Senior Accountant

**Proper is a quickly growing startup that values your skills, voice, and happiness.**

We’re a team of developers, designers, engineers, accountants, CPAs, project managers, and creatives from all over the world. But we’re also surfers, hikers, Sichuan-eaters, photographers, artists, world travelers, meme lovers, and life-havers.

Together, we provide the most technologically advanced property accounting services in the world - and we think that’s pretty epic. We’re proud to be creating something new that improves people’s lives while working together in a culture of collaboration, respect, communication, joy, and personal growth.

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We’re proud to create something new that improves people’s lives while working together in a culture of collaboration, respect, communication, joy, and personal growth.

**We’re seeking a Senior Accountant to join our team.**

Proper is seeking a Senior Accountant with a collaborative, positive, proactive attitude, strong communication skills, and a passion for accounting in a fast-paced environment that’s continuously evolving.

If that sounds like you and you’re excited by the idea of joining a world-class team that’s passionate about growing together, we look forward to hearing from you.

Proper is a San Francisco based tech startup.
**This position will be based remotely in Colombia**

**Accounting Operations Department**

The accounting department is the engine of the company that provides the property management accounting services to clients of Proper. They perform every day accounting functions like payables and receivables, to monthly processes that flow into the final financial statements for the end users.

**Roles and Responsabilities**:

- Reviews more complex accounting transactions and processes including management fees, owner distributions, and owner financial statements.
- Oversees the work of staff produced by the accounting pod (i.e. move-ins, move-outs, new vendor setup, etc).
- Assists the Accounting Manager in the onboarding process of new clients that will be processed by the accounting team.
- Documents client accounting processes in SOPs that will be used to process client’s accounting tasks.
- Escalates team related processing issues to the Accounting Manager and helps in addressing the issues identified by the client.
- Responsible for the Quality Assurance for the work that is being produced by the direct reports: General accountants, AP specialists and Data entry clerks.
- Assists the Accounting Manager in balancing processing needs of the pod and ensures that work is distributed to team members in order to meet client deadlines

**Communication**:

- Interfaces with Accounting Manager and communicates client needs to the accounting team.
- Consolidates accounting related questions and inquiries from direct reports and helps resolve issues before engaging the client via the Accounting Manager.
- Escalation of performance issues of team members to the Accounting Manager.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to team members in order to develop property accounting management skills used in client processing.

**Qualifications**:

- Accounting Bachelor's degree
- 5-7 years of experience in accounting
- Intermediate MS-office or Google Suite experience.
- Advanced english.
- Proper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment to work by offering the same opportunities to all applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, disability, national origins, marital status, or other characteristics. We base our talent search exclusively on competencies, abilities and potential._