Senior Accountant, Cohere

Salary not provided
NetSuite
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto
Cohere

Natural language processing AI platform

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Cohere

Natural language processing AI platform

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
NetSuite
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Toronto

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To build machines that understand the world, and to make them safely accessible to all.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or equivalent certification required
  • Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience in accounting
  • Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high level of attention to detail
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Desirable

  • Experience working at a startup in the SaaS and technology industry
  • Big 4 audit experience
  • Familiarity with NetSuite ERP

What the job involves

  • This role will be responsible for assisting in maintaining the general ledger, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and company policies
  • This role will involve supporting month-end and year-end close processes, preparing journal entries, reconciling accounts, and assisting with financial reporting
  • Manage the procure-to-pay and payroll processes, making sure all financial transactions are recorded accurately and in accordance with US GAAP standards
  • Process and manage expense reports, including review, coding, and reimbursement, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures
  • Prepare payments on a weekly basis, ensuring all bills are paid in a timely manner
  • Perform payroll on a bi-weekly basis, ensuring accurate and timely payment of wages, salaries, and benefits in collaboration with team members
  • Reconcile payroll accounts, calculate and process payroll adjustments, and ensure proper taxation and deduction of benefits
  • Maintain accurate payroll records, including attendance, overtime, and paid time off, and provide support during audits or inquiries
  • Assist with month-end and year-end close processes, with an emphasis on purchases and payables, payroll and cash
  • Prepare and post journal entries, maintaining accurate documentation for various expense accounts, assets, accruals and inter-company transactions
  • Assist in maintaining the general ledger and ensuring accuracy and compliance with US GAAP accounting standards
  • Perform financial statement account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
  • Support the preparation of financial statements and other financial reports
  • Assist and project manage external audits and financial data requests by providing necessary documentation and explanations

Our take

The AI industry biggest stakeholders insist that the next step in enhancing web experiences will be through natural language interactions. While this may be true, only companies with considerable resources can reasonably address the gap needed to bring NLP to the forefront of web integration. Cohere was founded to address this shortfall between NLP development, widespread usage, and the resources required.

Cohere works on building top-of-the-class NLP processing models and software which it makes available to customers through APIs and custom solutions. In a strategic move, the company has partnered with Google Cloud, giving them access to resources that will undoubtedly push the field of NLP forward. This allows Cohere to serve as middlemen by offering a wide range of customers a product built on unmatched technology.

AI is currently a worldwide talking point and so it is no surprise that Cohere has seen rapid development, and raised $270M in a 2023 funding round. The company plans to introduce a dialogue model that would resemble ChatGPT, however, in this case, its technology would be mainly accessible to developers and businesses.

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Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

192% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jul 2024

$500m

SERIES D

Mar 2023

$270m

SERIES C

Total funding: $940m

Company benefits

  • We cover 100% of premiums across health, dental, vision & travel
  • We offer RRSP, 401K, and Pension Scheme contributions
  • We offer lunch and fitness studio credits and a quality time fund which can be spent on things like dog walking and laundry services
  • We want everyone who contributes to our success to get a ‘piece of the pie’
  • Work Remote & PTO
  • We know that some people work better at home, so we are remote-first, and sure that all meetings, events, and opportunities are set up for our distributed team
  • Every employee at Cohere gets 6 weeks of paid time off & US and Canadian federal holidays, and we provide unlimited sick days
  • All new parents (including those who adopt or go through a surrogate journey) are eligible to receive 100% salary for 6 months in Canada, the US, and the UK
  • The decision and journey to having kids is different for each person and family. Part of our commitment to diversity is being able to support the widest variety of these scenarios as we can so we offer financial support for egg freezing and IVF for those in the US, Canada and the UK
  • Every employee at Cohere receives an annual $2,000 education fund to use as they please

Company values

  • We build for a positive future
  • We build for the many
  • We always stay curious
  • Now never stops, and that's pretty fun

Company HQ

Grange Park, Toronto, ON

Leadership

Has a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University. Previously worked as a Researcher at Google (Brain) and FOR.ai

Previous experience working in research and engineering at For.ai, Cortex labs, Pressly and Ranomics.

Previously worked as a Research Engineer at Google (Brain).

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