Senior Accountant

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We’re hiring a Senior Accountant to help keep Hallow’s financial foundation strong as we grow our mission. You’ll own key parts of the month-end close, ensure our financials are accurate and audit-ready, and help improve the systems and processes that support the business. You’ll partner closely with the Director of Accounting, AR Specialist, and Accounting Associate to ensure responsibilities are clearly owned and well-coordinated.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who cares about doing excellent work behind the scenes so the rest of the team can focus on what matters most — and support the best mission‑driven startup in the world.

• Core Accounting & Month‑End Close: Own key areas of the month‑end close end‑to‑end, including preparing journal entries, reconciliations, and roll forwards across revenue, equity, sales tax, and other balance sheet accounts while consistently hitting our 10‑day close target. Maintain clean, audit‑ready work papers, partner closely with the Director of Accounting to keep close on track, and continuously improve close speed, accuracy, and scalability.
• Payroll Management: Prepare and reconcile pay runs across multiple countries and systems; prepare payroll, compensation, and payroll tax accrual journal entries, and ensure all payroll‑related balances are fully reconciled each month. Prepare and initiate contractor and channel partner match payments, reconcile benefit accruals, and manage payroll adjustments.
• Revenue Cycle Management: Own the revenue cycle from contract to cash, including reviewing contracts and invoicing schedules, calculating monthly revenue recognition and deferrals, recording commission expense, and reconciling accounts receivable and deferred revenue balances. Partner closely with the AR Specialist and growth team to ensure billing, cash application, and revenue recognition stay aligned as the business scales.
• Technical Accounting, Compliance, & Audit Support: Support technical accounting areas under U.S. GAAP; prepare schedules and analyses for external audits, tax filings, and advisory engagements; and partner with external advisors to address accounting and compliance questions as they arise. Own sales tax nexus tracking and monthly sales tax filings across multiple jurisdictions, and support state payroll registrations while coordinating communications with state and local tax agencies to resolve notices and ensure ongoing compliance.
• Controls & Process Improvement: Execute and maintain internal controls within assigned processes, document accounting workflows and standard operating procedures, identify control gaps, and propose practical improvements that strengthen accuracy, consistency, and scalability.
• Team & Cross‑Functional Partnership: Act as a trusted accounting partner to teams across the business, support knowledge sharing and cross‑training within the accounting team, and bring an ownership‑oriented mindset to how accounting supports Hallow’s broader mission and growth.

• Mission: This work is incredibly humbling. Everyday we hear amazing stories and we get the pleasure of working on something that’s impacting lives. One of our favorite user quotes: “I hate quoting an old, overused cliche, but I’ve been very lost. And I think for the first time in a while I may be found.” Our work matters. Every day, we hear stories from people whose lives have been impacted by Hallow — and your work will make that possible.
• Ownership: You’ll have real responsibility and ownership over meaningful parts of our accounting function.
• Growth: You’ll help build and scale processes, not just maintain them, as Hallow continues to grow. Every employee is a core team member who is expected to help build the company as a whole as we settle into a culture and continue to expand the team.
• Team: You’ll work with thoughtful, mission‑driven teammates who care deeply about the work, the mission, and supporting one another well.
• Flexibility: HQ will be in Chicago and we would love to have as many team members there as possible, but we are completely flexible on location within the United States.
• Comp: We will pay competitive market rates in…