--- title: 'Accountant at Ahrefs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/accountant-ahrefs-singapore-a052pxrd8ppx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Accountant at Ahrefs - **Company:** Ahrefs - **Location:** Singapore - **Posted:** 2026-08-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ahrefsjobs/jobs/6163481004 ## Job description ## About Ahrefs Ahrefs is a SaaS marketing platform that helps businesses become discoverable and unmissable online. We offer a suite of tools for SEO, content marketing and website performance, backed by 15 years of web crawling data and increasingly powered by AI to deliver strategic insights at scale. We’re bootstrapped and profitable, and we have been for 15 years. There are no investors and no board, which means no outside timeline on our decisions and a finance function that exists to run the business rather than to prepare for the next round. We’re multinational, with offices in Palo Alto, Cambridge (MA), Singapore and Tokyo, and our culture is fast-moving, low-ego, and built on smart decisions and ownership. ## The role We’re looking for an accountant to run the day-to-day finance function across our five group entities, reporting to our Chief Accounting Officer and supervising a junior accountant. The work covers accounting, reporting and consolidation across the group, and tax compliance across the jurisdictions we sell in: corporate tax, withholding tax, VAT/GST and US state sales tax. We use automation and AI tooling to keep the finance function efficient, and there’s room to take that further. This role is based out of Ahrefs’ office in Singapore. This is an on-site role: we’re looking for someone who’ll be in the office with the team. ## What you’ll do Accounting and reporting - Run day-to-day accounting across the group, including month-end and year-end close, reconciliations and supporting schedules - Prepare statutory and management reporting, analyse the numbers, and investigate variances and unusual items - Perform group consolidation across five entities, reconcile intercompany balances, and manage intercompany billing, including reading the underlying agreements to work out what should be billed Revenue and receivables - Own revenue recognition across multiple billing platforms, reviewing billing data for correct treatment - Monitor receivables and prepare the impairment assessments, including at year end - Build the SOP for writing off uncollectible receivables and configure the billing platforms to apply it automatically Payments - Run recurring payment processing for two to three entities: payment instructions and batches through online banking, vendor invoice review and upload, chasing missing approvals and banking details, and resolving failed payments and bank queries Tax - Own corporate tax compliance across the group: computations, schedules, deadlines, and coordination with external advisors and tax authorities - Manage withholding tax, including DTAA treatment and annual Certificates of Residence across jurisdictions - Manage global VAT/GST compliance: monitor registration thresholds, coordinate new registrations and their setup in the billing platforms, and run recurring filings with Taxually - Manage US state sales tax: registrations and deregistrations as transactions migrate to the US entity, exemption certificates, franchise taxes and business licences, and the Loudoun County data centre property tax with the data centre team - Handle tax, VAT/GST and financial statement audits: schedules, supporting documentation, and responses to auditor and authority queries ## Team and process - Supervise and review the work of our junior accountant - Advise internal teams, and give the Support team clear answers on accounting, VAT/GST and withholding tax questions raised by customers - Find and take the opportunities to improve finance processes, controls and efficiency, using automation and AI tooling where it helps ## What you’ll need - 5+ years in accounting and financial reporting, across multiple entities and jurisdictions - A degree or professional qualification in accounting, finance or a related discipline - Group consolidation and intercompany experience - Corporate tax, withholding tax and VAT/GST compliance in more than one jurisdiction, and experience supporting audits by external auditors and tax authorities - SaaS revenue recognition and receivables, working across multiple billing platforms - Experience supervising junior accounting staff, and working with external tax providers such as Taxually, Avalara or TMF Group - Strong Excel, and Xero or a comparable accounting platform - An interest in using AI and automation to improve workflows and efficiency Location: Singapore. On-site. Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third party recruitment solutions for the roles we hire for. If at any point we need help, we'll let you know! ## About Ahrefs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ahrefs is a bootstrapped SaaS marketing platform that helps brands become discoverable online through AI-powered SEO and marketing intelligence tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped) - **Headquarters**: Singapore (Marina One East Tower, 7 Straits View, #08-02, Singapore 018936) - **Founded**: Not publicly available (references to “15 years of crawling the web” suggest ~2010) - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Marketing intelligence, SEO, AI-driven search & content marketing - **Target customers**: B2B – marketers, SEO professionals, content teams, agencies (44% of Fortune 500 use Ahrefs) - **Mission or purpose**: “First do it, then do it right, then do it better” – helping people see and be seen on the web; making brands discoverable and unmissable online. ## Products & Services - **Ahrefs AI Marketing Platform**: An all-in-one suite for planning, publishing, getting discovered, measuring, and optimizing online presence. Backed by 15 years of web crawl data and AI capabilities. - **Agent A**: An AI marketing agent with unrestricted access to Ahrefs’ full dataset and pre-built “skills” trained by the Ahrefs team. Supports switching between Claude, Gemini, and other models. - **Yep Search**: A separate search engine product (mentioned on the tech page). - **Core SEO Tools** (inferred from platform): Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Content Explorer, Rank Tracker, Webmaster Tools – all powered by a massive proprietary web crawl (170 trillion links, 41.9 billion keywords, 400 million domains indexed). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, no external funding) - **Key Metric**: User growth – 19,715 users joined in the last 7 days (as of mid-2025); 44% of Fortune 500 companies use Ahrefs. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: None – fully bootstrapped. - **Growth Signals**: Rapid AI product launch (Agent A), expanding from SEO into broader marketing intelligence, large-scale infrastructure (170T links, 41.9B keywords), global user base across 143 teammates and 26 locations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Bootstrapped independence**: No investor pressure, full control over product direction and long‑term vision. - **Proprietary crawl infrastructure**: In‑house systems crawled the entire web for 15+ years – unmatched data scale and freshness for marketing insights. - **OCaml & high‑performance engineering**: Backend built on OCaml for reliability and performance; contributes heavily to the OCaml ecosystem. - **AI with unrestricted data access**: Agent A has full access to Ahrefs’ raw data (not a filtered API), giving it a unique advantage over competitors. - **Simple, autonomous culture**: Engineers own products end‑to‑end; flat hierarchy, low-ego, and high trust. ## Strategic Focus - **AI‑first marketing**: Integrating AI deeply across the platform (Agent A, LLM tuning, dense retrieval) to turn raw data into actionable insights. - **Expanding beyond SEO**: Positioning Ahrefs as a comprehensive “AI marketing platform” that covers content, discovery, and measurement. - **Global team growth**: Hiring remotely and in hubs (Singapore, Palo Alto, Cambridge) to scale both engineering and marketing teams. - **Continuous infrastructure improvement**: Maintaining and evolving the world‑scale crawler, search engine, and data processing pipelines. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast‑moving, flat hierarchy, low‑ego, autonomy, and a “do it, do it right, do it better” motto. Described as “offbeat mix of people who love tech and challenges.” - **Hiring process**: No LeetCode, no coding puzzles, no whiteboard exercises. Takes home task and unstructured technical discussions. Recruiter screen → take‑home task → interview → offer. - **Remote & hybrid**: Work from anywhere with a remote equipment budget; also offices in Singapore, Palo Alto, and Cambridge. Spend 2 weeks a year in an office for in‑person time. - **Perks**: Generous PTO (flexible vacation), conference budget, annual retreat (ski trip), modern office setup with premium coffee equipment. - **Engineering highlights**: Trusted with high agency; a single developer can take a tool from idea to production; open source contributions; no red tape. ## Sources 1. [ahrefs.com/careers](https://ahrefs.com/careers) – Hiring process, culture, perks, locations 2. [ahrefs.com/about](https://ahrefs.com/about) – Mission, bootstrapped status, team size (143), locations, 15 years of crawling 3. [ahrefs.com/team](https://ahrefs.com/team) – Team photo, description of “offbeat” culture 4. [ahrefs.com/tech](https://ahrefs.com/tech) – Tech stack (OCaml, Melange/ReasonML, Python), infrastructure, engineering principles 5. 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