Staff Accountant, Financial Operations

Paraform; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Paraform is seeking a Staff Accountant, Financial Operations to own day-to-day accounting for our fast-growing marketplace. You’ll run accounts payable end-to-end, support invoicing and collections, and own part of the monthly close under the Senior Manager, Accounting.

You’ll learn how a marketplace is financed, reconcile Stripe payouts, process refunds and clawbacks, and help document processes with automation.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of accounting experience, ideally in a startup or public accounting.
• 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.
• Bonus: CPA eligible or in progress.

Responsibilities

• Own accounts payable. Process recruiter payouts and vendor bills, review expense reports and reimbursements against policy, and confirm approvals follow 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 Process refunds, credits, and recruiter clawbacks for fired, rescinded, and reneged offers against contract terms.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.

Skills

AP/AR

Excel

Close coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

Tools

Stripe

Job description

About The Role

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.

About The Role

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.

What You'll Do

• 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 We're Looking For

• 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.
• Bonus: a marketplace or usage-based business; CPA eligible or in progress.

The ideal candidate brings

• 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

About Paraform

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace, modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We connect companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

We believe recruiting works best when human judgment is paired with AI that truly understands hiring. That's why we treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors, and build the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

Industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch hire through Paraform, and we grew revenue 8× last year. We're backed by Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. For more on where we're headed, read our company vision.