Accounts Payables Analyst

ClickHouse is focused on growing a vibrant user community and is a Cloud-first company. We are a dynamic and growing company, seeking a highly motivated Accounts Payables Analyst to join our Accounting team. The team is responsible for delivering a wide breadth of services to ensure the business is operating efficiently and effectively.  As an Accounts Payables Analyst, you will play a vital role in overseeing accounts payable activities, ensuring accurate bill coding, timely payments, and associated reconciliations, while also owning and improving related processes. This role requires proactively troubleshooting, independent work, attention-to-detail and dependability. 

What will you do:

Daily AP Operations

• AP inbox management: Invoices entered or acted upon within 24 business hours of receipt. Expectation is a clean AP inbox daily, with the exception of heavy close days. Escalating as necessary. Acting as the primary point of contact for all AP matters internally and externally.
• Process vendor invoices: enter, classify, code, and verify in AP and procurement systems across multiple international entities
• New vendor onboarding and maintaining existing vendor data (W9 collection, addresses, banking details, payment terms)
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies independently; Escalate as necessary

Analysis & Ownership

• Monitor AP and identify trends, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities
• Independently verify work before submission
• When errors are found, fix them and identify similar issues in prior work to prevent patterns
• Communicate proactively with spend owners and vendors
• Document processes changes and exceptions for continuity

Compliance, Close Support, and Ad Hoc

• Reconcile the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and properly posted; prepare other AP adjacent reconciliations. 
• Own W9 collection and assist year-end 1099 preparation and submission
• Support quarterly VAT reclaims for subsidiaries
• Assist with internal and external audits; providing support as needed related to the Accounts Payable function.
• Support the rollout of new systems that affect the accounts payable function.

What You Bring Along:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. 
• Proven experience (3-4 years) working in accounts payables, finance or accounting, preferably at a Cloud software company
• Preference for candidates who have experience using Bill.com, Expensify, Ramp, FloQast, Omnea and Netsuite.
• Proficient in Google Sheets/excel.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial analysis, and reporting.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Curiosity: you aren’t afraid to ask questions, and consider yourself a lifelong learner.
• Present & Accounted For: you enjoy engaging with others, and you express ownership over your work product and accountability to the process.
• Self-verification discipline: You independently review your work before submitting
• Ownership mentality: When you catch an error, you don't just fix it; you ask "what else might I have done wrong in similar situations?" and proactively review prior work.
• Follow-through: You see tasks through to completion, not "close enough." You communicate any roadblocks early.
• Process thinking: You're curious about why processes exist and how to improve them, not just executing steps.
• Independence: You troubleshoot issues, ask clarifying questions, and propose solutions, you don't escalate every ambiguity without trying to self resolve first.