Staff Accountant—Fully Remote Position

Overview

Are you ready to join a fast-growing company where your skills will make an immediate impact and your career can thrive? We’re searching for a talented and driven Staff Accountant to join our fast-growing company and play a critical role in our finance and accounting team. This fully remote role offers the chance to help shape our financial processes and reporting while positioning yourself for growth as the company continues to scale. This is an exciting opportunity to join the finance and accounting team in a rapidly growing private company. You will have regular exposure to senior management, can make an immediate impact, grow your responsibilities, and nurture continued development of your skillsets. Why this role at Galactic?

• Have Immediate Impact: You’ll take ownership of key financial operations, from managing general ledger accounts to driving projects that support our growth and scalability.
• A Path to Expand: We’re committed to development of our team members. Success in this role can quickly lead to increased responsibilities and career advancement.
• We have a Collaborative Culture you're looking for: Work closely with senior management, cross-functional teams, and innovative thinkers.
• Flexibility: This fully remote position allows you to work from anywhere while staying connected to a high-performing team.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the preparation of journal entries, account reconciliations, and monthly financial close processes.
• Produce accurate and timely financial statements, reports, and supporting schedules.
• Manage the accounts receivable processes, including cash applications, resolving inquiries, and validating client balances, while overseeing the automated billing process
• Oversee accounts payable, ensuring accurate invoice approvals, disbursements, and vendor communications.
• Support internal and external audits/reviews with comprehensive documentation and insights.
• Collaborate with the technology team to enhance financial systems, processes, and controls.
• Research technical accounting standards and ensure compliance with US GAAP.
• Lead initiatives to identify and address process improvements and operational efficiencies and deploy best practices.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience: At least 3+ years in accounting (public, industry, or a mix).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in US GAAP, Excel, Word, and QuickBooks; experience with other financial tools is a plus.
• Analytical thinker with exceptional problem-solving abilities.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Energetic self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Adaptable and excited to learn new systems and tools.

Compensation: $70,000–$90,000 based on experience. Benefits:

• Healthcare: Health, Dental, and Vision (Galactic covers all premiums)
• 401K (with 3% employer match)
• Flexible schedule and paid time off
• Permanent, remote-only position (we reconnect in person quarterly for a strategic offsite team-building meeting, which always includes some crazy adventure!)

About Galactic: Galactic Advisors is here to assist, advise and educate Managed Service Providers (MSPs) on how to best protect their clients from cyberattacks. We provide tools and assessments to help MSPs determine just how vulnerable they and their clients are to attack, and strategies to improve and build out their cyber stacks. We’re an agile, fully-remote company, and we’re growing fast. We all want to make a difference in our company's mission to help protect a Million people.

• We’re looking for people who:

Take Extreme Ownership: Our team owns their issues, successes, and challenges. We have grit and step up to the plate. We look for ways to say, yes – we can do that. Do It Better: We constantly look for ways to make life easier (and fun), often through process improvement, and automation. Make It Fun: If it isn’t fun, it isn’t worth doing. Even the hard stuff is fun to do if you have the right mindset and the right people around you. Doing it better and making it fun go hand in hand. Do The Right Thing: It’s much harder than sitting back or cutting corners—that is why it’s called the right thing, rather than the easy thing. Apply Job!