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Staff Accountant, Financial Operations

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA
110K-130K Annually
Junior
In-Office
San Francisco, CA
110K-130K Annually
Junior
Own day-to-day accounting for a growing marketplace, including accounts payable, accounts receivable support, recruiter payouts, invoicing, collections, refunds, clawbacks, journal entries, accruals, Stripe-to-GL reconciliation, balance sheet reconciliations, audit and tax support, and process documentation. The role requires strong spreadsheet skills, accounting fundamentals, attention to deadlines, and the ability to automate manual finance processes.
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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how a marketplace works financially: placement invoicing, recruiter payouts through Stripe, clawbacks and refunds on rescinded offers.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 Process refunds, credits, and recruiter clawbacks for fired, rescinded, and reneged offers against contract terms.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 a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

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.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

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