Staff Accountant, Financial Operations - End-to-End Close

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 Process refunds, credits, and recruiter clawbacks for fired, rescinded, and reneged offers against contract terms.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

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.