Accounting Analyst

Company Overview:

Payability empowers eCommerce sellers with flexible funding and tailored cash flow solutions. Since our founding in 2015, we have helped thousands of eCommerce sellers scale their businesses by providing over $6 billion in funding to date. Payability is fully remote and we are looking for talented people to join our dynamic team bringing friction-free financing and payment products to eCommerce businesses.

Team Overview:

The Payability Finance team is responsible for several critical disciplines within the organization, such as accounting, financial reporting, risk, collections and treasury. The Accounting Analyst function is responsible for preparing, monitoring and analyzing the cash needs of the organization primarily through the daily borrowing base process, various accounting duties, managing the movement of cash between Company subsidiaries, helping to track customer receipts and fundings, as well as maintaining and analyzing the various company financial models and management reporting.  This position will report to and work closely with the Controller.

Position Overview: (this is a remote role)

We are looking for a proactive, energetic and diligent Accounting Analyst to join our team. The Analyst’s main responsibilities will include: preparing the daily borrowing base and associated reporting, evaluating the Company’s liquidity position, month-end close, as well as interacting and building collaborative and positive relationships with third-party vendors and other team members. You will also have the responsibility of creating and updating the Company’s financial models and dashboard reporting. In addition, the Accounting Analyst will be responsible for handling all of the significant data and reporting requests made by our investors and our senior leadership team across all of the various functions of the organization.

For this role, you will be challenged to build and help automate your own workflows to ensure efficient and timely recording of accounting entries, reporting and analysis. You will be empowered to glean new insights that will help the team better focus to enhance company reporting. You will also be expected to propose and implement solutions to complement (or even replace) aspects of processes that have already been established.  We are very focused on process improvements and creating efficiencies.  

The ideal candidate will be highly organized and methodical. We are looking for someone who is hungry to learn and do what it takes to help the finance team provide relevant data to senior management to better manage the business. You should have a keen eye for technology, and be highly motivated to automate tasks wherever possible. You should be analytical, with the ability to ingest complex information and data signals, and output actionable insights. Lastly, you must be mission driven, and have experience working in teams that are dynamic and cross-functional.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare daily borrowing base & reporting
• Responsible for ensuring all reporting requirements to lenders are met, such as covenant declarations
• Work closely with the Controller to ensure debt covenants and other metrics are met
• Work with Controller to maintain and iterate on financial models under various scenarios
• Prepare and update LTV, CAC and other metrics related to Company products for senior lenders
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual JEs, consolidation, closings, as well as financial reporting.
• Calculate all Company liquidity metrics to ensure we are meeting cash management expectations
• Assist business heads with ad-hoc financial analysis, especially as we track the performance of new products and/or whether to launch new products

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in either Finance, Accounting (or related field) -  (required)
• Strong accounting background (required)
• Experience using SQL (e.g., Lookr, BigQuery, Python) to extract, manipulate and transform that data into actionable insights, dashboards and working spreadsheets
• Highly experienced with automation and process improvement (required)
• QBO experience
• Consolidation experience
• Master’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or similar
• CPA, or all 4 parts passed
• High proficiency with dashboards and spreadsheets
• Advanced excel skillset
• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Strong attention to detail and appreciation of the importance of accurate accounting records/reporting
• Ability to prioritize tasks and produce results in a timely fashion
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to roll up sleeves and work in a team environment
• Ability to thrive in rapidly changing environments 
• Passionate about the fintech and ecommerce markets

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
• Training & Development
• Work From Home
• Comprehensive compensation package that includes quarterly OKR bonuses