Tribe AI Accounting Lead at Tribe AI owning end-to-end accounting functions including monthly close, revenue recognition, client billing, and financial reporting. Partner with account GMs, People team, auditors, and tax advisors.
Responsibilities
You'll own our accounting function end to end: the monthly close, revenue recognition, client billing, and financial reporting. You'll be the person who does accounting at Tribe — a role we're carving out so the close gets faster and cleaner as we scale. You'll partner closely with our account GMs, our People team, and our external auditors and tax advisors.
Own the monthly close
Run the full close: bank and card reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, depreciation, and balance sheet reconciliations
Book stock-based compensation, lease entries (ASC 842), and FX revaluation on foreign balances
Own the close calendar, review journal entries, and keep shortening the close
Revenue and billing
Own revenue recognition and the deferred revenue rollforward under ASC 606 for our project-based client work
Issue client invoices on contract schedules and run a monthly review with account leads to confirm billable amounts, milestones, and hours
Resolve invoicing exceptions — milestone slips, change orders, holdbacks — and review new contracts for billing and rev-rec treatment
Manage AR and follow up on aged balances
Payroll, contractors and compensation
Run bi-weekly payroll across our US and international entities plus external contractors, and record the resulting journals
Qualification
You build process where there is none
Required
5–8 years of progressive accounting experience; you've owned a month-end close end to end, ideally at a fast-growing company
Hands-on ASC 606 experience with services or project-based revenue (time & materials, milestones, deferred revenue)
Working knowledge of ASC 842 and stock-based compensation accounting
Experience with multi-country payroll accounting and multi-currency balances
You've run payroll end to end and are comfortable owning equity and benefits administration
Fluency with modern cloud accounting/ERP systems (think NetSuite or Sage Intacct tier) and spend-management tools
CPA or a public accounting foundation is a plus
You use AI tools in your daily work and want to push what a modern finance function looks like — we're an AI company and expect the same fluency internally
You build process where there is none, document as you go, and communicate clearly with non-finance partners
