HappyRobot
Head of Accounting
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$16kDetected 75 days ago
Computer VisionComplianceFinancial AnalysisAccountingQuickBooksLogisticsERPCustomer SuccessPublic SpeakingAdaptabilityGAAPInternal AuditNetSuite
About the role
- HappyRobot is hiring a Head of Accounting - a builder and owner who will bring our accounting function in-house and establish the financial foundation for our next phase of growth.
- You need to be operationally sharp, deeply curious about how the business works, and willing to roll up your sleeves every single day.
Responsibilities
- Own close: Run the monthly close end-to-end - journal entries, reconciliations, financial statements - with accuracy and improving speed over time. Establish a close calendar and repeatable processes that get tighter every month.
- Build the accounting foundation: Design and document accounting policies, internal controls, and workflows from the ground up with the Head of Finance. There is a lot of white space, which is both the challenge and the opportunity.
- Lead order-to-cash: Own the full cycle from invoicing through collections - working cross-functionally with Sales and Customer Success to ensure accuracy, reduce time-to-payment, and flag issues early.
- Drive ERP selection and implementation: Evaluate our current tools and lead the process of selecting and implementing the right ERP for where we're going.
- Identify and adopt the right AI finance tools (including our own): We build AI for a living - we expect our own finance function to use it intelligently.
- Prepare us for our first audit: Own audit readiness end-to-end: building audit-ready workpapers, managing the relationship with external auditors, and ensuring we can move through our first audit efficiently and cleanly.
- Support strategic decisions: Partner with the Head of Finance on financial analysis, diligence support, and any corporate development activity. You'll be a thought partner, not just a reporter of numbers.
- Ensure compliance: Own tax filings (federal, state, local), entity-level compliance, and any relevant regulatory requirements. Know when to manage internally and when to engage outside counsel or advisors.
- HappyRobot is the infrastructure for enterprises to build and orchestrate AI workforces.
- We started in logistics, built our own voice stack, models, and orchestration layer from the ground up, and are now bringing that infrastructure to every enterprise that runs the real economy.
Requirements
- You're as comfortable chasing down a late payment as you are presenting a close package to leadership.
- Clear communicator: You can explain accounting concepts to engineers, salespeople, and founders without jargon.
Nice to have
- 10-16 years of relevant experience: Big 4 or national firm experience (2-4 years) is a strong signal - the rigor, audit exposure, and breadth of client work translates well to this role.
- Experience at a high-growth startup is a plus but not required.
- Systems fluency: You've worked with ERP systems (NetSuite, QuickBooks, or similar) and have opinions about what works and what doesn't.
Skills
- Proactively identify where AI-powered tools (for close automation, reconciliation, AP, etc.) can eliminate manual work and improve accuracy.
- Bring a systems-thinking mindset - understand what integrates well, what will scale, and what the real cost of switching will be later.
Compensation
- Top-Tier Compensation - Competitive salary + equity in a high-growth startup.
Benefits
- Learn more about our vision in our manifesto. https://www.happyrobot.ai/blog/manifesto
- Bonus if you've been through an ERP selection or implementation before.
- Competitive salary + equity in a high-growth startup.
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Healthcare, dental, vision coverage.
Company info
- closing the books, owning order-to-cash, preparing us for our first audit, selecting and implementing the right ERP and AI-powered finance tools, and designing the processes and controls that will scale with us.
- This is a hands-on, high-ownership role at a critical inflection point - not a role for someone who wants to maintain what exists, but for someone energized by building from scratch.
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