Assistant Accountant

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Jaffna, Northern Province and two nearshore delivery centres. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Position summary

Looking for an Assistant Accountant who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Expect extra hours during year-end close and audit fieldwork in January and February. Remote within Sri Lanka. The team meets in Jaffna once a quarter, travel covered. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async.

Main duties

• Record fixed asset additions and run monthly depreciation.
• Maintain the general ledger in NetSuite or Sage Intacct.
• Calculate and book revenue under ASC 606 for standard contracts.
• Clean up legacy account balances that do not tie out.
• Investigate P&L variances and explain them to the Controller.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts, including cash, fixed assets and accrued liabilities.
• Process intercompany transactions and eliminations across three entities.
• Track prepaid expenses and amortization schedules.

Minimum qualifications

• 1+ years of general ledger or public accounting experience.
• Comfortable explaining numbers to non-accountants.
• Available for extra hours at month-end and year-end.
• Experience with month-end close and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Hands-on with NetSuite, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online or another ERP.

Pay and benefits

• Flexible hours.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Samarasinghe Cloud.