Senior Accountant

The Company You’ll Join

At Clearstory we make the construction industry more efficient by using technology to better communicate project costs between companies.

Every day thousands of pounds of paper and hundreds of personnel hours are consumed to record and communicate extra work completed on construction job sites around the World.

These pieces of paper can take days or weeks to reach the office and from there need to be scanned, manually transcribed, and tediously recorded into spreadsheets, that is, if they aren’t lost or damaged first.

In an industry with constant change and thin margins, this results in a massive loss of valuable time and money for hard working contractors.

Clearstory creates tools to help contractors dramatically increase the organization and efficiency of this system, called “change order communication,” by intelligently digitizing this age-old paper process. This leads to an increase in profits, more successful contractor to customer relationships, more transparency into a project’s true cost, and less wasted paper!

The Opportunity

Just as TurboTax did for tax documents and Expensify did for receipts and expense reports, Clearstory is doing for change order communication and log management by building first-of-its-kind, category defining software that is revolutionizing the commercial construction industry.

As an early member of the Finance and Administration team you will have a critical impact on the development, implementation and management of our back-office administrative systems, including those for accounting and reporting, human resources, payroll and tax. As the main administrative go-to role, you will be in an enviable position of being the primary point of contact for all our employees and teams; to allow for both problem solving and guidance.

The Role

The Senior Accountant position will have a wide variety of responsibilities to maintain and manage daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly obligations. From assisting our employees and teams on a regular basis, to implementing and launching new systems and processes to providing more efficiency and effectiveness for the Company. This role requires a proactive individual that can work independently and interact with all internal and external Company contacts with a high degree of professionalism.

Requirements

Responsibilities include:

• Manage and maintain accounting records for complete and accurate monthly and quarterly reporting
• Manage all accounting and bookkeeping functions including the billing and vendor payment processes. This includes supervising offshore accounting personnel to achieve this
• Administer the Company’s PEO for payroll, onboarding employees, benefits, and HR
• Manage and maintain other platforms for equity (e.g., Carta) and expense reimbursement (e.g., Expensify)
• Implement and support tax reporting for State and Local jurisdictions
• Interact with other departments (i.e., Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing) on a regular basis to support these teams from an operations perspective and to ensure accurate reporting
• Manage and support annual external audit
• Develop and implement accounting policies and procedures, such as GL account reconciliations
• Stay up-to-date on accounting regulations and best practices

Skills include:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• 3+ years of experience in public accounting and/or industry accounting is required, preferably in the software industry
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Hybrid work schedule allowing for up to one or two days per week working remotely
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience maintaining various roles in Administration (i.e., Accounting, Payroll, HR, Benefits, Tax) is a plus

More important than meeting 100% of qualifications, we are looking for collaborative, long-term team members with a self-starter growth mindset, a commitment to proactive communication, and a bias towards action, who are aligned and excited with our company’s mission to build the industry standard in digital change order communication for the commercial construction industry.

Benefits

• Experience at a venture backed growth startup
• Exposure to executives on a daily basis
• Subsidized healthcare, vision, and dental
• 401(k) plan
• Early equity!