Tech Accountant

Posted Aug 13

Tech Accountant (start-up experience required)- (Remote, USA)

School of Motion, a leading creative organization, is seeking a highly skilled and driven Tech Accountant to join our dynamic team. If you are passionate about numbers and possess a keen interest in uncovering opportunities and inefficiencies within operational processes, product pricing, and beyond, then this is the role for you. As a key member of our finance team, you will play a vital role in ensuring the efficiency of day-to-day accounting and financial operations. This position reports directly to the Director of Finance and People Ops.

The primary responsibilities for this position include:

  • Collaborating with the CEO and other key decision-makers to spot those golden opportunities and uncover inefficiencies in our operations and product pricing.
  • You own the accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, and rocking at communicating with our talented artists and amazing third-party vendors.
  • Taking the reins of the Chart of Accounts in QuickBooks Online and showing it who's boss.
  • Ensuring meticulous balance sheet reconciliations in compliance with U.S. GAAP and other accounting regulations. Accuracy is your middle name!
  • Analyzing month-end close activities with a fine-tooth comb, catching any coding errors or discrepancies, and bringing them to management's attention. Let's keep things squeaky clean!
  • Collaborating with various teams to ensure expenses are accurately categorized. We like to stay organized!
  • Becoming best friends with SOM's bank accounts by reconciling them monthly. They'll be looking sharp!
  • Assisting the Director in performing Cash Flow Analyses, Forecasting, Budgets, and keeping the financial health reports in tip-top shape.
  • Supporting the Director in developing quarterly and annual department budgets and making sure everyone sticks to them. Money matters, folks!
  • Partnering with our rockstar outsourced CPA firm to handle those quarterly tax payments and year-end tax filings like a pro.
  • Assisting the Director in handling state registration, tax notices, and filings. We're all about staying compliant!
  • Keeping a close eye on local, state, and federal regulations to ensure we're always on the right side of the law.
  • Oversee monthly and quarterly sales tax remittances with our outsourced CPA firm.

To succeed in this role, you must:

  • You've got 5-10+ years of experience in finance and/or accounting, preferably in the startup world. We love that entrepreneurial spirit!
  • A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting is your secret weapon (CPA or advanced degree? Even better!).
  • A sales tax wizard is a required secret ingredient!
  • You're familiar with SaaS accounting methodologies and can navigate those waters like a champ, especially Excel is your trusty sidekick, and you're rockin' it at an Intermediate level or above.
  • You're the Sherlock Holmes of Deferred Revenue Accounting entries and calculations.
  • Attention to detail is your superpower. We're talking superhero-level precision!
  • You're proactive and fearless when it comes to sharing your ideas and providing input on strategic decisions. We want your voice heard!
  • Collaboration is your jam, and you're not afraid to speak up and share your brilliant ideas with cross-functional teams.
  • You thrive in a dynamic role where responsibilities evolve. Change is the name of the game!
  • Learning new digital tools like Slack, Zoom, Bill.com, and Airtable gets you pumped up.
  • You're proficient in SQL, Python, or R and can dive deep into data analysis with confidence.
  • Hands-on experience with either Shopify or Stripe Tax, Stripe Sigma, and Taxjar is a major plus. We love tech-savvy accountants!

So, if you're a motivated, detail-oriented financial whiz seeking an exciting role in a creative and fast-paced environment, we're ready to meet you! Join our team and take your first step toward an incredibly rewarding career with growth potential within our fantastic organization. Your expertise and insights will shape our strategic vision as we uncover opportunities and drive growth and efficiency. Let's make magic happen together!

About School of Motion

At School of Motion, we’re trying to reinvent the way students learn online by combining the best parts of a traditional brick-and-mortar school with technology that allows our students to receive elite Motion Design training from anywhere in the world. Our mission is to break down the barriers to learning, mastering, and working in Motion Design. We currently have seventeen comprehensive courses, over 20,000 Alumni, dozens of Teaching Assistants, and a team of full-time staff working diligently to keep everything running! And this is only the beginning...

Our Core Values:

Our core values embody our team dynamic and our voice. We are rebellious, helpful, effective, playful, and curious. If you would like to work with us, you should be all of these things too:

  • Be Rebellious
  • Don’t do things just because they’ve always been done that way. If ‘going with the flow’ is not working, find a way to improve it. Radical candor is welcome. It’s OK to disagree, and it’s OK to be wrong. Speak and listen with an open heart and mind.
  • Be Helpful
  • Ask for and receive help. If you know how to help, and you can, then do so. If you see a teammate or student struggling, advocate for them. If you yourself need help, ask for it.
  • Be Effective
  • Get Sh*t Done. Regardless of your job title - CEO, Director, Assistant...do real, measurable, quantifiable work every day. Also - don’t overthink it. Perfect is the enemy of done.
  • Be Playful
  • We’re an online school, not an emergency room. It’s ok to be relaxed. When times are hard, ask “What is the worst outcome that could happen? What is the best?” Assess from there!
  • Be Curious
  • Try new things. Never stop learning. Don’t get too comfy. Things will change here, a lot. Predictability is not one of our core values.

We have some great benefits!

  • We cover 99% of your health insurance and a portion for your dependents
  • We have an extremely flexible time off policy. Work wherever you want with an internet connection.
  • Access to a 401K plan after one year of employment with a 4% dollar-for-dollar match
  • Saying that we have a very casual work environment is an understatement, just be you.

The position does require domestic travel at least once per year when we all get together for company retreats and industry conferences (they are fun!).

School of Motion is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind.

School of Motion is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at School of Motion are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

This position requires a full background check and credit check. Right now we accept candidates from the following states only: RI, MT, CO, FL, VA, HI, CT, NY, TX, MI, IL.