Accounting Operations Manager

Fringe's employee experience platform combines a B2B model with a B2B2C marketplace. Employers pay us a subscription and fund lifestyle benefits, swag, recognition, and gifting for their people. Employees spend those dollars as points in our marketplace across hundreds of vendors. We pay the vendors. That means we run a SaaS business and a marketplace at the same time, with deferred revenue, points liabilities, and a cohort of channel partners layered on top. If you find that combination energizing rather than intimidating, keep reading.

You'll be the in-house finance and accounting leader at Fringe and will take over a well-built set of documented, repeatable close processes. You will own the monthly close and everything that comes out of it, run our financial operations end to end, and be the person everyone at Fringe comes to with a finance question. You'll report to the COO and work closely with Operations and Product.

This is a role for a professional who wants to jump into a startup environment and own a whole function. It is a lot of hats and it is a rare amount of scope, ownership, and visibility..

Run the full monthly close: close calendar, journal entries, reconciliations, and sign-off across subscription and marketplace revenue.

Own revenue recognition under ASC 606 for a hybrid model: PEPM subscriptions, employer-funded marketplace spend, gifting, and partner revenue share.

Maintain deferred revenue and points liability roll-forwards and keep the balance sheet clean and explainable.

Produce internal and external monthly reporting: variance and flux analysis and the executive dashboard.

Support the annual audit and tax processes with our outside CPA firms.

Treasury and cash: cash forecast, bank relationships, managing operating balances, and executing outbound wires and ACH payments with proper approvals.

Accounts payable, accounts receivable and collections in partnership with Customer Success: customer invoicing and billing accuracy, vendor payment runs, and chasing what’s past due.

Payroll, working with People Operations and our PEO.

Review all accounting work and ensure a high standard.

Be the main point of contact for all things finance internally: contract terms, vendor questions, funding schedules, commission plans, budgets.

Spot the process that's slowing us down and fix it. Drive operational improvement rather than waiting for someone to ask.

High agency and a bias for action. You'd rather ship a good answer today than a perfect one next week, and you know which situations call for which.

Comfortable being the only finance person in the room, and honest about when you need a second set of eyes.

A clear communicator who can explain a flux to the CEO, a payment term to a salesperson, and a rev rec judgment to an auditor.

Curious about how the business actually works, not just how it's booked.

Someone who owns mistakes, extends grace, and shows up as the same person every day. That's who we are.

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.

5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience.

Deep understanding of GAAP, especially ASC 606.

Hands-on experience running monthly close procedures and meeting internal and external reporting requirements.

Familiarity with an accounting tech stack and a spreadsheet wizard (Quickbooks, Tabs, Anrok, FloQast, Salesforce, Claude, Google Sheets)

Strong leadership, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to drive operational improvement.

Quality communicator, written and verbal.

Experience at Big 4, high-growth startup, management consulting, or investment banking.

CPA (active or license applicant).

SaaS or marketplace experience, especially with deferred revenue, points or stored value, or multi-party revenue.