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Paraform is an AI-powered recruiting marketplace connecting companies with specialized recruiters and AI agents. The company is growing rapidly (8x revenue growth last year) and is backed by top-tier investors including Scale, Felicis, and founders from YouTube, Instacart, and Canva.
You will own day-to-day accounting operations for this fast-growing marketplace, reporting to the Senior Manager of Accounting and working closely with the VP Finance and FP&A team. This is a hands-on role where you'll develop deep expertise in marketplace financial operations.
Key responsibilities:
• Accounts Payable: Process recruiter payouts and vendor bills, review expense reports and reimbursements against policy, and ensure approvals follow signatory and spend rules.
• Accounts Receivable: Prepare client invoices for placements, apply cash, track aging, and manage collections follow-up on overdue accounts.
• Placement Adjustments: Process refunds, credits, and recruiter clawbacks for fired, rescinded, and reneged offers in accordance with contract terms.
• Monthly Close: Prepare journal entries, accruals, and supporting schedules; reconcile Stripe activity (payouts, fees, refunds) to the general ledger; complete assigned balance sheet reconciliations.
• Audit & Tax Support: Organize and pull documentation for auditor requests and tax/payroll-related inquiries.
• Process Improvement: Document existing processes and identify opportunities to automate manual steps. The company uses AI heavily and expects finance to leverage it as well.
You'll learn how a marketplace operates financially, including placement invoicing, recruiter payouts through Stripe, clawbacks, and refunds on rescinded offers.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 1–3 years of accounting experience, ideally at a startup or in public accounting
• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• Hands-on experience with both AP and AR: payment processing, cash application, and collections follow-up
• Strong understanding of debits, credits, accruals, and reconciliations; ability to troubleshoot balance discrepancies
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills, comfortable with large transaction exports and pivot tables
• Organized, reliable, and able to meet close deadlines
• Bonus: marketplace or usage-based business experience; CPA eligibility or in-progress CPA track
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE:
• 1–2 years in a startup accounting role or Big 4/regional audit experience, seeking to own a process end-to-end
• Stripe experience: payments, payouts, and fee reconciliation to the GL
• On a CPA track
