Flytedesk is the full-service ad buying platform that is transforming college media by connecting brands and college students via an online media buying platform. As the largest media network of college students in the U.S., Flytedesk allows advertisers to reach 20 million students at scale across all on-campus media channels including print, digital, outdoor, social media, radio and more. Flytedesk’s self-serve platform automates the college advertising experience by giving media buyers the tools to create, book, manage, and measure national campaigns in just minutes. Flytedesk was founded in 2015 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Overview & Responsibilities

We are looking for an accounting rockstar to join the Flytedesk team and help professionalize this important function. You will come in and own all of accounting, including:

• Facilitation of the company’s bookkeeping activities, maintaining Chart of Accounts and General Ledger, including:

  • Manage payroll, and work with our payroll provider to make sure all state and federal filings are made accurately and on time.

  • Manage the processing and recording of all customer invoices to ensure that receivables are collected in a timely manner.

  • Manage the processing and recording of all vendor bills to ensure payables are accurate and sent in a timely manner.

  • Manage accounts receivable and customer credit application processes

  • Develop and own the company’s month-close accounting processes, including monthly reconciliations, prepaid expenses, A/P, A/R and other accrual entries.

  • Assist with the annual financial statement audit and corporate income tax returns

• Play an active role in financial reporting, capital formation, revenue recognition, risk management, insurance and contract administration

• Help prepare financial statements, budgets, cash flow analysis, and periodic ad hoc reports

• Track and manage our terms and conditions, contracts and external publisher relationships

• Participate in the design and build of automated systems and processes to achieve scale

Your Team

For this position, the team currently consists of Kirsten Suddath (VP of Finance & Operations) and Kit Summers (People & Operations Analyst ). You will report to Kirsten and have access to our senior leadership team, Alex Kronman (CEO), Katy McNeill (VP, Product) and Piper Jackson-Sevy (VP, Growth). Kit and Kirsten have done all of the bookkeeping and accounting up until this point, so they’re excited for someone to come in and own this function and help develop automated processes to help Flytedesk scale its operations.

Culture

We hire people, not functions. Startups are hard, and constantly changing, so you need to be able to carve out your own role to thrive at Flytedesk. We look for self-starters, who can problem-solve as well as they can execute. We look for grit and kindred-spirits, we’re a family and we work for each other to get where we want to go. We don’t want to hire people who just fit into our culture, we want people who help shape it.

We’re asking you to spend a large portion of your life with us, so we want you to have a good time as you’re working hard to help build our collective future. That means endless snacks, a coffee shop house account, birthday parties, dogs in the office, and an expectation that we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

Values

Our culture is built on a small, but core group of values. When we meet tension points, it’s easy to reference the following values and see what the right decision is. We make a point to call these out in our job descriptions because we’ve learned that someone whose values and motivations are aligned with Flytedesk’s will most likely be successful at Flytedesk (and vice versa). Please take the time to read and understand our values - they’re the biggest indicator if this is going to be a good match.

• Make it work - our biggest successes have come from doing things that couldn't be done, we are a collection of individuals who are willing to do what it takes

• Lean, rabid, hungry - we get excited at doing a lot with a little and are motivated by this mentality

• Remember why we started - flytedesk was founded on the idea of empowering student journalism, every decision we make is for the benefit of the publishers we work with

• Growth as a goal - we put the team ahead of the individual, are constantly asking better of ourselves and one another, and check our egos at the door to move the company forward

• Be all-in - to put it bluntly: this isn’t a job for people who aren’t 100% committed, being on the ground floor and in the trenches of a high-growth startup takes dedication to the cause

Skills & Qualities

Must have

• 2+ years accounting experience required, including full-cycle experience (GL, AP, AR)

• Detail and deadline oriented, strong time management and organizational skills, and self-direction.

• The ability to collaborate across functions and think innovatively.

Nice to have, but not required

• You know how advertising works (and if not, you should be a quick learner and able to pick it up)

• FP&A experience

• Experience with QuickBooks online

The Fine Print

• Salary DOE + equity

• This is a full-time position

• This position is based out of our downtown Boulder office

• Starting asap

• Flytedesk is an At-Will and Equal Opportunity Employer

• Benefits

  • Health Insurance

  • LTD and Workers Compensation insurance

  • Work Macbook

  • Untracked PTO and holiday paid time off

  • Annual professional development budget

  • Boulder office with rooftop deck, Flatiron views, and thai place across the street

  • RTD EcoPass