Staff Accountant
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)