Before you read on, take a look around you. Chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. E-commerce is exploding, and with it, parcel shipping is becoming a meaningful factor in a business' ability to succeed. Creating a compelling shipping experience for customers is hard but necessary.
At Shippo, our goal is to level the playing field by providing businesses access to shipping tools and terms that would not be available to them otherwise.
By lowering the barriers to shipping, businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers, get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns.
About the role:
This is a unique opportunity to be a founding member of the Shippo Accounting Team. You will build and drive the accounting strategy for Shippo as we continue to rapidly scale the company. The ideal candidate is driven, hard working, and contributes accounting thought leadership to Shippo.
Responsibilities
- Perform day to day management of all payment cycle activities and provide efficient client service
- Keep track, process and reconcile payments and expenditures, including purchase orders, invoices, statements, check deposits, refund requisitions etc, in compliance with financial policies and procedures
- Liaise with internal and external clients
- Regularly tabulate data and compile necessary reports
- Verify discrepancies and resolve clients’ billing issues
- Facilitate swift payment of invoices due to the organization by sending bill reminders and contacting clients with outstanding accounts
- Record cash and expense transactions, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and proper classification
- Ensure correct approval, sorting, coding and matching of vendor bills, employee expense reports and receipts
- Determine and record month-end journal entries; prepare month-end reconciliations
- Assist with month-end financial reporting in accordance with GAAP
- Identify opportunities to improve our close process; propose and implement solutions
- Assist with ad hoc projects supporting overall business growth
Requirements
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in a combination of public and in-house accounting
- Experience with Excel, NetSuite, Expensify & Bill.com is a Plus
- Experience in a SaaS / start-up environment is a Plus
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA candidate is a Plus
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent execution of repetitive tasks with consistent attention to detail
Benefits
- Benefits: medical, dental, vision (90% covered by the company, incl. dependents)
- Take-as-much-as-you-need vacation policy + flexible work hours
- Free lunch / drinks / snacks
- Fun team events outside of work hours - happy hours, picnics, game nights, and more!