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title: 'Staff Accountant, Financial Operations at Paraform'
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# Staff Accountant, Financial Operations at Paraform

- **Company:** Paraform
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $110k–$130k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/4454a44b-8b6a-4ff2-b1d9-654d91299677

## Job description

## About the Role

We're hiring a Staff Accountant, Financial Operations person to own the day-to-day accounting at a fast-growing marketplace. You'll run accounts payable end to end, support invoicing and collections, and own part of the monthly close. You'll report to our Senior Manager, Accounting and work closely with our VP Finance and FP&A. You'll learn how a marketplace works financially: placement invoicing, recruiter payouts through Stripe, clawbacks and refunds on rescinded offers.

## What you'll do

Own accounts payable. Process recruiter payouts and vendor bills, review expense reports and reimbursements against policy, and confirm approvals follow our signatory and spend rules. Support accounts receivable. Prepare client invoices for placements, apply cash, track aging, and run collections follow-up on overdue accounts. Handle placement adjustments. Process refunds, credits, and recruiter clawbacks for fired, rescinded, and reneged offers against contract terms. Own your part of the close. Prepare journal entries, accruals, and supporting schedules; reconcile Stripe activity (payouts, fees, refunds) to the GL; complete assigned balance sheet reconciliations on the close calendar. Support audit and tax. Pull and organize support for our auditors' request list and for tax and payroll-related requests. Document and improve. Document the process and automate the manual steps. We use AI heavily and expect finance to as well.

## What we're looking for

- 1–3 years of accounting experience, ideally at a startup or in public accounting. Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
- Has done AP and AR: processed payments, applied cash, followed up on overdue invoices.
- Knows debits and credits, accruals and reconciliations. Can explain why a balance is off.
- Strong Excel/Google Sheets. Comfortable with large transaction exports and pivot tables.
- Organized. Hits close deadlines.
- Bonus: a marketplace or usage-based business; CPA eligible or in progress.

The ideal candidate brings

- 1–2 years in a startup accounting role or Big 4 / regional audit, wants to own a process end to end
- Stripe experience: payments, payouts, fee reconciliation to the GL
- CPA-track

## About Paraform

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace, modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We connect companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately. We believe recruiting works best when human judgment is paired with AI that truly understands hiring. That's why we treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors, and build the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success. Industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch hire through Paraform, and we grew revenue 8× last year. We're backed by Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, and the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more. Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. For more on where we're headed, read our [company vision](https://www.paraform.com/blog/the-talent-company).

## About Paraform

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paraform is an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and custom AI agents collaborate to help companies fill critical roles faster and more accurately.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $65M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John and Jeff (co-founders; full names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Internet Marketplace Platforms, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – high-growth startups to category-leading enterprises (e.g., Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, Decagon, Cognition, Thomson Reuters); also serves SMB and mid-market companies
- **Mission**: “Building the talent infrastructure of the 22nd century” – making hiring exceptional talent as easy as pressing a button.

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Hiring Platform**: Combines a marketplace of specialized expert recruiters with proprietary AI agents that learn from hiring outcomes to surface and match the best candidates. Includes tools for sourcing, candidate matching, CRM, notetaking, scheduling, and back-office support.
- **Recruiter Marketplace**: Connects companies with vetted recruiters who have deep domain networks; recruiters get access to high-quality clients, AI tools, and business development support.
- **AI Recruiting Agents**: Custom AI agents that act on matching intelligence – running workflows, surfacing candidates, and automating follow-ups.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $65M (Series B announced March 2026)
- **Key Metrics**: 1,000+ customer companies; 90 team members; recruiters on the platform have earned over $50M to date; average candidate hired earns ~$260K/year (total comp often $300K–$400K).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Felicis, A* Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures; angel investors include CTO of Palantir, co-founders of Canva and YouTube, COO of Stripe, President of Shopify, CPO of Uber.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid customer growth (1,000+ companies), high recruiter earnings (some exceed $300K/month, $1M+/year), expansion into verticals with acute talent scarcity.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Proprietary data on hiring outcomes that compounds with every placement – creating signals no other platform has.
- **Human + AI Synergy**: AI agents handle repetitive tasks and pattern matching, while expert recruiters provide contextual insight (e.g., motivation, culture fit) that AI cannot easily infer.
- **Network Effects**: More recruiters attract more companies, which generate more data and better matches, reinforcing the platform’s intelligence.
- **Speed**: Companies typically meet their eventual hire within ~12 days, significantly faster than traditional processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the marketplace**: Grow both customer and recruiter bases rapidly.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Invest in models that learn from real hiring outcomes and expand the agentic platform.
- **Vertical expansion**: Target talent-scarce verticals (engineering, GTM, finance, legal) and build infrastructure for modern, outcome-driven hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & Equity**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer $140K–$290K, Applied ML Engineer $190K–$240K, Product Manager $150K–$250K) plus meaningful equity.
- **Benefits**: 100% healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) with dependent plans; 401k; flexible PTO; daily catered meals by an in-house chef; Bay Club gym membership; Ramp corporate card; annual company offsites (e.g., Hawaii, Tokyo, Sydney, New York).
- **Office Policy**: In-person at San Francisco headquarters; roles listed as “San Francisco” with no explicit remote option.
- **Culture**: “We hire the best and treat them accordingly” – ownership mindset, high autonomy, focus on impact.

## Sources
1. [paraform.com/about](https://www.paraform.com/about)
2. [paraform.com/careers](https://www.paraform.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paraformxyz)
4. [paraform.com/blog/series-b](https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-b)
5. [paraform.com](https://www.paraform.com/)

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