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.

This Senior Accountant position is a critical role within the overall accounting operations for our rapidly growing company. The successful candidate will work in close partnership with the Controller, the Director of FP&A, and the Human Resource team, as well as serving as a point of contact for our external auditors. As Senior Accountant, you will own the procure-to-pay 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 procure-to-pay accounting and control infrastructure.

What you'll do:

• Own and manage day-to-day, and monthly accounts payable activities to ensure compliance with internal controls, external audits, and US GAAP
• Support monthly close and post-close activities
• Manage full-cycle payroll, including reconciliations
• Bank account reconciliations
• Manipulate and reconcile large volumes of data in Excel from sources such as NetSuite, Bill.com, Expensify, and corporate credit cards
• Prepare complex journal entries and balance sheet account reconciliations
• Prepare supporting documentation for annual audit
• Develop, improve, and document procure-to-pay 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 spend forecasting and variance analysis
• Facilitate and maintain cross-departmental relationships
• Work on ad-hoc accounting and finance projects as needed

What you have:

• 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 (hyper-growth 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 Bill.com and Expensify
• Experience with Namely payroll processing

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 transactions and managing large amounts of data
• You can think across multiple dimensions of a business and work cross-functionally to deliver results
• You enjoy working as a team player with a commitment to deliver outstanding results

Individuals seeking employment at HouseCanary are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.