Position Details
Senior Accounting Manager
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Summary
You are an experienced accounting professional who has paid their dues and has a ‘house’ full of skills and experience. We NEED you! We are a young, rapidly growing public company that is well funded and on track for bigger things. We are assembling a ‘cream of the crop’ collaborative team to lead us into the future. Our serious side is balanced with our fun and healthy sides, and it is reflected in our workplace. Your contribution here will matter – as will you as an individual. As we grow our global reach as a company – sharing truth-seeking and transformational stories, scientific research, and whole health-oriented offerings – we will be contributing and empowering the evolution of consciousness to our communities and planet. Come join us!
As a Senior Accounting Manager, you will play a pivotal role on a strong financial reporting team, both providing strategic support to the business through timely and accurate financial reporting along with supporting key decisions through partnering with the business, helping us achieve our financial goals in a dynamic, member-supported environment.
At Gaia, soft skills are key to success. We seek candidates with strong interpersonal abilities – effective communication, teamwork, prioritization, and problem solving – who can adapt to change, manage conflicts with empathy, and collaborate well with diverse teams. While technical skills matter, we highly value those who build positive relationships, contribute to a supportive culture, and approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset. If this sounds like you, you’ll thrive in our dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
Reporting:
- Supporting the operations of the accounting department, including payroll
- Manage, coach and mentor members of the accounting team
- Maintaining the general ledger, produce GAAP financial statements, manage SEC reporting, including filings of 10-Q’s, 10-K’s, 8-K’s
- Working with the Content team, implement and maintain a system of tracking and reporting on costs of internally produced content
- Responsible for design and effective operation of internal disclosure controls over financial reporting
- Manage all accounting functions, including day-to-day operations and month-end closing process, including reconciliations, technical accounting research and documentation and both reviewing and recording general ledger entries.
- Proven ability to manage accounts payable and accounts receivable processes.
- Manage outsourced functions, including tax preparers, internal auditors, and others as needed
- Drive compliance and filings, including tax filings, local filings for various states and all foreign entities’ filings (as applicable)
- Assist in the preparation of annual operating budgets and financial projections monthly
- Work directly with Company’s auditor and manage audit and SOX process
- Maintain current knowledge of tax matters and implement tax savings strategies
Strategic Initiatives:
- Collaborate with FP&A, data analytics, marketing, and data engineering teams to enhance understanding and accuracy of financial reporting and technical accounting transactions as necessary
- Identify areas of improvement and automation, driving efficiency across financial processes.
- Conduct ad-hoc analyses and other corporate initiatives.
Qualifications
What you’re bringing:
- Maintain a “big-picture” focus while ensuring short-term goals are accomplished
- A dynamic, entrepreneurial, and proactive approach to business
- Bachelor’s degree required and CPA preferred
- Public company experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrate a strong fluency with U.S. GAAP and SOX
- Have 7+ years of experience in accounting and financial reporting
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and data presentation
- Experience with financial software like Intacct and FloQast
- Familiarity with task management software such as Asana
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize tasks, and deliver results in a fast-paced dynamic environment
- A collaborative mindset and a commitment to seeking to understand and continuous improvement.
- US citizenship or US residency with an existing work permit is required.
- Non-smoker
- Must be available to work on our campus in Louisville, CO. This is not a remote role.
Compensation
- Type: Salary
- Range: $115000 - $150000 (USD)
More About Gaia
Gaia exists as a transformational network to empower a global conscious community.
Gaia (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a publicly traded company in Louisville, Colorado. We offer global video streaming of over 8,000 original series, shows, films, documentaries, and practices for conscious living to our members in over 190 countries. Our vast video library serves as a vessel for the community we seek to empower. We are not a subscription service that streams whatever pays our bills. Our content goes deep into select niches of Seeking Truth, Transformation, Alternative Health and Yoga channels. We often cover subjects that other media companies won’t touch.
We expect you did explore Gaia’s library of original shows, documentaries, and films. If our work on ancient wisdom, who are we, our true history, coverups, and metaphysics resonates, you might be a good fit for Gaia. We seek to hire and inspire employees who embrace our mission to empower a global conscious community, who hope their work empowers our community of inspired members, to be a catalyst of transformation. The best work we do every day is to remember our vision is “to empower the evolution of consciousness.”
The perks of working collaboratively with a team dedicated to sharing this mission include an on-site gym; a beautiful solar-powered campus, complete with hiking and running trails, community garden, and a labyrinth; and an on-site, mostly organic café that serves breakfast and lunch daily including a full-service espresso bar featuring locally roasted coffee.
Full-time employees are offered alternative and traditional medical benefits including preventative coverage; as well as dental, vision, 401K, and life insurance.