Senior Accounting Manager

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

The Senior Accounting Manager will help scale and strengthen GameChanger's accounting function. You will lead monthly and quarterly close processes, partner with FP&A to support budgeting and forecasting, and lead improvements across reconciliations, journal entries, and accounting systems. You will also implement internal controls, ensuring compliance with GAAP and DICK'S Sporting Goods requirements. As part of this role, you'll provide mentorship and daily guidance to members of the accounting team while building scalable processes to support a high-growth technology business. You will report to the Director of Finance & Corporate Development.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close processes, ensuring timely and accurate results in accordance with GAAP and Company policy

• Manage balance sheet reconciliations and lead cleanup of existing accounts and reporting processes

• Establish and implement internal controls, approval processes to support scaling operations and compliance with DICK'S Sporting Goods requirements

• Approve journal entries, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal and external requirements

• Collaborate with Finance and Company business partners to understand and forecast variances to budget. Identify future financial risks or opportunities and communicate to Finance leadership

• Assist with preparation and execution of annual budgets (P&L and Balance Sheet)

• Support audits and compliance processes, preparing documentation and leading communication with DICK'S Sporting Goods and external auditors where applicable

• Launch new ideas and innovate with confidence. Implement automation and other process improvement activities related to team's responsibilities

• Responsible for managing, developing and directing Accounting teammates. Develop critical skillsets across the team; provide ongoing developmental feedback and opportunities for growth

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience within startups or high-growth environments, ideally in a SaaS or software business

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA preferred

• Expertise in U.S. GAAP with hands-on experience leading monthly and quarterly close processes and preparing financial statements

• Background in establishing internal controls, including journal entry approvals, reconciliations, and audit readiness

• Experience supporting external audits and collaborating with parent companies or external team members on compliance requirements

• Advanced proficiency with NetSuite (required) and Excel/Google Sheets skills (pivot tables, advanced formulas)

• Experience maintaining balance sheet reconciliations in a scaling environment

• People management experience mentoring and developing accounting staff

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development

• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.

• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.

• DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

The target salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $170,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

* DICK'S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com or [email protected]. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.