Overview
Staff Accountant Jobs in San Francisco, USA at Notion
Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today’s world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
In-person collaboration is essential to Notion’s culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
The Role
We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Accountant to join our growing accounting team. Our team builds scalable processes to support Notion’s financial reporting and compliance needs. You will be a critical member of the team, helping build and operate a world class month-end close process. You will manage the general ledger, account reconciliations, and provide audit and financial reporting support, focusing on efficiency and quality.
What
Youll Achieve
- Design and implement scalable corporate accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure compliance with US GAAP and other laws/regulations
- Own parts of the month-end close including month-end journal entries, reconciliations and supporting schedules (cash, accounts payable, fixed assets, allocations, expenses)
- Develop, implement, and document new accounting policy and provide expertise in recommending enhancements to existing policies
- Contribute to the financial audit process in preparation and providing of various audit requests and inquiries
- Complete monthly variance analysis through understanding the financial data within the greater context of the business
- Work closely with various stakeholders within Finance and across the company to identify problems, process gaps and propose reasonable and creative solutions to improve processes including opportunities for automating manual processes
- Collaborate with the Accounting Manager on general corporate accounting matters and ad hoc projects or requests
Skills Youll Need To Bring
- You don;t need to be an AI expert, but youre curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.
- Degree in Accounting (CPA a plus, not required)
- 2+ years of working with tech companies in public or private accounting
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP; conceptual and practical experience in researching, understanding and communicating technical accounting issues and recommendations
- Proven experience with developing scalable, efficient and controlled processes
- Self-starter who can thrive in a fast-paced environment and proactively drive business results
- Strong attention to detail, communication, and high degree of analytical and problem-solving skills
- Organized and execution focused, with an ability to work independently
- Experience using Net Suite, Zip, Ramp or similar accounting software
Nice To Haves
- Experience with a high-growth SaaS company
We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.
Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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Title: Staff Accountant
Company: Notion
Location: San Francisco, USA
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