Senior Accountant

At Render, we’re dedicated to building a powerful and user-friendly cloud that simplifies hosting for every developer and team. Our platform supports a wide range of applications, from simple static sites to complex multi-service architectures. By offering the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their associated complexity and maintenance challenges, we enable our users to concentrate on product development instead of managing servers.

Our team is a diverse and talented group addressing universal challenges of software development. We prioritize rapid iteration while maintaining a strong focus on user experience, craft, and reliability. This commitment drives us to improve continually. Our organic, product-led growth has attracted over 2.5 million developers, with rapid growth of new developers signing up every month. Our customers trust Render for our reliable and scalable cloud with enterprise-grade capabilities, fully managed datastores, and advanced security and compliance features.

In January 2025, we reached a significant milestone by raising $80 million in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $157M. This investment enables us to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive, while catering to the evolving needs of the AI era.

Applying to Render

We’re seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join our growing team and help build a scalable foundation to support our rapid growth as a B2B SaaS, consumption-based business. Reporting to the Controller, you will work cross-functionally across the organization, owning core accounting processes and driving improvements that shorten close timelines, increase automation, and strengthen controls. The ideal candidate has a background in public accounting and is a CPA or working toward certification.

If you are organized, resourceful, eager to learn, and passionate about leveraging modern tools to make accounting faster, smarter, and more efficient, this role is for you. You’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a high-growth startup.

We are considering candidates to work out of our San Francisco HQ or remotely within the United States.

You will:

• Support the monthly financial close, including general ledger reconciliations, variance analysis, and preparation of management reporting packages

• Assist the Controller with audit preparation, compliance requirements, and tax filings

• Support accounting operations related to Payroll including but not limited to processing and reconciling deductions, benefits, 401K, flexible spending plans and related reconciliations

• Ensure quarterly and annual payroll tax filings are accurate and timely in coordination with our payroll provider

• Own the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process, including invoice coding, approval workflows, vendor payments, and compliance with financial controls

• Review vendor contracts and payment terms to ensure compliance with company policies and financial controls

• Maintain strong internal controls over payments, proactively identifying and mitigating risks in the P2P cycle

• Own reconciliations for payroll, bank, accounts payable, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, leases and other GL accounts

• Own lease accounting under ASC 842, including journal entries, reconciliations, and disclosures

• Oversee Travel & Expense (T&E) reimbursements and support implementation of a new travel tool

• Support system enhancements and process improvements, including potential system migrations and workflow optimizations

• Continuously improve accounting processes to shorten close timelines and increase automation, efficiency, and scalability

• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Operations, and other stakeholders to streamline payroll, procurement, payment, and expense management processes

• Take ownership of special projects and other responsibilities as needed in a fast-growing environment

 

We’re looking For:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance

• CPA or working towards becoming a CPA preferred

• 4+ years of experience is required

• Public accounting experience is required

• Tech industry experience is preferred

• Strong systems and Excel skills

• Good understanding of financial statements and reporting requirements required

• Experience in accounting for Fixed Assets, Accruals, Prepaids, Leases is preferred

• Ability to research and resolve issues, whether these are related to technical or operational accounting

• Strong analytical skills

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

 

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in a later-stage venture-backed environment.

• Systems experience: Quick Books Online,Ramp and Rippling

• Experience implementing or optimizing accounting/finance systems

 If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.

Benefits:

• Our openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is between $116,000 and $150,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, location and market demands.

• The opportunity is eligible for equity with early exercise options and extended exercise windows.

• 4 weeks of paid vacation, available from day one.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.

• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area and home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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