Senior Accountant

About Teads

Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

About the opportunity 

Teads is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Accountant to join our corporate accounting team. This critical role is responsible for the preparation, reconciliation, and analysis of consolidated financial accounts under US GAAP for our listed US company, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our global financial reporting across numerous international locations. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with a strong background in public company accounting and a commitment to process excellence.

Key Responsibilities: 

General Corporate Accounting and Global Close

• Complete monthly BvA analysis and book appropriate accruals across cost of sales and professional fee accounts, working closely with FP&A teams to ensure alignment and completeness of the ledgers.
• Prepare detailed balance sheet and other account reconciliations, ensuring they are properly explained and fully supported in accordance with US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance requirements.

Compliance and Control:

• Ensure strict compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements in all accounting and reconciliation activities.
• Assist in the preparation of timely monthly results and quarterly reporting packages, including variance analyses and presentations to senior management.

Process Improvement & Projects:

• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives, seeking opportunities to enhance efficiency and optimize workflows through automation.
• Support complex business transactions, system implementations/upgrades, and other ad hoc requests and special projects.
• Demonstrate awareness of and eagerness to adopt emerging accounting technologies, including AI and automation tools, to drive efficiency and enhance analytical capabilities.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Establish and maintain strong, collaborative business partnerships with members of the global finance organization and key cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., FP&A, Tax, Legal, IT).
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team processes and procedures to reduce the time to close and enhance management's financial understanding.

About You

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting; ACCA, ACA, CPA or equivalent qualification.
• Minimum of 3+ years of PQE or 5+ years progressive finance/accounting experience.
• Proven experience with consolidated financial statements, US GAAP, and SOX reporting is essential.
• Experience working at the corporate level for publicly-traded companies.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and financial analysis skills, with a track record of providing decision support and financial leadership.
• Ability to work independently and effectively manage time and priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
• Experience in troubleshooting and analyzing ERP transactional detail (Netsuite experience is a plus).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for different audiences.

Preferred

• A mix of public and private accounting experience.
• Experience dealing with multiple currencies and foreign exchange (FX) impacts, including currency translations.
• Previous experience with system implementations and consolidation systems.
• Demonstrated experience with process improvement methodologies.

Life at Teads

At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.

As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:

• We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
• As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
• Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.