Senior Accountant at Sierra in San Francisco, CA

Job description

• Application
• About us
• Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
• We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
• Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end accounting close
• Support the Accounting Lead with month close procedures globally
• Prepare supporting documentation and reconciliations including but not limited to cash, prepaids, fixed assets, other assets, payroll, and accruals
• Help to implement close management software
• Perform initial review for accuracy and completeness of expenses including developing a robust accrual process
• Liaise with FP&A in the preparation of the monthly reporting package including period-over-period analysis
• Perform daily ad hoc accounting tasks
• Assist with review of vendor bills, corporate credit cards, and employee reimbursements
• Manage cash application daily and monitor global balances
• Improve collections by building robust automated processes
• Coordinate with payroll to review payroll journal entries and ensure all required payroll taxes are paid
• Prepare for audit readiness
• Coordinate with external auditors for timely submission of all required requests (Global Audit and Local Statutory Audits)
• Drive Finance Transformation initiatives to leverage AI and tooling at scale
• Enhance or upgrade our tech stack to enable the latest in AI technology
• Challenge our processes and develop an AI-first approach

Requirements

• 4-8 years of accounting experience with a mix of public (highly regulated) and private (hyper-growth) companies
• Proficient in US GAAP
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and build solutions using AI
• Desire to drive operational efficiency to scale the accounting function
• A structured, self-directed, detail-oriented builder and problem solver who can design a process where none exists, run it, and improve it over time without being managed toward it. A bias for simplifying and automating processes and a passion for building an AI-native finance function.
• Previous IPO experience with enterprise B2B software company
• CPA license and/or Big 4 experience
• Proficiency with our modern office-of-the-CFO tech stack

Skills

Required

• Accounting
• US GAAP
• AI
• Process improvement
• Operational efficiency
• Problem solving
• Self-directed
• Detail-oriented
• Automation
• Process design

Preferred

• IPO experience
• CPA license
• Big 4 experience
• Office-of-the-CFO tech stack

Benefits

• We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to full-time employees:
• Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
• Parental leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
• Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
• Free alphorn lessons
• These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies, may vary by region, and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.