Accounting Manager
ClayAbout the role
About Clay
Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality.
We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula. Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, Waste Management, Figma, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.
In 2025, we crossed $100M in revenue and raised a $100M Series C at a $3.1B valuation, backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round. We also completed our first first employee tender offer and launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.
Some things to know about us:
Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
Our culture is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here.
Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
Accounting @ Clay
We are in hypergrowth mode, and as we scale, we’re building out our finance and accounting functions. This role is an opportunity to be the first Accounting Manager and lay the groundwork infrastructure for all things accounting at Clay.
We're looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented, and strategic Accounting Manager to build our accounting operations end-to-end. Reporting directly to the Controller, you’ll take charge of everything from monthly closes, technical memos, revenue recognition and process workflows. We focus on simplifying processes, leveraging automation, and using technology and AI to make our accounting processes smarter and more efficient. This is a unique opportunity to set up best-in-class accounting processes at an early-stage startup and scale them alongside the business.
What You’ll Do
Build out all core accounting functions: Oversee the month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.
Establish scalable accounting systems and controls: Implement financial systems, develop internal controls, accounting policies, and process docu
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