Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!
As a Staff Accountant based in our Santa Monica office, you’ll develop expertise in core accounting processes while supporting a collaborative Finance team. Reporting to the Assistant Controller, you’ll play a key role in the month-end close through journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analysis while also partnering across Finance on expense and revenue recognition, internal controls and process improvements initiatives.
To thrive in this role, you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 1-3+ years of relevant accounting experience
- GAAP & general ledger familiarity
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (e.g., VLOOKUPs, pivot tables)
- Attention to detail and highly organized
- Time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus points if you have:
- Netsuite experience
- Public company or public accounting experience
- CPA license (current or in process)
- Experience with foreign currency transactions
- Familiarity with business and financial platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Payoneer, Jira, Custodia)
How you’ll make an impact:
- Participate in the monthly close process, ensuring all financial data is reconciled, documented and reported timely.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly AR and revenue close procedures, including reconciliations, allowance for doubtful accounts and bad debt expense calculations.
- Manage accounts payable processes, including invoice processing, bi-monthly payment runs, and monthly expense report review/upload for US employees.
- Prepare journal and balance sheet reconciliations based on supporting schedules.
- Support accrual for recurring and nonrecurring expenses.
- Reconcile monthly bank activity and post related journal entries
- Support with Fixed Asset subledger activities, including additions, retirements, depreciation booking, and reconciliation to the GL.
- Partner with internal teams to ensure accuracy of customer information, including reconciling customer accounts.
- Maintain adequate internal controls within the accounting processes to ensure well-documented, accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Provide backup support for accounting operations as needed.
Why Taboola?
If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:
- Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
- Well-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision, 401k matching), pre-tax commuter benefits, a fully stocked kitchen, and various gym partnerships.
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
- Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.
Ready to realize your potential?
Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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About Taboola
Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.
Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.
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The pay offered may vary depending on several factors such as location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We may offer several perks as part of the compensation package that include a discretionary bonus, equity, flexible PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance, a competitive 401(k) match, paid parental leave, and more.
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