Accounting Associate

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions from fashion, beauty, electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants. Whatnot has something for everyone.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

The Whatnot Finance team consists of StratFP&A, Tax, and Controllership. The Controllership team is responsible for financial reporting, payroll, year-end audits, and accounting operations.

• Collaborate on month-end close: Responsible for assigned monthly GL close tasks, which includes various journal entries, reconciliations, analytics, and variance explanations. 
• Ensure efficient day-to-day operations: Assist in the creation and management entity level reporting in Netsuite and day to day finance operational tasks in assigned areas including ongoing process improvement.
• Support Ad Hoc Projects and requests: Support external audit requirements related to specific areas of responsibility, own ad-hoc projects as necessary
• Cross-functional partnership: Manage assigned projects and collaborate with cross-functional team members within and outside of Finance in delivering impactful, high quality information to our business partners

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles hubs. 

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next Accounting Associate you should have 2-3+ years professional experience in public accounting, plus:

• BA/BS in Accounting; CPA is desired
• Detailed understanding of month-end close processes and thorough US GAAP expertise
• Experience auditing companies in the e-commerce/tech industries preferred
• Advanced Excel and data manipulation skills
• Proven ability to succeed in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment while running tight deadlines
• Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership, takes initiative to simplify and improve processes

💰Compensation

For US-based applicants: $95,000/year to $105,000/year + benefits + equity

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance on both food and wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.