Senior Accountant

Speak • San Francisco, CA

17d

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Accountant to serve as the operational core of the Finance team in San Francisco. You'll own the day-to-day accounting while continuously improving how we work. This is a hands-on role with room to grow as Speak scales.
We’re especially excited about candidates who are AI-native and fluent in frontier tech environments. You proactively explore new tools, can quickly learn unfamiliar systems, and enjoy tightening integrations and automations to make workflows faster, cleaner, and more scalable.
You're someone who stays on top of multiple workstreams without things slipping, surfaces issues before they become problems, and genuinely enjoys figuring out how to make processes more robust.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of accounting experience, preferably at a high-growth tech startup
• Experience with full-cycle P2P management and P2P/T&E tools (Ramp, Tipalti or similar)
• Strong working knowledge of ERPs: AP module, journal entries, fixed assets, and reconciliations
• Experience with payroll software, recording payroll journal entries and reconciling payroll-related accounts
• Solid understanding of US GAAP
• Able to manage multiple workflows simultaneously without things falling through the cracks
• Sharp eye for discrepancies in AP, payroll, or expense data
• Experience preparing reconciliation schedules and flux analyses
• Ability to quickly understand workflows end-to-end and grasp how systems integrate with each other

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a globally distributed team and multi-entity environment
• Experience with global creator payment management
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or actively pursuing CPA preferred
• Experience supporting external (Big 4) audits

Responsibilities

• Own P2P in Ramp (vendor onboarding support, invoice processing, coding, policy enforcement)
• Run day-to-day T&E (cards, reimbursements, employee support)
• Own contractor payments in Deel end-to-end (routing, approvals, onboarding/offboarding coordination)
• Manage global creator payouts (onboarding, invoices, payment cycles)
• Own key parts of the 5-business-day close in Campfire (recons, variance investigation, clean tool-to-ERP sync)
• Maintain transaction integrity across the finance stack and fix integration breaks
• Support audit requests with clear schedules, support, and process documentation
• Improve workflows with an AI-native mindset (automation, tighter integrations, better controls)
• Support ad hoc finance ops projects as needed

Benefits

• Join a fantastic, tight-knit team at the right time: we're growing very quickly, we've most recently raised our Series C from some of the top investors in the valley, and we've achieved product-market fit in our initial markets. You'd join at a magical time when a single person could significantly change the course of the company.
• Do your life's work with people you’ll love working with: we care strongly about our craft and want every person at Speak to feel like they're growing every day. We believe in the idea that working with people you both enjoy and have respect for makes everything better. We hire thoughtfully and only work with people we admire deeply.
• Global in nature: We're live in over 40 countries and launching in a number of new markets soon. We have dedicated offices in San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, and Tokyo, and you’ll have the opportunity to talk to users in each of these regions on a regular basis as well as travel.
• Impact people's lives in a major way: Learning a language is one of the single most life-changing skills one can learn, and right now 99% of people never achieve their goal because the process is broken. We’re helping millions of people achieve their goals and improve their lives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level