Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clair is on a mission to create financial freedom for America's workers by providing a digital banking platform. They are seeking a detail-oriented Accounting Manager to oversee accounting operations, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting.
Responsibilities
- Execute core components of the monthly close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Prepare and post journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules
- Review balance sheet accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Analyze financial statement fluctuations and variances to prior periods
- Utilize and manage offshore resources for efficiency
- Streamlining and improving the speed and accuracy of the overall close process
- Prepare the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements (includes intercompany and consolidations)
- Assist in maintaining Month-end close review decks
- Support audit requirements by preparing documentation and responding to inquiries
- Help maintain compliance with GAAP and other relevant accounting standards
- Work with external tax preparers by providing supporting schedules for tax filings and other requests, as well as assistance with other regulatory requirements
- Document accounting policies and procedures to ensure consistent application
- Assist with other ad-hoc projects that may include preparing technical accounting memos
- Review and process vendor invoices, ensuring proper coding and approvals
- Own and ensure adoption of the procurement policy
- Ensure procurement tool approvals are provided timely
- Ensure vendor payments and reimbursements are coded appropriately
- Assist Finance with cash flow forecasting and monitoring
- Reconcile bank accounts on a regular basis
- Process and record wire transfers and other banking transactions
- Support treasury operations, as needed
- Identify opportunities to automate and streamline processes
- Support implementation and optimization of new tools (e.g., ERPs)
- Create and maintain documentation for accounting processes and controls
- Assist in developing scalable processes to support company growth
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting (required)
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including Big Four (or large public accounting) audit experience
- In-house accounting experience as a lead/owner at a growth-stage company on a lean team
- A track record of owning balance-sheet accounting independently and supporting or leading external audits
- Experience writing technical accounting memos (e.g., ASC 606, leases, equity)
- Advanced Excel skills (e.g., SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, INDEX/MATCH, etc.)
- Fluent in Google Suite
- Active CPA (preferred)
- Intercompany / multi-entity consolidation experience
- Consumer fintech, payments, earned wage access, lending, or embedded finance exposure (or early-stage SaaS)
- Experience with modern procurement tools (e.g., Ramp, Brex, etc.)
- Experience with modern ERPs and reporting tools (e.g., QBO, NetSuite, Campfire, Pigment, Anaplan, etc.)
- Data & SQL tool experience a plus (e.g., Tableau, Snowflake)
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
- Fully-paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
- Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
- Work from home setup allowance
- Access to your earnings every day on Clair
- Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance
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