Accounting Associate

About Purple Strategies 

Purple Strategies is a corporate reputation and strategy firm that combines the creativity and discipline of brand communications with the speed and strategy of political campaigns to help leverage or reduce pressure on a business, brand or issue. We help build and defend reputation and brand value and serve Fortune 500 companies, associations, nonprofits and some of the most recognizable brands in the world. 

Purple helps the world’s most important organizations address their toughest challenges. We operate in a highly collaborative environment and apply integrated, team-based approaches to help clients: 

• ANTICIPATE reputation challenges and opportunities; 

• COMPEL change through business actions and transformation; and 

• NAVIGATE reputation issues, acute crises, key business choices and policy/regulatory changes to inform decision-making. 

About the Role 

The Accounting Associate is a member of the finance team who works under the direction of the finance team to keep day-to-day accounting operations running smoothly and accurately. The ideal candidate is an organized, critical thinker with strong Excel skills, a proactive mindset, and a process-oriented, analytical approach to improving accuracy and efficiency. 

This is a full-time position. The Accounting Associate joins a current two-person team comprised of a Senior Director of Finance and Accounting and a Revenue Accountant. 

Responsibilities  

• Support core accounting processes, including invoicing, journal entries, general ledger entries, and account reconciliations  

• Assist with the month-end close process (e.g., preparing schedules, reconciling accounts, and supporting reporting deliverables)  

• Perform day-to-day Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable tasks, including general issue resolution and timely follow-up  

• Assist with payroll processing and related recordkeeping 

• Partner with internal teams to ensure accurate coding, documentation, and timely processing of invoices and payments  

• Assist with audit and compliance support, including preparing schedules and gathering documentation for auditor requests   

• Help maintain organized documentation for core accounting processes  

• Use Excel to organize and validate data sets (e.g., pivots, lookups, embedded formulas) and flag discrepancies; support efforts to automate and streamline recurring processes