Lead Accountant, Stitchfix
Shipping & Freight
$95.2-140k
+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units
Online personal styling
Open for applications
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$95.2-140k
+ Equity in the form of restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (or relevant field) and 5+ years combined of experience at a large accounting firm and/or with a large retail/eCommerce or manufacturing company
- You are proficient in Excel, PowerPoint; SQL, Oracle Cloud and Alteryx experience is a plus
- You have an aptitude for working with large sets of data and are a systems wizard
- You have an analytical mind and are always thinking of ways to streamline and improve processes or problems
- You have strong organizational and detail-orientation skills and the ability to handle multiple competing tasks simultaneously
- You are a strong communicator and leader who enjoys coaching, mentoring and developing others
- You have strong technical accounting skills and a detailed understanding of current GAAP standards
- You are comfortable leading in ambiguity and thrive in a dynamic environment
- You have strong personal integrity with the highest ethical standards
- Above all else, you are Bright, Kind, and Motivated by Challenge
What the job involves
- Stitch Fix is looking for a Lead Accountant to join our dynamic Finance team who is Bright, Kind, and Motivated by Challenge
- Stitch Fix is transforming the way people find what they love, and the Accounting team plays a key supporting role
- In this highly cross-functional role, you will partner with Operations, FP&A, and IT in the course of recording and analyzing transportation costs, as well as support strategic initiatives as Stitch Fix continually evolves our transportation strategy
- You will own the preparation and analysis around our transportation close process to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the Company’s transportation costs
- You will work alongside our transportation operations team in leveraging carrier data to provide insights about our transportation costs and analyze our shipping financial performance against budget
- Own the preparation of our complex accounting calculations for transportation costs, including accruals across several carriers in a dynamic and data-rich shipping environment
- Develop accounting processes as we on-board new carriers to expand our transportation offerings, ensuring accounting records are accurate and demonstrate compliance with SOX standards
- Streamline the analysis over transportation costs to obtain meaningful insights, verify the charges, explain period over period cost fluctuations, as well as enhance existing reporting on carriers as our processes become more dynamic
- Participate in process optimization projects that drive operational efficiencies and advance our mission to shift from a transactional to a transformational Finance organization. This includes an emphasis on automating existing manual processes through the use of SQL, Alteryx, and other tools
- Own the continual development and execution of control structures for transportation accounting in accordance with SOX 404 requirements
- Serve as a champion of our rich financial datasets and develop meaningful business insights and reporting for management
Our take
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company values
- Integrity
- Be an owner
- Raise the flag
- Keep equity at the center
- Innovation
- Put the client first
- Boldly create the future
- Solve at high speed
- Trust
- Win as a team
- Debate & commit
- Celebrate Stitch Fix grit
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Katrina Lake
(CEO)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
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