Staff Accountant, Crafty

• Financial Accuracy & Reconciliation: You demonstrate strong attention to detail in managing financial records, ensuring accuracy in transactions, reconciliations, and reporting
• Problem-Solving & Analytical Thinking: You proactively identify potential issues and address them promptly, maintaining a positive outlook in challenging situations
• Process Optimization & Efficiency: You continuously seek opportunities to streamline and improve financial processes, such as invoicing, payment collection, and expense management, leveraging automation tools to reduce errors and enhance efficiency
• Team Collaboration: You work well with others to achieve shared goals, providing and receiving constructive feedback to enhance team performance
• Clear Communication: You effectively convey information and ideas clearly and concisely, fostering understanding and engagement
• Resourcefulness: You remain flexible and proactive as circumstances evolve, demonstrating a hardworking and resourceful approach
• Regulatory Compliance: You adhere to relevant financial regulations, internal controls, and industry standards, proactively identifying and mitigating risks in accounts receivable, accounts payable, and broader accounting activities

Desirable

• Report directly to the Accounting Manager
• Crafty is seeking a Staff Accountant to report to the Accounting Manager. This role will primarily focus on month-end close but will also involve other accounting areas and cross-training
• Month-End Close: Record journal entries, prepare reconciliations, and assist in building close processes, including systems implementation and internal reporting with the data team
• Accounts Receivable: Assist the Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist with reviewing overdue balances, following up with clients biweekly, and uploading invoices into client portals
• Cash Flow Support: Support cash flow initiatives by assisting in the tracking of AR collections, payment timing, and vendor payment scheduling to help improve working capital efficiency
• Client Contract System Setup: Provide support in the process of setting up client accounts in our Crafty internal system, including contracts, payment profiles, recurring orders, and updating systems like Tableau, NetSuite, and HubSpot
• Accounts Payable: Accurately input and process invoices into our expense management system (Ramp)
• Client Billing Collaboration: Collaborate with the Client Success and Data teams to support client billing accuracy and timeliness, helping to investigate discrepancies and suggest process improvements
• Sales Tax: Perform monthly reconciliations between Crafty’s internal system and our tax automation platform (Avalara)
• Management Analysis: Work closely within the accounting department to complete in-depth analysis for company fluctuations on a month-over-month basis for Crafty’s income statement and balance sheet. Support regional financial analysis by helping track revenue and expenses by fulfillment market, contributing to the analysis of market-level profitability and performance
• Other: Assist with external audit requests, streamline accounting processes, ensure compliance with GAAP, tax regulations, and internal controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Contribute to the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for recurring accounting tasks to support process consistency and future scalability
• This role offers opportunities for cross-training in other accounting areas to enhance team efficiency
• Close Accuracy & Timing: Contribute to the team’s objective of completing the monthly financial close process within 6 business days, maintaining fewer than 2 post-close adjustments per quarter by September 2025
• Reconciliation Completion: Ensure 100% completion of all monthly account reconciliations by Day 5 of each close cycle, starting in September 2025