Accounting Engineer

The role

The Accounting Engineer will own core accounting operations and build systems to power them. You will design automation workflows using AI and partner on cross-functional projects across the organization.

What you will do

• Own the monthly close end-to-end including journal entries, reconciliations, flux analysis, and reporting
• Drive finance transformation and automation initiatives
• Support audit readiness as a point of contact for external auditors
• Own the ERP and connected finance systems including payroll, expense, equity, and billing
• Evaluate and onboard new finance tooling
• Maintain system documentation and SOD controls
• Build AI-powered workflows to automate reconciliations, variance analysis, and close tasks
• Write SQL to extract and validate data across systems
• Build dashboards for real-time financial visibility
• Partner with GTM, Product, and Operations on finance-adjacent projects

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of accounting experience with a mix of public accounting and high-growth startup exposure
• Hands-on operational accounting experience owning a close and managing reconciliations
• Experience implementing or administering a finance system or ERP
• Proficiency in SQL
• Demonstrated use of AI tools like Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT to improve accounting or finance work

Nice to have

• CPA license or active pursuit
• Familiarity with billing and revenue platforms such as Stripe, CPQ and Metering platforms
• Experience building or contributing to financial data models, dashboards, or BI tooling

Benefits

• All employees can work with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more

About the company

Clay is an AI company that builds infrastructure to help businesses grow through data and personalized campaigns. The company is building agents to help grow companies and serves customers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Visa.