Accounts Payable Specialist, AlphaSense
$50-70k
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$50-70k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 2-3 years of relevant experience with accounts payable, corporate credit card transactions, and employee expense reimbursements at a large company with multiple entities
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Professional demeanor and strong work ethic
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Proven time management skills, demonstrates the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
- Experience with invoice and expense management software, Ramp preferred
- Experience with ERP systems, NetSuite preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
What the job involves
- The AlphaSense Finance team is responsible for efficiently driving the creation of enterprise value by supporting capital allocation decisions across the business
- We exist to help the company make intelligent, data-driven decisions through financial analysis, scenario modeling, tracking, interpreting and disseminating key performance indicators, and by serving as a critical thought partner to senior leadership
- We are seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist to join our accounting team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong time management skills, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with vendors and internal stakeholders
- This role is responsible for processing invoices, managing vendor payments, and supporting month-end close activities using a modern AP tech stack, including NetSuite, Ramp, and Navan
- The Accounts Payable Specialist will play a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring compliance with company policies, and fostering positive relationships with vendors and internal stakeholders
- Manage assigned email inboxes, resolving requests and responding to vendor and internal stakeholder inquiries within 2 business days
- Process invoices in a timely manner, including matching invoices to purchase orders and ensuring appropriate coding to the General Ledger
- Treat expenses in accordance with the company’s Prepaid Asset and Fixed Asset policies, if applicable
- Review corporate credit card transactions and employee expense reimbursements, ensuring adherence to all policy requirements and proper coding to the General Ledger
- Onboard new vendors by collecting documentation, verbally verifying banking information, and reviewing tax requirements
- Communicate with approvers and cardholders across departments to maintain timely collection of receipts, expense details, and approvals
- Support the month-end close process by preparing detailed vendor expense analyses and accrual schedules
- Reconcile accounts payable across multiple entities, ensuring alignment with vendor statements and resolving discrepancies
- Assist with administration of the corporate travel program, including enforcing travel policy, and providing support to employees when booking travel as needed
- Compile support for external audits and tax filings
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain: financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field, AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it has now set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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