Vice President, Accounting

🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $275k - $325k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Vice President

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PayNearMe

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $50M Series E - PayNearMe on 2025-09

Fintech • SaaS • B2B

PayNearMe is a payments technology company that provides a modern, end-to-end platform for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. The platform emphasizes Payment Experience Management, offering features such as modern payment processing, automation and self-service, exception management, and a cash-at-retail network. PayNearMe targets business customers across industries (auto & consumer lending, tolling, iGaming, buy-here-pay-here dealers, credit unions, mortgage servicing, law firms, etc. ) and advertises metrics including 16+ years in operation, $50B+ processed annually, 16,000+ businesses on its platform, and 62,000+ cash-at-retail locations. Money transmission services are provided by its subsidiaries PayNearMe MT, Inc. and PayNearMe Financial, Inc.

📋 Description

• Lead PayNearMe’s Accounting organization, including general ledger, close and consolidation, revenue and transaction accounting, invoicing where required, accounts payable, payroll accounting, technical accounting, and financial reporting • Ensure timely, accurate, and GAAP-compliant monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements • Own accounting treatment for payments, disbursements, fees, processor costs, refunds, returns, chargebacks, reserves, client liabilities, revenue sharing, and other transaction-related activity • Maintain accounting policies for new products, payment types, contractual arrangements, and complex or unusual transactions • Manage external audits and support financial, bank-partner, client, and regulatory examinations • Build and maintain internal controls covering financial reporting, client funds, system access, manual adjustments, approvals, and segregation of duties • Partner with Tax, Legal, Compliance, and Risk on regulatory reporting, money-transmitter requirements, safeguarding obligations, and client-funds matters • Oversee daily settlement and disbursement activity across ACH, card, cash, wire, real-time payments, and other payment rails • Manage FBO, custodial, settlement, prefund, disbursement, exception, and other client-funds accounts • Lead operational response to settlement failures, bank or processor discrepancies, delayed disbursements, unexpected account balances, and other client-funds incidents • Own reconciliation across transaction systems, subledgers, processor and collector records, bank and FBO accounts, client balances, and the general ledger • Certify that client-funds balances are complete, accurate, appropriately segregated, and supported by underlying records • Define the target operating model for money movement, reconciliation, exception management, and payments accounting • Translate Finance and Operations requirements into product, data, ledger, and workflow requirements for Product and Engineering • Drive automation of settlement processing, reconciliation, exception categorization, approvals, journal creation, financial reporting, and control evidence • Build scalable systems and processes supporting greater transaction volume, products, payment rails, and regulatory complexity • Build, lead, and develop high-performing Money Movement Operations, Payment Reconciliation, and Accounting teams • Communicate complex funds-flow, accounting, and control issues to executive leadership, clients, bank partners, auditors, and the Board

🎯 Requirements

• 12–15+ years of progressive experience across payments accounting, controllership, financial operations, banking operations, treasury operations, or payment reconciliation • Significant leadership experience within a FinTech, payment processor, financial institution, marketplace, money transmitter, card program, or other high-volume money-movement business • Demonstrated ownership of complex client-funds flows, including collections, settlement, FBO or custodial accounts, prefunding, disbursements, refunds, returns, and exceptions • Strong knowledge of ACH, card networks, wires, real-time payments, checks, cash networks, and other payment methods • Deep understanding of payment processing, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, subledgers, general ledgers, and customer-funds liabilities • Experience leading a corporate Accounting or Controllership organization, including close, financial reporting, technical accounting, audit, and internal controls • Strong understanding of GAAP and the accounting implications of payment transactions, processor activity, client-funds obligations, reserves, and revenue-sharing arrangements • Experience designing maker/checker controls, approval authorities, system permissions, reconciliation controls, and auditable manual-adjustment processes • Proven ability to identify control gaps and operational risks and then work with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to build scalable solutions • Experience implementing or materially improving reconciliation platforms, transaction subledgers, ERP integrations, treasury or banking systems, and workflow automation • Strong data orientation; comfortable investigating transaction-level activity and working with large datasets. SQL or comparable analytical fluency is highly desirable • Experience supporting external audits, bank-partner reviews, regulatory examinations, and financial-control testing • CPA strongly preferred. An equivalent combination of accounting expertise and deep payments-operations leadership will be considered • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant • Fast- paced and professional work culture • Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total • $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill • $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup • Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200) • Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees) • Company-sponsored life and disability insurance • Paid parental bonding leave • Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement • 401k plan • Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year) • Volunteer Time Off • 13 scheduled holidays