Accounting Engineer

Role Summary

ACCOUNTING ENGINEER @ CLAY

At Clay, we believe the future of accounting is not just about closing the books accurately; it is about closing them intelligently. Just as we pioneered the Go-To-Market Engineer (GTME) role to reimagine how sales and operations intersect with AI, we are now doing the same for finance and accounting.

The Accounting Engineer is a new discipline we are defining from the ground up. It sits at the intersection of three historically separate worlds: accounting, finance systems and data. The connective tissue between all three is AI. This is not a hybrid role as an afterthought; it is an intentional choice about how Clay's accounting function will scale.

You will own core accounting operations, build and optimize the systems that power them, and design the automation workflows that make everything faster and more accurate. Beyond the core function, you will have a seat at the table on cross-functional projects from product and GTM analytics to finance infrastructure initiatives, giving you exposure across the organization that a traditional accounting role simply does not offer.

Responsibilities

Accounting Operations

• 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

Finance Systems

• 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

Automation & AI

• 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

Cross-Functional Special Projects

• 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

Requirements

• 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

NICE TO HAVES

• CPA license or active pursuit preferred
• Familiarity with billing and revenue platforms (Stripe, CPQ and Metering platforms) and their accounting integrations
• Experience building or contributing to financial data models, dashboards, or BI tooling

About the Company

ABOUT CLAY

AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay's mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential.

Clay predicts the next best action for your business and then helps you take it. We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies. Then, we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it, including emails, ads, landing pages, and workflows that make reps more productive. Now, we're building agents that can help grow your company for you. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Visa — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.

In 2026, we raised a $115M Series D https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F09%2F09%2Fbusiness%2Fdealbook%2Fclay-ai-fundraising.html%3Fsmid%3Durl-share%26unlocked_article_code%3D1._1A.E5rN.MeYsbgEsUKbB&urlhash=XS4q&mt=4bpSf4a8omAKuAHqAqZx6C11QpbLK_QwIhSV7gSf4Wf9aywPF_KBSiX9IkWE1AhXBEjPH8mK6fAEN7CMFlpvo0lPAtKRjs-dhgzYqHiVKUMCRtw0jScFgxWCRRfYs4HCX0YL9L6PCQz-edBLinvRdU_TaVUL2dA3&isSdui=true&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BoQmIsufoRJm7X2HC5Rqd%2Fw%3D%3D at $7.1B Valuation led by Wellington — and are on track to cross $200M in revenue this quarter. We also launched a $1M Scholarship fund for GTME Education.

Some things to know about us

• Our community http: //community.clay.com includes 17,000+ customers, 200+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs https://luma.com/claylive, and 30k members on Slack.
• Our culture https: //nextplayso.substack.com/p/spotlight-clay is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
• All employees can work with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
• Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/61477f2c24a826836f969afe/685d83a71452245cc1129791_4d770abfd83e276ec15315a2e06945bd_Clay2025_OperatingPrinciples.pdf.
• Read about us in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html, Forbes http://google.com/search?q=forbes+clay&rlz=1C5OZZY_enUS1155US1155&oq=forbes+clay&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBBzkzM2owajSoAgOwAgHxBVAe8UAxJx_p&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8, First Round Review https://review.firstround.com/podcast/inside-clays-unconventional-path-to-1-25b/, and more https://www.clay.com/press.

Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Clay-EI_IE9850794.11,15.htm page!