Remote Accounting Automation Engineer

Job Summary

The Remote Accounting Automation Engineer at Spotter Labs focuses on automating manual processes within accounting, finance, and related business systems to enhance accuracy, scalability, and manageability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze accounting and finance workflows to find automation opportunities.
• Create repeatable processes involving spreadsheets, reports, exports, and business systems.
• Enhance workflows for reconciliations, journal entries, reporting, month-end close, and exception management.
• Integrate operational data with accounting and finance processes.
• Develop scripts, dashboards, templates, workflows, and other automation tools.
• Collaborate with accounting, finance, operations, and technology teams.
• Design controls to ensure automation improves accuracy as well as speed.
• Document processes clearly for maintenance and future improvements.

Must haves

• Experience automating business processes using Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, Python, Power Query, VBA, Google Apps Script, Zapier, Make, Power Automate, APIs, or similar tools.
• Strong skills working with spreadsheets, reports, data exports, and system-generated files.
• Knowledge of accounting or finance processes such as reconciliations, journal entries, month-end close, AP, payroll, reporting, or financial analysis.
• Ability to analyze existing processes, identify bottlenecks or failure points, and design improved workflows.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work with non-technical teams and translate business problems into practical automation solutions.
• Strong documentation practices.
• Comfortable working in a fast-changing environment with evolving processes and systems.

Nice to haves

• Experience with ERP, banking, payroll, expense management, inventory, accounting, or reporting systems.
• Experience creating dashboards, reconciliation tools, exception reports, or workflow automations.
• Experience matching and reconciling data across multiple systems.
• Background in accounting, finance, data analytics, systems, engineering, operations, logistics, or transportation.

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