Accounting Product Consultant

Trayd • Manhattan, IL

4d • $105,000 - $125,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Trayd is building the operating system for commercial construction, focusing on payroll, compliance, and back-office workflows. The company aims to modernize the construction industry's software, which is often outdated and manual. Trayd helps subcontractors manage payroll, workers, and their businesses efficiently. The company is based in New York and is backed by Y Combinator.

Requirements

• Real accounting fluency. You can read an income statement, trace a job cost report, and tell whether two systems agree, without being walked through it.
• Comfort proving your own work wrong. Every implementation includes an attestation step where you demonstrate that Trayd’s numbers match the customer’s legacy system exactly. Finding the discrepancy before the customer does is the job.
• Enough systems aptitude to trust tooling but verify output. You’ll run a data extraction and import pipeline daily. You do not need to build it. You do need to know when it produced something wrong.
• The judgment to tell a configuration decision from a genuine product gap, and to write the gap up cleanly enough that Engineering can act on it.
• Comfort being the technical voice with a controller or CFO who has run their books the same way for fifteen years.
• Genuine interest in going deep on one part of the product rather than broad across all of it.
• Two or more years in accounting, from public accounting, industry, or a mix. Audit, assurance, or general ledger backgrounds all work.
• Comfortable owning a deliverable with a real deadline and real consequences when it is wrong.
• Organized enough to run several implementations in parallel without losing track of what’s open.
• Comfortable being the technical voice in the room, including in front of a client’s senior stakeholders.
• Enough technical judgment to write an actual bug report, not just describe symptoms.
• NYC-based or ready to relocate quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Construction accounting exposure: WIP, percentage of completion, job costing, schedules of values, payment applications, AIA billing. We will teach this if you have the accounting fundamentals, so treat it as a plus and not a bar.
• CPA, or CPA-eligible and working toward it.
• Hands-on experience with Foundation, Sage 300, CF Data, Viewpoint, or QuickBooks in a construction context.
• Comfort with AI tools for turning repeat questions into documentation and skill content.

Responsibilities

• Own accounting implementations end to end: historical data migration, income statement and job cost attestation, revenue tracking setup, billing configuration, WIP reporting, and month-end flows.
• Run the extraction and import pipeline yourself, on customer source systems.
• Train the customer’s accounting team through their first real close on Trayd.
• Carry two to three concurrent implementations to start, growing as the tooling improves.
• Develop a mastery of Trayd’s product offerings, business model, services, emerging technologies, and Customer Success best practices.
• Be the default answer for statement accounting questions across every Trayd account, regardless of tier.
• Stay available after an account graduates as the accounting expert a CSM or Account Manager brings back in.
• Own the statement accounting queue in our support tooling.
• Turn recurring questions into documentation, configuration templates, and AI skill content, so the answer doesn’t have to come from you personally every time.
• Flag patterns across accounts, not just one-off tickets, to Product and R&D as genuine roadmap input. You will see the same gap across five customers before anyone else does.
• Partner with CSMs and Account Managers on their accounts without taking over the relationship. They own the client, you own the domain.
• Write Engineering a report they can act on when something in the pipeline turns out to be an actual bug.
• Coordinate with the Implementation team on the payroll side of the same customer.

Benefits

• Equity
• Equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcoming people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed