Senior Accounting & Tax Operations Manager, Collective
$140-180k
+ Equity + Bonus
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Back-office platform for self-employed people
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Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- Credentials: Active CPA, EA, or JD in state of residency
- Experience: 5+ years of experience scaling and bridging bookkeeping and tax operations. Technical proficiency in complex books and tax preparation (multi-jurisdictional compliance, 1040, 1120-S, etc.) combined with hands-on experience managing high-volume workflows and large client portfolios
- Skills: Strong analytical and data-driven problem-solving skills; ability to translate deep tax complexity into scalable workflows, acting as the bridge between technical tax practice, bookkeeping, and high-volume service delivery
- Tools: Comfortable working within Google Workspace, Slack, tax research/preparation tools (e.g., CCH, GoSystems, etc.), and issue-documentation tools (e.g Jira, Confluence, etc.)
What the job involves
- As part of the Service Operations tax and accounting team, you will play a vital role bridging our tax and accounting teams, providing strategic direction on our most complex financial scenarios to ensure our books are optimized for successful tax delivery
- You will operate as a subject matter expert and advisor to internal teams, leading a team as the function scales
- Understand Complex-tier members' financial background, business structure, goals, and tax situation, helping identify optimization opportunities making books-to-tax feel like a single, fluid deliverable
- Support your team of bookkeepers and tax staff, ensuring their continuous growth and capability. Mentor and provide feedback on complex scenarios they encounter
- Manage our complex-tier members for ongoing tax and bookkeeping delivery. This includes reviewing year-round financial activity to bridge books-to-tax implications of business decisions
- Handle escalations from less-complex members whose situations have crossed into complex-tier member territory (e.g., unexpected rental property income, multi-state/nexus exposure, etc.). You will make the call on whether it's a one-off issue or a larger need, and solve it at the root
- Review bookkeeping and federal/state tax returns (Form 1040, 1120-S, 1065, and schedules such as C/E/SE), consistently delivering high-quality results that align with compliance requirements and member goals
- Serve as the in-house technical expert when our accounting or tax teams encounter complex situations: multi-state apportionment, nexus considerations, rental property basis, K-1 flow-through, payroll sourcing, etc. Partner with enablement to build playbooks and training modules so the team continuously learns and handles more complexity over time
- Willing to upskill into additional service types or more complex work areas (e.g., payroll, additional business tax realms, etc.)
- Balance immediate member needs with the broader goal of raising the bar on what the organization can handle. Document complex scenarios as they come up, identify patterns, and turn them into training and process improvements for the wider team
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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