Senior Accounts Payable Accountant
Overview
Join a rapidly scaling organization as a Senior Accounts Payable Accountant and play a key role in strengthening and scaling critical accounting processes. This position is ideal for an adaptable, hands-on accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and can manage significant transaction volume while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy.
Reporting to the Accounting Manager, you will oversee full-cycle accounts payable activities, support expense and accrual accounting, record journal entries, and collaborate with internal stakeholders to resolve missing or incomplete information. Your ability to work independently, leverage technology—including AI-enabled workflows—and bring structure to evolving processes will be essential to success.
Required Skills
- Strong experience managing the full accounts payable cycle, including:
- Purchase order processing
- Invoice matching
- Vendor setup
- Account reconciliations
- Experience managing prepaid expenses, credit card expenses, and accruals
- Ability to record accurate journal entries
- Hands-on experience using Ramp
- Strong Excel skills
- Ability to manage high-volume AP activity, including numerous purchase orders and invoices without purchase orders
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
- Ability to investigate and resolve invoices with missing or incomplete information
- Adaptability and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work effectively with a lean accounting team
- Demonstrated initiative and foresight to improve accounting processes
- Comfort using AI tools as part of an accounting workflow
- Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience using Brex
- Experience using Rillet
- Experience working in a high-growth startup or technology environment
- Experience scaling or improving AP processes
- Familiarity with Slack and other collaborative workplace tools
Preferred Education and Experience
- Prior professional experience in accounts payable or accounting, with demonstrated responsibility for full-cycle AP
- Experience handling significant and fluctuating invoice volume
- Accounting-related education or equivalent practical experience is preferred
Specific degree and years-of-experience requirements were not provided.
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: Onsite in San Francisco, ideally five days per week
- Ability to work effectively in a hypergrowth environment where priorities and transaction volume may change from week to week
- Contract assignment expected to last approximately 3–6 months , with potential for conversion based on business needs and candidate fit
- Must be comfortable taking ownership of processes, working with limited oversight, and supporting a growing organization
