Accounting Associate (US, EST)
Strapi
Accounting & Finance
Île-de-France, France · Paris, France
Posted on Dec 12, 2024
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You could be joining a globally distributed team of over 60 Strapiers from the USA, France, Italy, and beyond. At Strapi, we offer a fully remote, inclusive, and diverse environment, embracing collaboration, transparency, and care at every level.
Strapi’s culture is centered around empowerment and opportunity. If you believe in your ability to contribute and elevate our team, we’d love to hear your story—even if you don’t meet every single requirement. Few of us would be here if we hadn’t taken the chance.
🙏 Why this role is important at Strapi
Are you an accounting professional passionate about accuracy and providing excellent support?
The Strapi Finance team is looking for an Accounting Associate with experience in preparing and analyzing financial information, ensuring compliance with local accounting standards, and maintaining positive relationships with internal & external stakeholders.
The Accounting Associate will partner closely with our external accounting teams in the US and France and provide comprehensive support for customer and vendor billing. You’ll regularly interact with Strapiers across different departments and support them in effectively managing expenses and adhering to company policies.
The right person for this role will fully grasp the principles of US GAAP, group consolidation, and accounting best practices while also possessing excellent customer service skills.
📋 What will my job look like on a daily basis?
- Lead the monthly and annual financial close process in coordination with external accountants, ensuring deadlines are met, accuracy is maintained, and compliance requirements are adhered to.
- Maintain the General Ledgers, prepare financial reconciliations, and consolidate financial statements across the group, ensuring accurate and timely reporting. Strong knowledge of transfer pricing is a plus.
- Prepare and analyze financial reports, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow projections, by interpreting financial data, identifying trends, and presenting actionable insights in a clear and concise manner.
- Manage tax compliance processes in both the US and France, coordinating the preparation and filing of tax returns while monitoring tax payment schedules.
- Ensure banking governance policies and loan covenants are adhered to.
- Accounts Receivable management: Ensure timely and accurate invoicing and collections from customers, reconcile accounts, and proactively resolve any billing discrepancies. This requires excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Accounts Payable management: Process vendor invoices and expense reimbursements, ensuring compliance with company policies and payment deadlines. Actively monitor and improve the expense management process for Strapiers.
- Maintain financial documentation and records in accordance with company and legal standards, ensuring they are audit-ready at all times.
- You provide excellent customer service and support to our customers on billing-related inquiries.
💙 About You
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and a minimum of 2 years of experience in accounting (experience with US GAAP is required, experience in French GAAP is a strong asset).
- You have excellent proficiency in Excel for data analysis, report creation, and complex calculations. You also have experience with accounting software, such as QuickBooks, and can demonstrate the ability to learn new tools quickly. Proficiency in Google Sheets is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and customers across different regions and cultures.
- Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in all financial processes, reporting and documentation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proactive in identifying inefficiencies where you can add value and improve processes.
- Capable of working independently, managing multiple priorities, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment. There are often many tasks to be completed in a day, and it is crucial that you can independently prioritize and manage your workload in an effective manner.
- Experience working in a remote environment is a plus.
✌🏼 Strapi Benefits
- 🌍 Work from anywhere: we're a remote-first company, so we can work wherever home is as long as there's WiFi. We provide you with a remote set-up budget so you can design your own office space.
- 💰 Equity for everyone: We win together. On top of a competitive salary, every Strapier has equity that grows with you in the company.
- 🌴 Generous PTO Policy: we offer all employee, no matter their location, 25 days off per year.
- 🩺 Expanded health benefits: Including premium medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 🌱 Mental health support: We offer Moka.care one-on-one sessions with certified specialists.
- 🙏 Emergency days: 5 paid days per year, for each Strapier in trouble (miscarriage, grief, domestic violence, sick kids or dependants) who needs a day or a few days off.
- 🐣 Parents on a mission: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for every new Strapi parent.
- 💻 You'll always be up to date: We’ll cover all hardware and software needed, so you’re always with the latest versions.
- 🎓 Grow as you are: From day one, we provide budget and tools to learn and grow both professionally and personally.
- 🎉 Offsite: We all gather physically or virtually all together twice a year to connect with each other.
Important
- 📅 Starting date: TBC
- 📍 Location: Remote. Candidates must be located in the USA in the Eastern Time Zone
- 💡 To apply, please ensure you send us your CV and Cover Letter.
💥 Our Talent Acquisition Process
- First video call with the Hiring Manager
- Technical assessment & Assessment debriefing
- Meeting with the VP, Finance & Legal
- Meet the Team: Connect with Strapiers
- References check
This process typically takes 2-3 weeks but may be subject to change based on the number of candidates.
🎉 Celebrating You being YOU!
Strapi's mission is to empower the worldwide community of users to build a million tailor-made projects. To do that, we are growing a diverse team representative of the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe workplace where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves. By being you and bringing your unique difference, perspective, culture, experience, lifestyles, and challenges, you actually help all of us succeed and grow to be the best version of ourselves!
It is important to us to create an accessible and inclusive candidate experience. Please let us know if there are any adjustments we can make to assist you during the hiring and interview process.
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