Accounting Manager, Brightwheel
$90.5-150k
+ Equity
Online platform for early education management
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Online platform for early education management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$90.5-150k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve education for young children, given the vital importance of early education for later life.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive in environments, where you can roll up your sleeves and drive key areas including accounting, reporting, internal controls, and compliance
- You’re process-minded, detail-oriented, and keen on building efficient and scalable systems
- BS degree in Accounting or Finance; (CPA) preferred
- 5-7 years of public accounting experience
- Accustomed to multitasking, prioritizing and meeting multiple tight deadlines in a fast-growing environment with frequently changing priorities
- Knowledge of GAAP and familiar with financial accounting statements, including consolidation and reporting
- Experienced with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process
- Process improvement mindset
- Experience working with NetSuite Oracle, TaxJar, Avalara, Airbase, Floquast
What the job involves
- Brightwheel is seeking an Accounting Manager to join our growing Accounting team
- As a collaborative team player, you bring strong interpersonal skills, enabling you to build effective relationships across teams, including People, Operations, and other cross-functional partners
- If you're looking for a role where you can make an impact, drive continuous improvement, and grow with a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!
- Prepare financial statements, including balance sheet, income statement and other reports, according to schedule, including consolidation and reporting
- Prepare journal entries related to payroll and other transactions, account reconciliations
- Drive improvement for the month-end and year-end close process
- Document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Maintain procure-to-pay platform
- Update sales tax filings for various states
- Assist with audits and tax returns as needed
- Ensure compliance with GAAP principles
Our take
Childcare and teaching is a profession fraught with pressures and paperwork and yet it remains relatively ill attended to by advances in tech and software. Brightwheel want to revolutionize this, focusing on facilitating the administrative and communicative relationship between schools, carers and parents or guardians.
As tech enters the classrooms there are various apps focusing on the education itself with fewer actually handling the communications for schools. Its platform helps increase parental and teacher engagement with students everyday, while helping small education businesses save money, time, and to grow.
Brightwheel is carving out a name for itself as a service valuable for its exciting and useful new updates. They were quick to adapt to school closures by offering distance learning capabilities and health testing. They also cater to childcare in lower-income areas with their freemium model. Since their $55 million funding round, if it remains on this course of steady, popular development and wide uptake, Brightwheel will likely achieve its goal of going public in a few years time.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$55m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Deliver Value for Customers
- Take Ownership
- Get Better Every Day
- Think Critically, Move Fast
- Dive Deep
- Trust, and Challenge
- Make it Happen
- Achieve Extraordinary Results
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dave Vasen
(CEO)Dave started his career at Morgan Stanley, before spending a year at Cisco and 3 years as a Bain Consultant. He worked at Amazon for 2 years, and after taking on several Advisory roles he founded Brightwheel in 2014.
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