Business Development Representative (Audit/Accounting Experience)

FloQast; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Family Forming benefits

Life & Disability Insurance

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

FloQast is seeking a Business Development Representative (BDR) in Chicago who wants to transition from public accounting into a high-growth tech company. Your auditing background will help you connect with CFOs and finance leaders while you build a sales career.

You’ll cultivate opportunities, develop outreach strategies, and collaborate with Account Executives. The base pay is $60,000 with an OTE of $85,000, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Past Audit/Accounting experience is REQUIRED.
• Willingness to start a sales career and learn quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate new business opportunities and build rapport with senior executives.
• Understand client accounting challenges and articulate FloQast solutions.
• Create prospecting lists using internet sources, social media, referrals, and inbound leads.

Skills

Audit experience

Coachable

Team player

Communication

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Do you want to transition out of public accounting while still utilizing your past experience and join a high growth tech company?

Our Business Development Representative (BDR) team is a high impact group made up of former public accountants that are starting their sales career.

We are looking for motivated individuals who are determined to add value and are driven by team wins and sales commissions. Our solution is targeted at those responsible for the finance and accounting functions within organizations of all types and sizes. We call on key client stakeholders within the office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). If you want to advance your career into a client-facing sales role, this job is for you.

Past Audit/Accounting experience is REQUIRED, candidates without this experience will not be considered at this time. Visa sponsorship is NOT available at this time

Check out our BDR Video!

What You’ll Do

• Cultivate new business opportunities and create outreach strategies to build rapport with senior level executives at potential clients
• Develop and maintain an effective level of understanding of the barriers our clients face while strategizing and identifying solutions for FloQast to help resolve them
• Utilize all available means to create robust and effective prospecting lists (including internet sources, social media, referrals, and inbound leads)
• Build effective outbound communication strategies for sales prospecting including phone outreach, email, social media etc.
• Meet or exceed daily/weekly activity targets for: Conversations with key influencers and decision makers via outbound communication efforts: Scheduling and conducting introductory qualifying calls; Converting qualified prospects to scheduled demos for Account Executives
• Track progress and document activities in Salesforce automation systems
• Effectively work cross functionally with stakeholders, including Account Executives, Marketing, and Sales Management

What You’ll Bring:

• Past Audit/Accounting experience is REQUIRED, any amount of Audit/Accounting experience is acceptable to apply
• Demonstrated ability and desire to learn new concepts
• Eager to be coached
• Commitment to self-improvement and success
• Team player with a collaborative orientation
• Ability to remain organized and execute in a fast-paced environment
• Tenacious and committed to exceeding targets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Competitive, ambitious and driven, with a self-starter attitude
• Interested in starting a sales career

Nice-to-Haves:

• Cold calling and/or Salesforce.com experience a plus but not required

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The base pay for this position is $60,000. This position is eligible for a commission plan in addition to base pay with an OTE of $85,000. Compensation is not limited to base salary. Compensation is not limited to base salary. FloQast values our Total Rewards, and offers a competitive and elaborate Benefits Package including, but not limited to, Medical, Dental, Vision, Family Forming benefits, Life & Disability Insurance, and Unlimited Vacation.FloQast reserves the right to amend, change, alter, and revise pay ranges and benefits offerings at any time. All applicants acknowledge that by applying to this position you understand that this specific pay range is contingent upon meeting the qualifications and requirements of the role, and for the successful completion of the interview selection and process. It is at the Company’s discretion to determine what pay is provided to a candidate within the range associated with the role.

About FloQast:

FloQast is the leading Accounting Transformation Platform in accounting workflow automation created by actual former accountants for accountants. By streamlining and modernizing daily accounting tasks, FloQast helps teams collaborate more effectively and complete their work with greater efficiency and precision. This cloud-based, AI-powered software is trusted by over 3,000 accounting teams, including those at Snowflake, Twilio, Instacart, and The Golden State Warriors—and continues to grow. Our mission is to continuously elevate the accounting profession, enhancing both its practice and perception.

Our values act as a guiding compass, shaping every decision we make, and are non-negotiable, particularly in our hiring process. Alongside our employees, partners, and customers, we embody these values every day:

Unwaveringly Authentic

Ambitious with Integrity

Empowered to Grow

Committed to Collaboration

Customer Obsessed in All Ways

FloQast is regularly rated as Best Place to Work!

• Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021
• Best Places to Work by LA Business Journal since 2017 (that’s 8 years!)
• Built In’s Best Place to Work in Los Angeles 6 years in a row!

Because we are Customer Obsessed in All Ways, check out what our customers have to say about FloQast on G2 Crowd.

FloQast, Inc is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education, and experience. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and strive to provide a professional and welcoming workplace for all employees.