Senior Accountant (Revenue Operations)

HouseCanary is creating a more efficient real estate marketplace, where its trusted property valuations help consumers and investors enjoy a frictionless experience in buying, financing, and improving their homes. By working directly with institutional investors, HouseCanary already powers more than $200 million in real estate transactions each month. Through partnerships with leading financial institutions, HouseCanary’s ComeHome platform will enable consumers to close on more than $100 billion of real estate transactions this year. HouseCanary recently raised $65M in Series C funding as our team continues our hyper-growth. Founded in 2013, HouseCanary has built its reputation on developing unique analytics for the $30.7 trillion residential real estate market, based on big data and refined through machine learning. By combining this technology with its nationwide brokerage, HouseCanary is uniquely positioned to connect investors and consumers alike to the information that they care most about in an effort to modernize and streamline the home buying and home ownership process.
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The Senior Accountant position is a critical role within our revenue accounting operations for our rapidly growing company. This person will work in close partnership with the Controller, the Director of FP&A, and the Sales Operations teams, as well as serving as a point of contact for our external auditors. As Senior Accountant, you will own the day-to-day revenue processing and monthly accounting at our corporate headquarters. Upon hire, you will report directly to the Controller. This is a great opportunity to refine your accounting skills in a fast-paced, growing start-up. You will partner with stakeholders across our dynamic organization to build and support a robust revenue accounting and control structure.

What you'll do:

• Manage day-to-day revenue accounting activities to ensure compliance with US GAAP, external audits, and internal controls
• Own and manage the monthly revenue close process (invoicing to cash application and reconciliations)
• Manage inquiries regarding invoicing and services (internal and external customers)
• Review, analyze, and summarize revenue contracts for key business terms
• Manipulate and reconcile large volumes of data in Excel from sources such as NetSuite, Zuora, and Salesforce
• Prepare complex journal entries and balance sheet account reconciliations for accounts receivable and all revenue accounts
• Perform revenue account analysis to ensure accuracy and compliance with GAAP in preparation for monthly financial reporting
• Prepare supporting documentation for annual audit
• Manage ASC 606 accounting
• Develop, improve, and document revenue accounting policies and procedures
• Continually look for ways to improve your function (improve workflows, automation, etc.)
• Support the FP&A team and other key stakeholders with revenue forecasting and variance analysis
• Facilitate and maintain internal cross-departmental relationships
• Work on ad-hoc accounting and finance projects as needed

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and 6+ years of relevant work experience
• At least 2 – 4 years of public accounting experience (bonus points for Big-4 CPA)
• At least 2 – 4 years of private accounting experience (start-up experience preferred)
• Experience with full-cycle accounting in which you owned the day-to-day and monthly accounting processes
• Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite
• Experience with Zuora
• Experience with MS Office (specifically Excel)

What Drives You:

• You are highly motivated to contribute to the success of the accounting organization by owning your function and improving upon the existing foundation to support rapid growth
• You thrive working in a dynamic business environment
• You can fluidly communicate ideas and enjoy working with individuals across an organization to solve problems and drive success
• You are entrepreneurial; constantly looking for ways to improve operating efficiency
• You are thorough and detail-oriented with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• You are resourceful and not afraid to roll up your sleeves.
• You are a problem solver with a desire to identify issues and discrepancies, independently perform research and analysis of causes, and recommend corrective actions
• You have a proven ability to meet deadlines
• You have strong written and oral communication skills
• You are comfortable with large volumes of tran