What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Manager position at Clay?
About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality.
We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha—a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha.
Why is Clay the best place to work?
Accounting @ Clay
We are in hypergrowth mode, and as we scale, we’re building out our finance and accounting functions. This role is an opportunity to be the first Accounting Manager and lay the groundwork infrastructure for all things accounting at Clay.
We're looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented, and strategic Accounting Manager to build our accounting operations end-to-end. Reporting directly to the Controller, you’ll take charge of everything from monthly closes, technical memos, revenue recognition and process workflows. We focus on simplifying processes, leveraging automation, and using technology and AI to make our accounting processes smarter and more efficient. This is a unique opportunity to set up best-in-class accounting processes at an early-stage startup and scale them alongside the business.
What You’ll Do
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality.
We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha—a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha.
Why is Clay the best place to work?
- Customers love the product (100K users and growing)
- We’re growing a lot (6x YoY last year, and 10x YoY the two years before that)
- Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
- Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech
Accounting @ Clay
We are in hypergrowth mode, and as we scale, we’re building out our finance and accounting functions. This role is an opportunity to be the first Accounting Manager and lay the groundwork infrastructure for all things accounting at Clay.
We're looking for a hands-on, detail-oriented, and strategic Accounting Manager to build our accounting operations end-to-end. Reporting directly to the Controller, you’ll take charge of everything from monthly closes, technical memos, revenue recognition and process workflows. We focus on simplifying processes, leveraging automation, and using technology and AI to make our accounting processes smarter and more efficient. This is a unique opportunity to set up best-in-class accounting processes at an early-stage startup and scale them alongside the business.
What You’ll Do
- Build out all core accounting functions: Oversee the month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.
- Establish scalable accounting systems and controls: Implement financial systems, develop internal controls, accounting policies, and process documentation to support our next phase of growth.
- Technical accounting: Research and implement guidance around revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), stock-based compensation, and other complex areas.
- Improve Procure-to-Pay process: Ensure timely and accurate AP processing and reporting, optimize spend visibility, oversee vendor onboarding, purchase approvals, invoice management, and payments.
- Coordinate audits, tax, and compliance: Prepare for annual financial audits, tax compliance, and other regulatory reporting.
- Support strategic finance initiatives: Work cross-functionally to analyze financial results, automate processes, and help inform business decisions.
- 6–8 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Active CPA required. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Deep knowledge of US GAAP and technical accounting principles
- Fluency with accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, or similar), Excel/Sheets, and modern SaaS billing tools. SQL skills are a plus.
- Strong understanding of billing operations and systems. Stripe/Billing experience is a plus.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
- A mix of Big Four public accounting and startup or high-growth tech company experience
- Prior experience as an Accounting Manager or Senior Accountant in a startup environment is strongly preferred.