Accountant / Finance (Senior/Lead)

Back to jobsNewAccountant / Finance (Senior/Lead)Hybrid, Irvine, California, United StatesApplyWhat's the one game you couldn't put down? The game that connected you with friends, and made you feel like you belonged? If a game has ever defined a chapter of your life, then you already know the spark we’re chasing. Our mission is to ignite that same feeling for players; the thrill of competition, the joy of community, and the belonging of finding your own corner of a larger world.   Great games begin with people who dare to dream big. If that sounds exciting, you might be exactly who we’re looking for.   Bonfire is a group of experienced and ambitious developers, proud to be creating our first original IP: Arkheron. It is a fast-paced, competitive PVP game set in a surreal dark fantasy world where 15 teams of three battle their way up the Tower. In a world built from memories, you will loot powerful items to create and adapt a unique build-out that will change your strategy and combat experience with every Ascension. The best way to understand our People Experience team is in their own words — here’s how they describe their work. On the People Experience team, people are at the heart of everything we do, and our team is dedicated to finding extraordinary talent and creating an environment and culture they can thrive in. Whether a potential candidate, team member or a new contract partner, we are passionate about creating a welcoming and inclusive community that empowers each individual to do their best work and feel connected. As a diverse team of experts with a deep commitment to exceptional experiences, we create a tailored employee journey that begins at onboarding and lasts throughout your entire career at Bonfire and beyond. From fostering your growth and development to offering robust benefits that provide support to you and your family, we’re the scaffolding that amazing teams and great games are built on.   We're looking for a strategic Finance and Accounting leader to join our Operations group to define Bonfire’s long-term approach to revenue, expense recognition, and reporting as our business model evolves. This isn't a role about executing the close and moving on. It's about setting the direction other teams build on, so that every close, every forecast, and every decision leadership makes is grounded in numbers people can trust. Your work will shape how the whole studio understands its own performance, and how confidently we act on what we learn. If you want real ownership over how that story gets told, and want to build the systems and judgment other people lean on to tell it well, this role was built for you.   YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE BY: Setting the company's revenue recognition policy and methodology under ASC 606 (including box sales, microtransactions, and virtual currency), and partnering with the studio to keep the data behind it accurate and timely Leading the close process end-to-end, directing an external accounting team and AP/AR resources, while building the judgment and quality bar they operate against Owning platform and publisher reporting, including reconciling statements from Sony, Microsoft, Valve, and PC cafés, and using that visibility for crucial internal reporting, resolving systemic discrepancies, and improving royalty/licensing reporting to our partners Leading cross-functional alignment with business, publishing, analytics, and live ops so that we have a cohesive structure for financial data and analytics across the studio Owning treasury strategy and execution, including banking controls, liquidity management, excess cash investment, and corporate insurance strategy, with authority to set policy, not just execute it Leading ERP transformation, owning the evaluation, business case, and roadmap for our next accounting systems, and building the automation strategy that will scale with the business for years, not just the next close Leading cross-functional alignment with business, publishing,...