Accounting Analyst - Remote

PayNearMe Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing fintech company that is transforming the payment experience for businesses. As an Accounting Analyst, you will play a crucial role in monitoring money movement activities and ensuring accurate settlements. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and enhance operational efficiency. With a focus on innovation and problem-solving, you'll contribute to exciting projects that improve accounting operations. Enjoy a supportive work culture with competitive benefits, including stock options and flexible time off, while making a real impact in the fintech landscape.

Benefits

Stock options

Communication expense stipend

WFH setup stipend

Reimbursement for peripheral equipment

Premium medical benefits

Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Paid parental bonding leave

Flexible Time Off

401k plan

In-person team meet-ups

Qualifications

• 2-5 years experience in accounting or finance roles.
• Knowledge of GAAP principles is preferred.
• Experience in Fintech Payments Company is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily money movement activities and provide insights.
• Assist with month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Collaborate with teams to automate workflows for cash operations.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or Related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

PayNearMe develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. Our modern and reliable platform lowers the total cost of payments by increasing acceptance rates, driving self-service and simplifying exceptions. We future-proof our clients’ payments roadmap by including all payment types and channels through a single contract and integration.

With PayNearMe, businesses can transform the outdated systems holding them back from achieving progress.

PayNearMe has over 200 employees, raised a $45M Series D round in June 2023, and processes billions in payments annually. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, our team is distributed across the U.S. Join us in solving our clients’ biggest payment challenges.

Job Description

As a fast-growing fintech company, we are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Accounting Analyst to join the team.This position will report to the Revenue Supervisor.

• Monitor daily money movement activities, systems, and triaging alerts to provide insights and recommendations to improve accuracy and efficiency of settlements and disbursements.
• Executing various daily, weekly reconciliation and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Monitor and apply customer collections and apply net settlements of customers’ AR when necessary.
• Assist with month-end and year-end closing activities, including invoicing customers for non-transactional revenue, journal entries, account reconciliations, and flux analysis.
• Investigate and address identified issues within the reconciliation system through problem-solving, seeking support from mentors and department experts as needed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate existing complex manual workflows and processes to optimize efficiency and controls of cash movement operations
• Contribute to the development and implementation of systems and processes to improve operational efficiency and accuracy of money movement.
• Participate in projects related to process improvements, implementation of financial systems or any other initiative aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of accounting operations.
• Ensure the right control and segregation of duties are embedded in the day to day process to mitigate risk.
• Create and maintain valuable relationships with data providers, clients, and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrate curiosity regarding product innovation opportunities.
• Develop familiarity with and competency in using internal tools and processes.
• Understand financial concepts and apply them to reconciliation errors.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years with Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or Related field
• Experience in Fintech Payments Company will be an advantage
• Loves learning new skills, tools, accounting operations and controls for money movement transactions.
• Basic foundational knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principal (GAAP)
• Advanced ability in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, SUMIF, Pivot Tables, VBA, etc.) preferred.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong documentation skills.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities.

Additional Information

• Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
• Fast- paced and professional work culture
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• 4-6x / year in-person team meet-ups

Salary Range: $80,000 - 95,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Ourcore values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in thistogethertodo the right thing. We deliverreal resultswe are proud of while remainingrespectful,transparent, andflexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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