Proper is a quickly growing startup that values your skills, voice, and happiness.
We’re a team of developers, designers, engineers, accountants, CPAs, project managers, and creatives from all over the world. But we’re also surfers, hikers, Sichuan-eaters, photographers, artists, world travelers, meme lovers, and life-havers.
Together, we provide the most technologically advanced property accounting services in the world - and we think that’s pretty epic. We’re proud to be creating something new that improves people’s lives while working together in a culture of collaboration, respect, communication, joy, and personal growth.
Read more about what we do at Proper.ai
We’re proud to create something new that improves people’s lives while working together in a culture of collaboration, respect, communication, joy, and personal growth.
We’re seeking an Accountant I to join our team.
We are looking for someone with great attention to detail to work with a team of 8-10 accountants and help extract and enter accounting data accurately. Your data entry skills will support accounting operations. At Proper, we take pride in delivering amazing results, communicating effectively, and growing our business and this role will be instrumental in continuing that trend.
If that sounds like you and you’re excited by the idea of joining a world-class team that’s passionate about growing together, we look forward to hearing from you.
Proper is a San Francisco based tech startup. This position will be based remotely in Colombia
Role and Responsabilities
- Work with a team of 8-10 people to extract and input accounting-related information in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication with clients on a daily basis via email.
- Posting and processing journal entries to ensure all business transactions are recorded.
- Assist in the processing of balance sheets, income statements, and other financial statements according to legal and company accounting and financial guidelines.
- Update financial data in databases to ensure that information will be accurate and immediately available when needed.
- Adhere to standard operating procedures to ensure an optimal level of timeliness.
- Responsible for pulling bank statements and matching all transactions into the software for bank reconciliations.
- Responsible for following the protocols & SOPs established by the company to ensure quality in daily operations.
- Identify and flag unmatched and stale dated transactions (checks remain uncleared for 90 days or longer) to the team General Accountant for follow-up.
- Perform specific low-complexity activities for the manual rent invoice posting/cash application processes.
Accounts Payable
Bank Account Reconciliation
Accounts Receivable
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum of 1 year in AP/AR roles.
- Good understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices
- Intermediate knowledge of English, at minimum.
Preferred Experience
- Experience in transitioning or integrating SSC methodologies into a corporate environment.
- Experience working in or with a Shared Service Center.
- Familiarity with major accounting software such as Quickbooks, Yardi, AppFolio, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Attention to detail & ability to manage multiple tasks.
- Strong team player with the ability to work independently.
- Dealing in a fast-paced startup environment is a plus
- Software experience: Jira, Hubspot
Proper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment to work by offering the same opportunities to all applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, disability, national origins, marital status, or other characteristics. We base our talent search exclusively on competencies, abilities and potential.
Top Skills
What We Do
As of today, Proper has secured $20M in investments from Silicon Valley’s top VC companies and employs over 300 passionate problem solvers in six countries.
We’re developers, designers, engineers, accountants, CPAs, project managers, and creatives. But we’re also surfers, hikers, Sichuan-eaters, photographers, yogis, artists, world travelers, meme lovers, and life-havers. We believe that being able to show up as your full self while doing work that challenges you is the secret to happiness, so we work hard to instill human-centric values into everything we do.
Our penchant for streamlining processes combined with our property industry expertise is how we’re able to provide more cost-effective, efficient, scalable financial services that improve our customer’s profit margins.
So if you’re looking for the peace of mind that your books are being Properly, frugally, and expertly handled by a team of property accounting specialists? You’ve come to the right place.
And if you’re looking to join a team of international problem solvers who are collaborating in a culture that inspires personal growth, fosters creativity, and encourages playfulness? You’ve come to the right place, too.
Our Key Values:
• Feedback as the Way Forward: Feedback is how we grow, find empathy, and learn how to support each other.
• Opportunity as an Outlook: We see obstacles as opportunities to improve.
• Communication is the Expectation: We work in unison, set clear expectations, and share frequent updates.
• Fun While Getting it Done: Laughter and fun make working together even better.
• Respect Over Rank: As humble experts, we educate, support, and never treat anyone as less-than.
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