Staff Accountant

convergentresearch; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Convergent Research seeks a Staff Accountant to own the books across Convergent and its entities, performing hands-on accounting tasks and reporting to the Controller. You will manage journal entries, revenue and intercompany activity, and reconciliations to keep our records accurate and audit-ready.

This is a fully remote position with quarterly domestic travel for team onsites, supporting a nonprofit R&D mission and collaborating with a growing accounting team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on accounting covering journal entries, revenue and intercompany activity, and intercompany reconciliations.
• Maintain schedules and ensure audit readiness with oversight from Finance & Accounting Managers and Controller.

Responsibilities

• Record journal entries and revenue/intercompany activity.
• Reconcile accounts and maintain schedules.
• Keep us audit-ready with review from Finance & Accounting Managers and the Controller.

Skills

Journal entries

Intercompany

Account reconciliation

Revenue tracking

Job description

Convergent Research is a non-profit science studio best known for pioneering the Focused Research Organization (FRO): a startup-style team built to tackle one ambitious scientific problem that academia and industry can’t. We're launching moonshot science projects which may change the trajectory of scientific progress. Today we support 14 FROs and counting across the US, the UK and Chile, with an annual budget of $75 million and growing. Large-scale brain mapping, climate measurement and software for math all have something in common: they each need a nonprofit legal entity, payroll providers, health benefits, boards, contracts, office space, press releases, websites... For every FRO we support, Convergent provides the backend infrastructure that lets them move fast.

About the Role

As a Staff Accountant, you are a fully qualified accountant who owns the books across Convergent, its disregarded entities and its subsidiaries in the US and UK. You will do the hands-on work end to end: record journal entries, revenue and intercompany activity, reconcile accounts, maintain schedules and keep us audit-ready, with review from the Finance & Accounting Managers and the Controller. Reporting to the Controller, you will work independently, with team review at key points, and grow your expertise alongside a team of experienced accountants.

This is a fully remote position with domestic travel required quarterly for team and organizational onsites, and as needed.

Convergent Research aims to help fill a structural gap in today's R&D system. We enable fundamental research that requires unusual levels of scale and coordination yet is not rapidly monetizable by industry. We're bringing together top talent from academia, industry, and startups to build a new model for innovative R&D.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. We believe in hiring individuals based on their unique talents-not on race, color, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or our company policies. We are more than a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Our goal is to foster a healthy, safe, and respectful environment where all employees are valued and treated with dignity. Harassment of any kind is not tolerated here. #LI-remote #LI-KP1