Senior Manager, Accounting & Reporting

About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family.

It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable.

Hungryroot is a distributed team of top talent across 28+ U.S. states. While we have a headquarters in New York City, our remote-first culture emphasizes collaboration, team-building, and flexibility. Expect regular virtual team events, strong ownership and accountability, and an annual company retreat.

About the Role

Hungryroot is looking for a motivated Senior Manager, Accounting and Reporting to help lead our rapidly evolving Accounting function. This person will direct GAAP position documentation, complex areas of the close cycle, and the continued buildout of a world class accounting and financial reporting function. This is a high-leverage role grounded in financial reporting and technical accounting. This role will add depth in all areas of Controllership, support the external audit relationship, accelerate the transformation of the Controllership organization to embrace the function’s AI charter, and support the Controller as the department's utility player.

As an integral part of a close-knit Finance & Accounting team, the ideal candidate has a deep desire to learn, a willingness to take ownership and accountability of workflows and initiatives, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is excited to make an impact at a mission-driven company.

Responsibilities

Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Prepare audit- and external-ready technical memos, analyses, and accounting policy in accordance with FASB and SEC requirements
• Support the ongoing evolution of the reporting function resulting in accurate and complete GAAP-based results feeding congruent monthly, quarterly, and annual investor, lender, and management reporting on par with standard public company reporting and disclosure requirements
• Serve as a primary point of contact for our external audit via financial statement preparation and technical positions/policies as well as the ongoing management and support of the audit timeline

Controllership Transformation

• Lead detailed reviews of Controllership processes to strengthen accuracy and completeness across the financial statements and disclosures
• Apply an analytical and technical lens to establish processes and procedures supporting the efficiency and effectiveness of the close cycle, accurate and complete interpretation of disclosure and presentation implications, and an internal controls based framework
• Leverage existing AI toolset to drive insights into financial performance and deliver efficiencies to the Controllership function through the working AI Charter
• Own the highly technical and confidential areas of the close, including equity compensation, payroll, bonus, vendor rebates, capitalized software, leases, and deferred revenue and revenue recognition, with the goal of accelerating the overall close timeline

Qualifications

• CPA required
• 6+ years of progressive experience, with a blend of external audit, financial reporting, technical accounting, and controllership experience preferred
• Demonstrated depth in ASC 606, ASC 718, ASC 842, and ASC 350-40 amongst all other areas of applicable FASB and SEC guidance; exhibits comfort independently researching and documenting complex accounting treatment
• Strong systems and data fluency — NetSuite (or comparable large ERP) and advanced Excel required
• Operates with limited direction, handles confidential matters, and moves between technical depth and hands-on close execution
• Proven track record with organizational and time management skills
• Able to present to any audience and be trusted as the independent point of contact for the Accounting function within the Finance organization
• Experience incorporating Claude or other AI tools into processes.

Preferred

• Big 4 or national firm audit foundation strongly preferred, with industry experience.
• Public company or IPO-readiness exposure (SOX/controls design, disclosure) preferred
• E-commerce, CPG, DTC industry experience

Perks & Benefits

• Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
• Equity
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Universal paid parental leave
• Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• 401k with match
• A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup

Expected Salary Range:
$134,000-$168,000 USD

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The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.