Staff Accountant
Formic provides full-service, robotics-as-a-service automation for U.S. manufacturers, including deployment, operation, monitoring, and maintenance of industrial robotic systems without upfront capital investment.
About Formic
Formic Technologies, Inc. is a Bolingbrook, Illinois-based industrial automation company founded in 2020. Its Full Service Automation offering deploys and operates robotic systems for manufacturing tasks such as palletizing, case packing, machine tending, pallet wrapping, and material movement. Its current platform combines Formic Core, an on-robot physical-AI execution layer, with Cortex, a fleet-level intelligence and operations layer.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support audit requests and readiness, prepare journal entries and reconciliations, and contribute to month-end close and financial reporting. You will resolve accounting discrepancies, improve processes and documentation, and partner on inventory management and quarterly inventory counts.
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- General ledger accounting, month-end close, journal entry, and account reconciliation experience
- Financial audit, audit-readiness, or external auditor-request experience
- Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently
- Analytical, organizational, and project management skills
Responsibilities
- Respond to auditor requests and coordinate supporting materials
- Support scalable processes for the 2026 audit cycle
- Prepare journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules
- Improve the accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of close deliverables
- Support internal and management financial reporting
- Identify and resolve accounting discrepancies, open items, and process gaps
- Maintain cost reporting and tracking
- Partner on inventory management processes and quarterly inventory counts
- Improve reconciliation, accrual, expense classification, close-management, and documentation processes
- Create and maintain recurring accounting-process documentation
Benefits
- Stock option program
- Uncapped commission structure
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- FSA and DCFSA
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- 401(k) plan
- Home office stipend for fully remote and hybrid employees
- Monthly cell phone and internet reimbursement
- Flexible paid time off