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About the Role

The Accounting Engineer is a new discipline at Clay, sitting at the intersection of accounting, finance systems, and data, with AI as the connective tissue. This role will own core accounting operations, build and optimize systems, and design automation workflows. You will also have a seat at the table on cross-functional projects, offering broad organizational exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close end-to-end, including journal entries, reconciliations, flux analysis, and reporting.
• Drive finance transformation and automation initiatives across the accounting function.
• Support audit readiness and explore real-time audit tooling using AI.
• Own Clay's ERP and connected finance systems, including integrations, data pipelines, and implementation.
• Evaluate and onboard new finance tooling, and 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.
• Systematically eliminate repetitive accounting work and build dashboards for real-time financial visibility.
• Partner with GTM, Product, and Operations on finance-adjacent projects.
• Support FP&A with data infrastructure and modeling.
• Act as the accounting team's connector to the broader organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of accounting experience, with a mix of public accounting and high-growth startup exposure.
• Hands-on operational accounting experience, including owning a close, managing reconciliations, and dealing with real-world data.
• Experience implementing or administering a finance system or ERP.
• Proficiency in SQL, including querying large datasets, writing joins, and debugging data issues.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) to accelerate and improve accounting or finance work.

Skills

• Accounting Operations
• Finance Systems
• ERP Systems
• Integrations
• Data Pipelines
• Automation
• AI Tools
• SQL
• Data Validation
• Dashboarding
• Financial Visibility
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Data Infrastructure
• Financial Modeling

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Education Level

• CPA license or active pursuit preferred

Benefits

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

About the Company

• Clay's mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality, viewing growth as a creative practice.
• The company helps thousands of customers, including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp, with unique data, signals, and AI research.
• Clay raised a $100M Series C in 2025 backed by investors like Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round, and crossed $100M in revenue.
• In 2026, the company announced its second employee tender offer in 9 months at a $5B valuation and launched a community equity round.
• Clay's community includes over 11,000 customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
• The company culture is unique, with team members pursuing diverse interests outside of work.
• Clay's operating principles include negative maintenance and non-attached action.
• The company has been featured in the NYT, Forbes, and First Round Review, and has a Glassdoor page with employee testimonials.