Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

Department: Finance & Accounting

Reports To: Director of Finance (UK) [with direct support of CFO in local East Cost time zone]

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Summary

Glow are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Accountant to join our growing finance team. This role will be responsible for overseeing key accounting functions, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP, supporting financial reporting, and enhancing internal controls. The ideal candidate has experience in financial services or FinTech, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and other relative international standards, regulatory requirements, and company accounting policies.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements and management reports.
• Support external and internal audits, including preparation of audit schedules and documentation.
• Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for process improvements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Compliance, and broader Finance teams
• Maintain and enhance internal controls.
• Support accounting for FinTech-specific transactions, such as payment processing, revenue recognition, digital wallets, lending, or interchange fees.
• Assist with regulatory and statutory reporting as required.
• Drive process automation and improvements within accounting systems and workflows.
• Mentor junior accounting staff and contribute to team development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• CPA preferred.
• 5 years of accounting experience, preferably within financial services, banking, payments, or FinTech. (Start-up experience a plus)
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and financial reporting requirements. (U.K. GAAP and IFRS a plus)
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle). 
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with modern AI tooling (Claude Cowork, etc.) strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with month-end close and audit processes.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.

Efficient Financing | Innovative Technology | Experiential Simplicity 

Glow Financial Services aspires to be an outstanding employer and industry leader, creating an environment where our colleagues deliver what our clients and customers need.  

Our core values are integral to our culture, and these are embedded throughout our decision making and goal setting processes, driving relationships with clients, customers and colleagues. This means: 

• Ensuring total peace of mind for our customers and clients 
• Excellence through exceeding expectations by being inquisitive and resourceful, identifying and managing risks along the way  
• Innovation in telecoms services 
• Integrity – we do what we say we will for all our stakeholders 
• Passion – we love what we do and approach every engagement with energy, enthusiasm and determination 
• Accountability with a fair and ethical approach to all our relationships 
• Collaboration – with relationships based on trust and open communication, where everyone can perform at their best.  
• Revolution – always thinking ahead, delivering change for maximum positive impact and longevity.  

We seek to recruit a diverse team as we believe our values are best achieved by bringing together different points of view. Recruiting people from different backgrounds with different life experiences means we can constructively challenge each other’s thinking to achieve great results. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate their fit into this culture and be motivated to play a leading role in developing the team as a whole.