Accounting Lead
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Enterprise conversational-AI platform that helps businesses build and operate customer-experience agents across channels.
San Francisco, United States
About Sierra
Sierra provides an AI platform for businesses to build, deploy, analyze, and optimize customer-facing agents across chat, SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, and ChatGPT.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage accounting close across global entities, maintain reconciliations and supporting documentation, review expenses, and prepare intercompany and consolidation entries. You will oversee daily accounting operations, coordinate audit readiness, support reporting, and improve finance processes and tooling using AI.
Requirements
- 5-10 years of experience across public and private companies
- Proficiency in US GAAP, including revenue recognition, lease accounting, and stock-based compensation
- Ability to identify improvements and build solutions using AI
- Ability to drive operational efficiency and scale the accounting function
- Process design, automation, and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Manage timely accounting close across global entities
- Maintain supporting documentation and reconciliations
- Review expenses and develop an accrual process
- Prepare intercompany journal entries and consolidation entries
- Assist with monthly reporting and period-over-period analysis
- Manage coding of vendor bills, corporate credit cards, and employee reimbursements
- Oversee global cash application in the ERP
- Coordinate payroll journal-entry reviews and payroll-tax payments
- Coordinate external audit requests
- Enhance finance technology and develop an AI-first approach
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexible unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their families
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Discretionary benefit stipend
- Free alphorn lessons
