As a Staff Accountant at Everlaw, you’ll play a critical role in our daily financial operations. The primary focus of this position is on maintaining the integrity of our cash and accounts payable cycles. You will bring your experience with high-volume transactions and keen attention to detail to ensure our daily and month-end processes run smoothly

You’ll report to the Senior Accounting Manager and work closely with the GL accounting team. You will set your own bar, expanding your accounting skills while directly contributing to our team's success and our mission to promote justice by illuminating truth.

This is a full-time non-exempt position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.

Getting started

We’re committed to your success and want you to feel like a part of our team! You’ll go through our standard onboarding process, which will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals.
We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1. We’re excited to find ways for you to contribute, and will create room for you to learn and grow along the way.

In your role, you'll...

Manage High-Volume Cash Operations: Perform daily cash application for all incoming customer payments and manage cash reconciliation for all operating accounts across both US and UK entities.
Drive Accounts Payable: Process approximately 200 AP invoices per month, ensuring alignment with Everlaw’s procurement process. Additionally, this position will be responsible for the review and approval of employee expense reports checking for accuracy and policy compliance.
Execute Month-End Close: Finalize all cash reconciliations, prepare reconciliation schedules, post accruals, and provide flux commentary.
Maintain Financial Records: Book all cash-related journal entries and collaborate cross-functionally to gather necessary support for transactions.
Improve Processes: While comfortable with repetitive day-to-day tasks, you will actively contribute to team-wide initiatives around process improvement, automation, and efficiency gains.
Support the Team: Perform other accounting and financial duties as requested from time to time by the Senior Accounting Manager.

About you

Experience: You have at least 3 years of experience in an accounting role, with specific expertise in high volume reconciliations.
Operational Mindset: You are comfortable executing daily tasks with high accuracy and utilize your prioritization skills to meet deadlines.
Detail-Oriented & Proactive: Uphold data integrity by looking beyond the process—proactively identifying, investigating, and resolving irregularities.
Process Oriented: You thrive in a process-driven work environment and look for ways to make workflows more efficient.

Pluses

You have experience in Google sheets and Microsoft Excel.
You have experience working in a startup environment.
Experience with Netsuite, Zip, or Celigo’s Cash Application Module

Work Authorization

You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that currently, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas for this role.

Benefits

The expected hourly rate for this role is between $42.79 - $53.85, or $89,000 - $112,000 on an annualized basis. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
Participation in our equity program
401(k) retirement plan with company matching
Health, dental, and vision insurance
HSAs and FSAs for various expenses
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
Paid parental leave and sick leave
17 paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
Access to mental health and wellness resources like membership to Modern Health
A generous L&D stipend for your personal growth
Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

Perks

A beautiful office in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt
Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays
Monthly home internet reimbursement
Ability to select your hardware of choice (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup
A wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office
Company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your team
Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
Learning and career development opportunities (and a generous budget!)
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Pursue Truth While Finding Yours

At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work. That’s why we’re committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you!

About Everlaw

We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today.

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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