Accountant

Traba

Traba

Accounting & Finance
New York, NY, USA
Posted on May 21, 2025

Traba’s mission is to empower businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Traba is a technology company that is revolutionizing the broken staffing industry through a marketplace that connects light industrial businesses with reliable talent while providing workers with flexible and meaningful opportunities. By connecting both, new levels of productivity, earning potential, and avenues for growth are unlocked. We’re proud to be backed by the world’s best investors, such as Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

About the Role

We're hiring an Accountant to join our fast-paced Accounting team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a high-growth startup environment and is passionate about building scalable systems, improving financial processes, and driving operational excellence. You’ll work closely with Finance, GTM, and Product leaders to support billing, collections, and internal reporting—critical functions that power Traba’s business engine.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end invoicing and collections workflows, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and scale

  • Manage Traba’s T&E process, reviewing employee expense submissions, enforcing policy compliance, and ensuring timely approvals and reimbursements via Ramp

  • Maintain and enhance financial systems and tools (e.g., QuickBooks, Stripe, Upflow), helping ensure clean data and smooth handoffs across teams

  • Partner with internal stakeholders to resolve payment issues, track customer credits, and reconcile discrepancies

  • Create and manage dashboards to monitor billing and payment KPIs such as DSO, AR aging, and cash application performance

  • Support financial close processes by preparing reconciliations and reporting packages

  • Collaborate cross-functionally to identify and implement process improvements in revenue operations

  • Help evaluate and integrate new tools to streamline billing, collections, and reporting

What You’ll Need

  • 2–4 years of experience in financial operations, accounting, or business systems, ideally in a high-growth environment

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; attention to detail is second nature

  • Familiarity with accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks), spreadsheets, and financial workflows

  • Experience managing expense reporting systems like Ramp or similar T&E tools

  • Experience working with or alongside engineering/product teams to improve finance tooling is a plus

  • Clear and proactive communication style, with comfort managing cross-functional workflows
    Bias for action and a desire to improve systems, not just run them

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with startup hours

Bonus Points

  • Proficiency in SQL and comfort working with data

  • Prior experience using tools like Stripe, Upflow, Retool, or NetSuite

  • Understanding of marketplace, staffing, or labor-oriented business models

Benefits

  • 📈 Start-up equity

  • 💰 Competitive Salary

  • 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage

  • 🍽️ Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees

  • 🚍 Commuter benefit

  • 🎤 Team building events

  • 🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit

  • 🌴 Flexible PTO

  • ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

Our Values

Dream Big - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.

Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.

Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.

Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.

What is Light Industrial Labor?

Light industrial labor drives the efficiency of global supply chains, encompassing essential, entry-level roles in warehouses and distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage day-to-day operations that ensure goods move seamlessly to meet growing consumer and business demands. It’s a $200B+ global market and a critical part of keeping goods moving smoothly in today's economy.