Quality Assurance Specialist

YipitData; India; Remote; INR 8,30,000 - 12,45,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative data and analytics firm is seeking a Data QA Specialist to join its dynamic team in India. This fully remote role involves managing data cleaning and quality assurance processes for a rapidly growing product. You will play a crucial role in transforming raw financial data into accurate business insights, working closely with a dedicated team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data analysis, exceptional attention to detail, and experience with U.S. accounting practices. Join a company that values mastery and ownership, and offers opportunities for growth and advancement in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Vacation Time

Medical Insurance

Parental Leave

Learning Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a data or quality assurance analyst.
• Experience with U.S. accounting practices as an A/P bookkeeper or similar.

Responsibilities

• Manually review and update raw financial transaction data.
• Verify and correct financial transaction data based on U.S. accounting rules.

Skills

Data Analysis

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting

Relevant Certifications (e.g., CPA)

Tools

Google Sheets

Netsuite

Quickbooks

Sage

Xero

Job description

YipitData is the market-leading data and analytics firm. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights across industries, including consumer brands, technology, software, and healthcare.

Our insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data that many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B, further accelerating our growth and market impact.

We have been recognized multiple times as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. As a fast-growing company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners, YipitData is driven by a people-first culture rooted in mastery, ownership, and transparency.

With offices in New York, Austin, Miami, Denver, Mountain View, Seattle, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Singapore, we continue to expand our reach and impact across global markets.

About the Role:

Our newest product offers insights on software companies and is growing rapidly. We are seeking a Quality Assurance Specialist [Official Title: Data QA Specialist] to join our Data Product team in India to manage a large portion of the data cleaning and quality assurance processes for this new product. The Data QA Specialist will be responsible for manually reviewing large datasets of raw financial transaction spend data and helping us transform it into accurate business expense insights. You will verify and make corrections to financial transaction data based on U.S. accounting rules, and you’ll complete your work primarily using tabular data in our proprietary software. This cleaned data will then be used to build insights products in our fastest-growing initiatives. This position offers the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the growth of our company. Exceptional employees may have the opportunity to be promoted and manage a team of other Data QA Specialists.

This is a fully remote role based in India.

In general, we expect some overlap with U.S. work hours, and we require greater flexibility (i.e., more overlap) during the first few weeks of training and onboarding. More details on work-hour expectations will be shared during the recruiting process.

We expect hires to start in the position on June 16, 2025.

As Our Data QA Specialist, You Will:

• Own manually reviewing and updating raw financial transaction spend data and invoices to help transform it into an accurate representation of business expense insights
• Verify and make corrections to financial transaction data following U.S. accounting rules, which will include manually adjusting data by:
• Thoroughly reviewing expense trends over time, across many vendors and different accounting record types
• Deduplicating overlapping transactions such as vendor bill and journal entries and selecting the correct record
• Adjusting amortization dates of expenses
• Inferring amortization dates of expenses, if they are not clear
• Verifying and tagging the correct vendor for each transaction
• Document repeated data issues and work with other Data and Engineering teams to improve our data quality assurance processes
• Primarily complete your work using Google Sheets and our proprietary software
• Collaborate closely with our U.S.-based Data Product team every day
• Have the opportunity to be promoted to manage a team of other Data QA Specialists

You Are Likely to Succeed If:

• You have 2+ years of experience as a data or quality assurance analyst
• You have at least 1 year of full-time work experience as an A/P bookkeeper, junior accountant, Accounts Payables (A/P) clerk, or in a similar position using U.S. accounting practices
• You have experience with Netsuite, Sage, Quickbooks, Xero (or similar ERP software)
• You have exceptional attention to detail
• You have experience working with large datasets
• You have experience managing multiple processes in parallel
• You like to solve problems and puzzles
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with vendors and internal teams across time zones and cultures

What We Offer:

Our compensation package includes comprehensive benefits, perks, and a competitive salary:

• We care about your personal life and we mean it. We offer vacation time, medical insurance, parental leave, learning reimbursement, and more!
• Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust.
• The annual salary for this position is anticipated to be ₹8,30,000 - 12,45,000 (INR). The final offer may be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal team benchmarks.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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Thank you for your interest in the role. Please review the below questions and answer them using your best judgment.Prescreening Question 1)Our spend data includes information sourced from both accounting systems (e.g., Netsuite, QuickBooks) and bill pay systems (e.g., Bill.com, Brex). As a result, the same transaction will often appear two times or more, once from each system. Our goal when cleaning data is to keep one row for each transaction. In these types of situations, we need to identify and remove duplicates from our final table.Imagine you are cleaning data and come across two transactions that have the same amount, vendor, and date, but one is from the accounting system and one is from the bill pay system. What is the best course of action? * Select...

Prescreening Question 2)When a company pays a vendor, they will often make one payment to the vendor upfront at the beginning of the service period. However, from an accounting perspective, they will recognize the cost of the expense over the entire service period. For example, if a company signs up for a subscription from a vendor for $12,000 for a one year period starting on January 1, the company might pay the vendor $12,000 upfront for annual service on January 1.From an accounting perspective, the company would then recognize $1,000 of the expense in their accounting system each month for the next twelve months, such that we would see a $1,000 record in January, $1,000 in February, etc. Oftentimes, accounting systems recognize the upfront payment as a “bill” record type, and each of the monthly accounting recognitions are “journalentry” record types. The monthly accounting recognitions of the expense are called “amortization.” However, these amortization expenses will often have errors or omissions.Linked below is a sample accounting statement from our data, where all lines relate to the same software purchase.After reviewing the linked table for question 2, what is incorrect about the table? * Select...

Date

Amount

Record Type

Account Name

Memo

2022-01-31

$30,720

bill

13850 Prepaid Expenses

Lever 1/31/22-1/30/23 Subscriptions HR

2022-02-28

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-03-31

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-04-30

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-05-31

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-06-30

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-07-31

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-09-30

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-10-31

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-11-30

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2022-12-31

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

2023-01-31

$2,560

66200 Subscriptions

Prescreening Question 3)It is June 30, 2024 and you are reviewing a company’s accounting statements and see a bill for productivity software that the company recently purchased. The bill was processed on June 6th, 2024, but it has a memo field (which is manually entered by a human) showing a software subscription start date of June 6th, 2023.What is the most likely start date of this software subscription? * Select...

Prescreening Question 4)When a company pays a vendor, it will typically update its accounting system by creating a record with two lines: one subtracts an amount from an “Accounts Payable” account, and one adds an amount to an “Expense” or “Prepaid Expenses” account. The company subtracts the amount from the “Accounts Payable” account as the record of no longer owing money for the bill, while the company adds the amount to the “Prepaid Expenses” account as the company’s record of having purchased the software.As you can see in the link below, this creates two lines for one instance of spend with a vendor. Usually, we only want one line for each instance of spend.Which line should we remove? * Select...

Date

Amount

Record ID

Account Name

Memo

2022-01-31

$20,500

24775

13850 Prepaid Expenses

Jira Subscriptions May 1 2022 - April 30 2023

2022-01-31

-$20,500

24775

2010 Accounts Payable

A/P for Jira Subscriptions

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