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title: 'Senior Financial Accountant at Traild'
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# Senior Financial Accountant at Traild

- **Company:** Traild
- **Location:** Melbourne, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware/d8d1d669-d268-4f42-a24e-7f371eafb310

## Job description

Traild: Who are we? Traild is a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teams operate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance. Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes. Traild exists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, and operate with confidence. With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey. This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation, control and security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run. Traild is building the infrastructure behind modern finance, protecting and powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions. If you’re excited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters, Traild is the place to do the most impactful work of your career. Hear how Traild customers speak about us here.

The Role: Want to be a part of our exciting growth journey? We are looking for a talented, passionate, and motivated individual to join our team as a Senior Financial Accountant, where you will play a critical role in keeping the accounting records behind our month-end close accurate, well maintained, and audit-ready.

You will own revenue recognition entries and core month-end journals, run the close, support tax and audit compliance, and lead a small offshore finance team.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical accounting judgement (particularly on revenue recognition), deep hands-on Xero experience, and a track record of setting standards for and reviewing the work of others.

## Key Responsibilities

Post revenue entries in Xero each period, applying the revenue recognition policy independently and flagging edge cases or judgement calls to the Finance Manager Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, and non-routine entries, with clear supporting documentation Run the month-end close checklist in Asana, following up outstanding items ahead of their deadlines and escalating blockers early so close completes by WD+6 Complete reconciliations and close tasks to a standard that requires minimal review, and contribute accurate analysis and variance commentary to management reporting Review journals and reconciliations prepared by less experienced team members, coaching through errors rather than quietly correcting them Oversee the fixed asset register and intercompany reconciliations across Traild entities, signing off the monthly reconciliation to the general ledger Act as the accounting-side reference point for our Tax and Compliance Specialist, and provide workpapers, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for the external audit Own data quality and integrity in Xero for the ledgers you are responsible for, and partner with our BI Analyst so clean, reconciled data flows into reporting Design scalable processes and document them as SOPs, embedding practical AI use cases where they cut manual effort out of the close Lead a small offshore finance team: set expectations for quality and turnaround, build technical capability through training and feedback, and run a regular cadence of one-to-ones across time zones

## Who You Are

CA/CPA qualified, or actively working towards it 5+ years in a technical accounting role, with strong exposure to revenue recognition, month-end close, and multi-entity reconciliations, ideally in a subscription or SaaS business Deep, hands-on Xero experience and advanced Excel or Sheets for reconciliations and close workpapers Experience reviewing the work of a more junior or offshore accountant, including setting process and quality standards, giving direct feedback, and knowing when to step in A working understanding of tax treatment and compliance, enough to act as the accounting-side reference point (preparing lodgements sits with our Tax and Compliance Specialist) Comfortable making and defending accounting treatment calls, and arriving at an escalation with a recommendation rather than only a question Methodical and self-managing, holding the same standard every close with little supervision, and able to explain accounting treatment clearly to non-technical colleagues Based in Australia, ideally Melbourne or Sydney, and comfortable working day to day with colleagues in another time zone Strong collaborator with an attitude embracing growth, hands-on execution, adaptability, and the scale-up spirit.

The Perks of Working at Traild Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options. Global team: we are growing across APAC, NA and EMEA and have team all across the world.

## About Traild

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Traild provides a cloud-based Accounts Payable automation platform with fraud prevention, helping businesses streamline financial operations and secure payments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; total funding AUD 50,000)
- **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, United States (with additional offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and London)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Accounts Payable (AP) automation and payment security
- **Target customers**: B2B; mid-market to enterprise companies across manufacturing, distribution, construction, healthcare, agriculture, energy, and mining
- **Mission / purpose**: “To protect you, without slowing you down” – unlocking effortless efficiency and seamless security for finance teams

## Products & Services
- **Traild Platform (Fuse, Fortify, Focus)**: A cloud-based Accounts Payable solution that deeply integrates with ERPs and accounting systems. It comprises three core capabilities:
  - **Fuse**: Real-time, two-way integration that is plug-and-play and intuitive.
  - **Fortify**: A fraud-prevention-first layer using network intelligence, behavioral analysis, and risk insights to detect errors and fraud.
  - **Focus**: AI-driven automation that handles routine finance tasks, surfaces insights, and highlights anomalies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – AUD 50,000 (across multiple seed rounds; last round in May 2021)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Investor names not publicly listed; grant funding received (source not specified)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Employee headcount: 193 (169.2% YoY growth)
  - Active job postings: 45 (up 136.8% YoY)
  - Global presence across North America, APAC, and EMEA
  - LinkedIn followers: 10,735 (+130.2% yearly)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fraud-prevention-first design**: Unlike competitors that prioritize speed, Traild embeds security at the core, protecting against scams and errors.
- **Deep ERP integration**: Seamless two-way integration that feels like a native extension of existing systems.
- **AI & Machine Learning**: Automates routine tasks and provides anomaly detection, giving finance leaders real-time visibility and control.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue global expansion (already in US, Australia, UK, Israel, Canada, and more)
- Scale the engineering and go-to-market teams (45 open roles as of early 2026)
- Enhance platform capabilities with AI-driven insights and fraud detection
- Deepen integrations with major ERPs and accounting systems

## Why Work Here
- **Flexibility**: Remote, hybrid, and flexible working options available
- **Global team**: Colleagues across 14 countries, offering a diverse and collaborative environment
- **Culture**: Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) of 82 in 2025, indicating high engagement
- **Hiring process**: Structured steps including screening call, technical assessment, and culture interview; final stage includes reference and background checks
- **Notable perks**: Emphasis on work-life balance, career growth, and a mission-driven team focused on protecting businesses

## Sources
1. [jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware](https://jobs.lever.co/traildsoftware)
2. [linkedin.com/company/traild](https://linkedin.com/company/traild)
3. [traildsoftware.com/about-us/](https://traildsoftware.com/about-us/)
4. [traildsoftware.com/careers/](https://traildsoftware.com/careers/)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/traild](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/traild)

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