AlphaSense provides an AI-powered business insights platform, used by the largest and fastest-growing firms globally. Our mission is to curate and semantically index the world’s financial and market research content, including the vast high-value content sets that traditional web search engines cannot reach. With 1000+ clients, AlphaSense helps knowledge professionals become dramatically more productive, and gain an information edge by discovering critical data points and trends that others miss.

The Role: 

As the Staff Accountant, you will be responsible for a variety of accounting activities, with a focus on the order-to-cash process. You will work as part of a growing team at a well-funded growth-stage tech company, will have direct communications with clients, and will have a significant opportunity to advance your career as the company scales.

Role Responsibilities:

• Deal directly with customers AP departments: completing forms, registering with portals, responding to other vendor setup requests
• Work with the sales reps to ensure that finance receives set-up documents, special requests and other requirements in a timely fashion
• Generate invoices within the billing system and ensure they are delivered successfully to clients (and meet client requirements)
• Answering invoice questions from clients and routing requests internally as needed
• Monitor collections including responding to individual customer requests and billing processes
• Apply cash payments made by customers against outstanding invoices
• Enter vendor bills into accounting system to ensure the completeness of payables
• Review and approve expense reports to ensure they meet company expense policy
• Contributing to month end close process and managing related schedules, such as performing bank reconciliations
• Special projects as needed

Requirements: 

• Strong customer service skills
• AA or BA in accounting or related field (or commensurate experience)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency MS Office is required
• Experience in accounting software (Sage Intacct a plus, but not required)