About Shippo

At Shippo, our vision is bold and clear: we are the shipping layer of the internet. Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.

As a remote-first and globally distributed team, we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.

Your impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.

How we will deliver success together:

Shippo’s Finance team is seeking a Senior Manager of Accounting to lead and scale core operational accounting processes across payroll, equity administration, benefits, accounts payable, reimbursements, operating expenses, and tax.

The Senior Manager, Accounting is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, leading the operational accounting team, and implementing reliable processes that support Shippo’s growth.

The scope of this role includes ownership of key month-end close workflows, driving consistency across accounting operations, managing critical financial systems such as Ramp and Netsuite, and partnering cross-functionally with People Ops, Strategic Finance, Legal, and external auditors and advisors.

Success will be measured through close accuracy and timeliness, operational efficiency, clarity of process ownership, quality of documentation, control strength, and overall team development.

Success criteria:

This candidate will own the close calendar, with an eye to accelerating the month-end close process and increasing accuracy of the results

As we migrate our key hire-to-pay and procure-to-pay systems, this candidate will drive efficiency with these new tools by revising our AP, payroll, equity, and Opex processes with the specific DRIs on the accounting team (currently a team of 6)

The ideal candidate will drive:

Faster audit completion (for both group consolidated and local statutory audits)

increased efficiency through process automation and workflow redesign

High team engagement, clear ownership, and reduced operational friction

Shipping & handling responsibilities

• Lead operational accounting functions including payroll accounting, benefits, 401(k) accounting and administration, equity administration, accounts payable, expense reimbursements, and operating expense accounting
• Own the month-end close for assigned areas, ensuring accurate, timely, and GAAP-compliant reporting
• Develop and maintain accounting policies, documentation, reconciliations, and review procedures across operational areas, with a focus on ensuring timely high-risk account reconciliations
• Coordinate with external tax advisors to support corporate tax compliance and audit inquiries
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and system enhancements to strengthen accounting workflows
• Lead and mentor a high-performing operational accounting team, creating clarity around ownership, expectations, and development paths
• Collaborate cross-functionally with FP&A, Legal, and department leaders to ensure aligned budgeting, spend visibility, and operational accuracy

Your shipping requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience with increasing leadership responsibilities
• Strong experience across operational accounting areas (e.g., payroll, benefits, equity, AP and operating expenses, and tax)
• Deep understanding of U.S. GAAP and operational accounting best practices, CPA strongly preferred
• Experience using Ramp for AP, expense management, and corporate card administration. Experience using Ramp for procurement management a plus
• Experience with Netsuite or comparable ERP systems
• Demonstrated ability to build scalable accounting processes in a high-growth environment
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across teams
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop accounting professionals at multiple levels

What is in the Shippo Package?

• Healthcare coverage for medical, dental, and vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents). Pets coverage is also available!
• Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy & flexible working hours
• One week-long company wide winter slow down 
• 3 Volunteer Days Off (VTOs)
• WFH stipend to set up your home office
• Charity donation match up to $100
• Dedicated programs, coaching, tools, and resources for your professional and career growth as well as an individual learning stipend for your personal and focused growth
• Fun team in person time through our Shippos Everywhere program which includes regular team and company off-sites throughout the year as well as local Shippos gatherings

Compensation

Our Compensation Shippolicy:

We believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min is $147k to a max $199k annual salary (we tend to anchor our offers at the mid point $173k. Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.

Sail through the process:

Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at accommodations@goshippo.com

Shippos in the wild:

Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.

For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Remote.com (all Shippo perks still apply - including equity!). What we want to emphasize is that you can be successful at Shippo regardless of location.