About this role
About the Role
Backcountry's accounting team has gone through significant turnover and is rebuilding. This role owns core month-end close work — journal entries, accruals, bank and payment channel reconciliations, and the revenue and cash cycle across our multi-channel platforms.
As Staff Accountant , you will execute close tasks accurately and on time, build well-documented reconciliations, develop a working command of NetSuite and the consolidation process, and find at least one manual task to streamline with AI or automation within your first year.
This is a lean team. You will own a lot, move fast, and make decisions with full end-to-end responsibility.
What You'll Do
- Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, and adjustments as part of the monthly close checklist
- Reconcile bank accounts, commercial card statements, and multi-channel customer payment platforms
- Own the revenue and cash cycle across payment channels, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately
- Pull and analyze NetSuite data for reporting and variance analysis
- Gather supporting documentation from business owners, Accounts Payable, and cross-functional teams
- Support acquisition integration, internal controls, and other team projects as they arise
- Identify and streamline manual processes using AI tools or automation
- Maintain clean, well-documented workpapers and reconciliations that can be reviewed and audited
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- 0 to 3 years of public or corporate accounting experience (internships count)
- Solid US GAAP fundamentals, including accruals and account reconciliations
- Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large data sets
- Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills
- Accuracy under tight deadlines with the ability to juggle multiple priorities during month-end close
- Willingness to learn and curiosity about incorporating AI into accounting workflows
- Able to work in-office in Cottonwood Heights, Utah on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Oracle NetSuite or another ERP system
- Public accounting background (audit or tax)
- Multi-entity or consolidated accounting experience
- Exposure to Looker or other BI tools
- Retail or e-commerce industry experience
Why Join
The people who do best here are builders. They take ownership, move fast, and want to see the direct impact of their work.
- Team Impact: Join a rebuilding accounting team where your contributions are visible and valued from day one. You will work closely with your manager and senior team members to keep the close running smoothly.
- Growth and Development: Clear path from Staff Accountant to Senior Accountant-level scope within 18 to 24 months, with expanding ownership of close areas, acquisition integration, internal controls, and enterprise systems.
- Real Ownership: You are trusted from day one to own close tasks end-to-end, build documentation, and find ways to improve how the team works.
- Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.
Interview Process
- Recruiter Screen - A 30-minute phone conversation with our recruiting team to discuss your background, interest in the role, Excel comfort, AI curiosity, availability, and logistics.
- Hiring Manager Interview - A 45-minute video conversation with the VP of Accounting focused on your attention to detail, initiative, accounting fundamentals, and how you approach problem-solving.
- Take-Home Case Study - A role-appropriate case study focused on problem-solving and critical thinking, sent after the Hiring Manager Interview and presented during the Panel Interview.
- In-Person Panel Interview - A 90-minute in-person session at our Cottonwood Heights office where you will present your case study and meet members of the accounting and FP&A teams. Details and logistics will be arranged with your recruiter.
- Reference Checks - Conducted in parallel with the final stages where possible.
- Offer - We move quickly for the right candidate.
Interview process is subject to change. Any updates will be communicated promptly and clearly.
Please Note
- Part of our interview process is a mandatory in-person interview with someone on our team prior to an offer. Candidates that are unwilling or unable to meet for an in-person interview will be removed from consideration immediately.