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Accounting Engineer

Clay· 400 - G&A
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New York$130k - $160kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Accounting Engineer is a newly defined role at Clay that combines accounting, finance systems, and data with AI to scale the accounting function. Owns core accounting operations, builds and optimizes systems, and designs automation workflows while participating in cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

  • Own the monthly close end-to-end (journal entries, reconciliations, flux analysis, reporting) and drive finance transformation/automation initiatives across the function
  • Support audit readiness as a key point of contact for external auditors, exploring real-time audit tooling using AI
  • Own Clay's ERP and connected finance systems (payroll, expense, equity, billing), including integrations, data pipelines, and ongoing implementation efforts
  • Evaluate and onboard new finance tooling, and maintain system documentation and SOD controls as the stack scales
  • Build AI-powered workflows (Claude, Cursor, etc.) to automate reconciliations, variance analysis, and close tasks, writing SQL to extract and validate data across systems
  • Systematically eliminate repetitive accounting work and build dashboards for real-time financial visibility — the goal is a shorter close every quarter
  • Partner with GTM, Product, and Operations on finance-adjacent projects, and support FP&A with data infrastructure and modeling
  • Act as the accounting team's connector to the broader org, helping shape how the function grows

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of accounting experience, with a mix of public accounting and high-growth startup exposure
  • Hands-on operational accounting experience: you have owned a close, managed reconciliations, and dealt with messy real-world data
  • Experience implementing or administering a finance system or ERP
  • Proficiency in SQL; comfortable querying large datasets, writing joins, and debugging data issues independently
  • Demonstrated use of AI tools (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) to accelerate and improve accounting or finance work

Skills

Required:SQLAI tools for accountingERP / Finance System administrationAccounting
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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