Staff Accountant II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and manage the comprehensive Procure-to-Pay (P2P) lifecycle, which includes procurement intake, purchase requisitions, PO issuance, vendor onboarding, invoice coordination, and procurement operations.

• Act as the operational leader for procurement workflows and systems, encompassing guided procurement tools and intake processes.

• Evaluate incoming purchase requests for completeness, business justification, coding accuracy, pricing support, departmental ownership, and suitable payment methods prior to approval routing.

• Coordinate procurement requests among FP&A, Legal, Security, IT, Engineering, Accounts Payable, and business stakeholders to ensure timely progress and resolution.

• Oversee procurement SLAs, request aging, and operational bottlenecks to enhance procurement efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

• Identify opportunities to enhance procurement operations through automation, AI-enabled workflows, document capture, operational reporting, and process optimization.

• Establish and uphold company-wide procurement and spending policies to minimize non-compliant purchasing activities and enhance budget accountability.

• Ensure procurement activities align with SOX-readiness objectives and maintain organized documentation to support audit and IPO readiness requirements.

• Collaborate closely with FP&A to monitor actual spending against departmental budgets, offering variance analysis and forecasting insights.

• Conduct ongoing reviews of open purchase orders and procurement requests to assess their validity, determine if goods or services have been received, and ascertain whether invoices are outstanding; follow up with requesters and vendors to obtain invoices if needed.

• Analyze POs for closure opportunities, including partially used POs that no longer need to remain open, and finalize requests once remaining obligations are settled.

• Assist in executing compliant remediation paths when spending is initiated outside the standard procurement process, which may include facilitating an after-the-fact PO request when necessary.

• Lead monthly reviews of open POs to evaluate remaining commitments and determine the appropriate PO accruals to support month-end closing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing procurement, sourcing, or Procure-to-Pay operations in a high-growth SaaS, cybersecurity, or technology setting.

• Strong understanding of procurement operations, vendor onboarding, purchasing controls, and cross-functional approval workflows.

• Experience in negotiating enterprise software agreements, cloud infrastructure contracts, and vendor commercial terms.

• Familiarity with procurement compliance, audit readiness, and SOX-oriented operational controls.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 5 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or Procure-to-Pay operations.

• Strong understanding of the financial aspects of procurement, including accruals, GL coding, and the effect of contracts on the balance sheet.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Equity package in the form of stock options.

• Career development opportunities.