Accounting Director
US$170,000 – US$200,000 / yr base salary
Posted 15 Oct 2026
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- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$170,000 – US$200,000 / yr |
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CertificationsCertified Public Accountant
What We Do
Wagmo is a modern pet healthcare company built around how pet parents actually care for their pets. We partner with employers to provide a complete approach to pet and pet-parent wellbeing, from preventive wellness plans and emergency coverage to 24/7 pet telehealth guidance. Our purpose is to unlock every pet parent's potential to provide extraordinary care, and we do it by bringing the same intentionality to pet benefits that the best employers bring to human healthcare. Founded in 2017 and female-founded, Wagmo is headquartered in New York City and trusted by leading employers nationwide.
What's Important to Us
Our mission shapes everything we build and how we work together. We take fearless ownership of outcomes, collaborate with radical candor, and are always driven by the customers and pet parents who trust us. We think critically, follow through relentlessly, and find the extra 10% that turns good work into exceptional work. We keep it weird because the obvious answer is rarely the most interesting one. Our values aren't aspirational. We interview for them and hold each other accountable to them. If what you've read so far resonates with you and you want to be part of a team where every person makes the company meaningfully better, we'd love to hear from you.
About The Role
We are hiring an Accounting Director to own our financial reporting and lead an accounting function that is fast, accurate, and audit-ready. You will run the monthly financial close, own the annual audit, and build the controls that let us scale effectively. This role also optimizes our general ledger and brings AI proactively into how accounting gets done. It offers the opportunity to partner with key business owners across Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Success. This role will report to our VP Finance. Our clients, investors, and auditors rely on our numbers. You will make sure they can trust them.
Location: This is a hybrid role based in NYC; candidates must be willing and able to work in-office three days per week.
Core Responsibilities
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Own the financial close and consolidated reporting: Run the monthly, quarterly, and annual close. Make it faster and cleaner each quarter, with few post-close adjustments.
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Make accounting AI-first: Build and run a roadmap for using AI and automation in reconciliations, anomaly detection, and control testing. Your goal is to have AI in at least half of our accounting processes by the end of your first year.
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Strengthen our general ledger: Clean up and optimize our books in QuickBooks, then run the selection of the ERP that will carry us through our next stage of growth.