Staff Accountant, Financial Operations

Paraform • San Francisco, CA

6d • $110,000 - $130,000

About The Position

We're hiring a Staff Accountant, Financial Operations person to own the day-to-day accounting at a fast-growing marketplace. You'll run accounts payable end to end, support invoicing and collections, and own part of the monthly close. You'll report to our Senior Manager, Accounting and work closely with our VP Finance and FP&A. You'll learn how a marketplace works financially: placement invoicing, recruiter payouts through Stripe, clawbacks and refunds on rescinded offers.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.
• Has done AP and AR: processed payments, applied cash, followed up on overdue invoices.
• Knows debits and credits, accruals and reconciliations. Can explain why a balance is off.
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets. Comfortable with large transaction exports and pivot tables.
• Organized. Hits close deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• A marketplace or usage-based business
• CPA eligible or in progress
• 1–2 years in a startup accounting role or Big 4 / regional audit, wants to own a process end to end
• Stripe experience: payments, payouts, fee reconciliation to the GL
• CPA-track

Responsibilities

• Own accounts payable. Process recruiter payouts and vendor bills, review expense reports and reimbursements against policy, and confirm approvals follow our signatory and spend rules.
• Support accounts receivable. Prepare client invoices for placements, apply cash, track aging, and run collections follow-up on overdue accounts.
• Handle placement adjustments. Process refunds, credits, and recruiter clawbacks for fired, rescinded, and reneged offers against contract terms.
• Own your part of the close. Prepare journal entries, accruals, and supporting schedules; reconcile Stripe activity (payouts, fees, refunds) to the GL; complete assigned balance sheet reconciliations on the close calendar.
• Support audit and tax. Pull and organize support for our auditors' request list and for tax and payroll-related requests.
• Document and improve. Document the process and automate the manual steps. We use AI heavily and expect finance to as well.

What This Job Offers

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