Senior accountant

🏢 Watershed · 📍 Mexico City · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

We are looking for a hands-on, tech-forward Senior Accountant to own key pillars of our Corporate General Ledger, month-end financial close, and financial reporting engine.

This is a US GAAP-based role supporting our global, consolidated reporting; knowledge of Mexican statutory/monthly reporting requirements or UK GAAP is a plus, not a requirement.

In this role, you will take ownership of critical areas of our balance sheet and P&L. Beyond standard corporate accounting, you will own the complex accounting for our carbon credits offerings to ensure audit-ready accuracy and tracking.

This is a build-and-scale role for someone who thrives in complexity and cares deeply about accuracy. You will partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Sales, Accounting Systems, and Payroll to turn evolving business needs into scalable, audit-ready accounting frameworks.

We are heavily focused on close acceleration and modernizing our accounting operations. You will partner with our team to help evaluate, test, and implement AI tools, data automation, and modern workflows to transition manual close mechanics into automated subledgers while maintaining an audit-ready standard.

What You’ll Do

Core GL Close, Financial Reporting & Flux Analysis

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Watershed Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating candidates on extreme data rigor applied to climate impact, balancing uncompromising technical depth with entrepreneurial pace.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Hand-waving through carbon accounting methodologies or regulatory frameworks (e.g., CSRD, SEC rules).
2. Relying on slow, enterprise-bloated processes rather than iterative MVP launches.
3. Lack of cross-functional empathy between engineering, product, and sustainability teams.

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I build hyper-scalable data engines that turn complex regulatory mandates into high-velocity enterprise products.

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