Best suited to candidates with 1-3 years of accounting experience working in corporate environments with a focus on expense management and financial analysis.
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Original posting from Grabagun via Ashby
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Staff Accountant – OPEX
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Location: On-Site in North Dallas
Compensation: $65K to $75K
Citizenship Requirements: U.S. Citizens and Green Card Holders only.
Why this role matters
As GrabAGun continues to scale, maintaining accurate and actionable visibility into operating expenses is critical to the company's financial health and decision-making.
The Staff Accountant – OPEX will support the accounting team with a primary focus on operating expenses, including expense classification, accruals, reconciliations, and departmental spend analysis. This role will help ensure expenses are recorded accurately, properly supported, and reported in a timely manner.
This is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional looking to build a strong foundation in corporate accounting while gaining exposure to financial analysis, month-end closing, and cross-functional business operations.
What you'll do every day
- Review and record operating expenses to ensure transactions are accurately coded, classified, and assigned to the appropriate department.
- Prepare and post routine journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, amortization, and recurring expenses.
- Support the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes by completing assigned OPEX-related activities accurately and on schedule.
- Reconcile operating expense general ledger accounts and research discrepancies or unusual activity.
- Review AP invoices and vendor expenses for appropriate account coding, departmental allocation, and supporting documentation.
- Prepare monthly accruals for expenses incurred but not yet invoiced.
- Maintain and reconcile prepaid expense schedules and supporting documentation.
- Analyze departmental spending and assist with budget-to-actual and period-over-period variance analysis.
- Prepare OPEX reports, schedules, and supporting workpapers for management review.
- Assist with corporate card and employee expense reconciliation.
- Partner with Accounts Payable, Payroll, HR, Procurement, and department managers to resolve expense-related questions and discrepancies.
- Monitor recurring expenses and identify unusual or unexpected changes in vendor and departmental spending.
- Assist with maintaining accurate accounting documentation and supporting schedules.
- Identify opportunities to improve expense coding, reporting, reconciliation, and accounting processes.
- Support audits, special projects, and other accounting initiatives as assigned.
What you bring
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 1-3 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Solid understanding of basic accounting principles and U.S. GAAP.
- Experience with journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close activities.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage recurring deadlines.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, lookups, sorting, filtering, and basic data analysis.
- Experience working within an ERP or accounting system; NetSuite experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with accounting, finance, and operational teams.
Bonus if you have
- Experience with OPEX accounting or expense management.
- Experience in eCommerce, retail, distribution, or other high-volume operating environments.
- Experience with corporate cards or employee expense programs.
- Experience analyzing departmental spending or budget-to-actual variances.
- Exposure to AP, purchasing, procurement, or vendor management processes.
- NetSuite experience.
- CPA coursework or progress toward a CPA.
What success looks like
Operating expenses are accurately recorded, properly classified, and reconciled each month. Accruals and prepaid expenses are completed accurately and on time. Departmental spending is clearly reported, unusual variances are identified and investigated, and accounting records are consistently supported.
Success in this role means becoming a dependable accounting resource who takes ownership of OPEX activities, works effectively with departments across the business, and develops the skills to take on greater accounting responsibility over time.
Ready to grow your accounting career?
Send us your resume and show us how you bring accuracy, accountability, analytical thinking, and a continuous improvement mindset to a fast-growing business.
Source: Grabagun careers (Ashby)