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Accountant

Udemy

Udemy

Accountant

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    About us

    At Udemy, we’re on a mission to improve lives through the power of learning. We’re a leading global learning company and one of the world’s largest education platforms, with more than 57 million learners. Our goal is to provide flexible, effective skill development to empower organizations and individuals. 

    Talented people are everywhere, and the right opportunity can be hard to come by. That’s why we’re focused on revolutionizing learning, using our skills and expertise to help others develop theirs and reach their full potential. Individually, we bring our unique perspective to reimagine the way we share knowledge. Together, we can improve lives by making learning more accessible for our learners, our instructors, and businesses around the world.

    Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and the US. Learn more on our company page.

    About you

    You love rolling up your sleeves and diving into all activities associated with accounting, reporting, internal controls and compliance. You love digging into data and extracting insights. You are curious and have a deep need to understand the “why.” You are a close process fanatic with high attention to detail and sense of urgency. You are hardworking, detail oriented and demonstrate both a strong sense of ownership and good business sense. You possess a strong collaborative approach and are able to build effective relationships. You have strong organizational and communication skills and are able to prioritize, plan, perform and communicate activities and findings both in written and verbal form to individuals, management and auditors. You take initiative and are able to work in a dynamic environment across all levels of management and across functions and geographies with minimal supervision. You are confident, energetic, demonstrate good judgment and are able to influence outcomes globally. You are driven and eager to learn and grow in your career.

    About This Role

    The Accountant role is an extremely exciting and unique one at Udemy! The role reports directly to the Accounting Manager (based in the US) and will be a key decision maker and influencer as Udemy matures its processes as a high growth, newly established public company!   This position will be hands-on, developing best in class policies and processes and tightening up the close timetable. Interaction and coordination with colleagues in FP&A, Tax, Legal, HR and various other departments across Udemy to ensure proper accounting treatment and accurate financial results.

    What you'll be doing:

    • Own your part in the initiative to reduce month-end close by two days and develop strategies to improve accounting operations efficiencies, effectiveness, and scalability, including the development and execution of policy, processes, and systems changes

    • Prepare, and post journal entries including cash, fixed assets, prepaids, etc. into the accounting system for our multiple entities in multiple currencies

    • Own monthly financial statements and trend analysis for your areas to ensure completeness, timeliness and accuracy of results.

    • Collaborate with the Director of SOX to ensure a robust and effective controls environment over your impacted areas

    • Assist and ensure accounting systems scaling and ensuring all systems are being used to their full functionality.

    • Support internal/external audits of the company's financial statements, including preparation of audit schedules and responding to auditor questions and requests

    • Work on ad-hoc projects on an as needed basis

    What You'll Have:

    • 2+ years of progressive accounting experience

    • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related degree

    • Experience in NetSuite & Blackline preferred

    • Strong experience and knowledge in U.S. GAAP and SOX internal controls

    We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

    Life at Udemy

    We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone.

    Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

    We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences . From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

    Learning is what we do - inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

    Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning - that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

    We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. Learn more about our certification here and find out what it's like to work at Udemy on our blog .

    Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

    At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

    Udemy benefits:

    • Eligibility: Regular, full-time employees are eligible for Udemy’s benefit programs.

    • Health plans: Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% coverage for employee-only).

    • HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans available; generous HSA employer contributions for those enrolled in the HDHP medical plan.

    • Life/Disability: Employer-paid life insurance (supplemental available), in addition to short-term and long-term disability.

    • Retirement: Access to 401(k) with annual employer contribution.

    • Wellbeing: Corporate memberships for meditation and mindfulness, therapy and coaching, financial planning, primary care, tele-health, health advocacy, parent/newborn support, and employee discounts.

    • Education: Free access to the entire course library on the Udemy and Udemy Business platforms; annual stipend for external learning beginning at six months of employment.

    • Charitable matching program: Employer match of monetary contributions to eligible nonprofits and charities that carry a 501(c)(3) tax status (up to $100 per year).

    • Vacation: 15 days per year of Paid Time Off for hourly; flexible Discretionary Time Off for salaried.

    • Parental benefits: up to 12 weeks of leave at 100% pay for parents who take time off from work following the date of birth, adoption, or foster placement beginning at six months of employment; this amount is in addition to pregnancy-disability benefits at 100% pay, if applicable; a $25,000 lifetime benefit for reimbursement of eligible fertility, adoption, and surrogacy expenses; and access to Maven for unlimited virtual support for family building, prenatal and postpartum, menopause, parenting, and breastmilk shipping.

    • Holidays: 11 paid holidays throughout the year.

  • Industry
    E-Learning
  • About Us

    Udemy is the leading global marketplace for learning and teaching online, where more than 50 million students learn from over 175,000 courses taught by expert instructors in 75+ languages. Whether learning for professional development or personal enrichment, students can master new skills through self-paced, on-demand courses.