will report directly to the Senior Manager of Accounting and serve as a foundational anchor on the Accounting team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with direct ownership of day-to-day general ledger activity and responsibility for building scalable accounting systems and processes to support the company's next growth phase.
Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring strict adherence to GAAP and best-in-class accounting policies and procedures
- Overseeing high-volume daily refinance loan transactions and owning daily bank reconciliations
- Managing end-to-end Property, Plant, and Equipment (PPE) analysis, capitalization journal entries, and schedule reconciliations
- Leading accounting onboarding for new lenders, ensuring systems, approval routing, and operational requirements are met before launch
- Driving key month-end close workflows, including preparing complex journal entries and accruals within established deadlines
- Performing monthly balance sheet account and revenue reconciliations with clean tie-outs to the general ledger
- Supporting monthly financial reporting deliverables, variance analysis, and period-over-period reviews against prior periods and budget
- Continuously auditing close procedures to eliminate bottlenecks, automate manual tasks, and accelerate reporting timelines
- Collaborating with the broader Accounting team to establish, document, and enforce GAAP-compliant business processes and internal controls
- Leading cross-departmental efficiency projects, handling audit queries, and supporting ad hoc financial analyses
The role offers flexibility to work remotely from AZ, CO, DC, IL, MD, TX, and VA (with preference for Chicago, Denver, or Phoenix), or hybrid/in-office from Denver or Chandler offices. Occasional in-person team meetings may be required.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting; CPA strongly preferred
- 3–6 years of progressive accounting experience, with preference for public accounting and/or large corporate/fintech experience
- Experience with modern accounting software required; preference for NetSuite
- Strong technical accounting knowledge with understanding of US GAAP and ability to document accounting conclusions
- Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to handle confidential information with discretion
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to collaborate cross-functionally and present complex information to finance and non-finance partners
- Advanced Excel capabilities with proven ability to manipulate and analyze large, complex datasets
- Flexibility to adapt when high-priority needs cause priorities to change
