Job Description

Founded in 2014, Kindred is a robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) company that develops robots to solve real-world problems. Its mission is to enhance the lives of human workers with the power of AI robotics. Kindred\'s cutting-edge technology is the foundation of a number of proprietary platforms, including CORE with AutoGrasp\xe2\x84\xa2, developed to operate robots autonomously in dynamic environments. Its team of scientists, engineers and business operators have set a new standard for reinforcement learning for robots. The company is co-located in San Francisco and Toronto and is part of the UK-based Ocado Group plc.

Summary of role and responsibilities:

Reporting to the Director of Accounting Operations North America, the Financial Accountant is a key Accounting team member (part of Ocado\'s North America Accounting Team)

The Financial Accountant is responsible for timely and accurate customer invoicing, A/R collections, commission calculation, expense verification and assisting in the vendor payment process. The Financial Accountant will also assist in other day-to-day business accounting and finance activities.

In this role, I am accountable for:

• Evaluate contracts, review new sales orders and maintain the billing process for proper revenue treatments.
• Review new contract terms and validate contracts set up in Sage for accuracy of terms, including but not limited to invoice amount, frequency renewal and terminations.
• Maintain the billing file daily.
• Review the customer invoices raised out of Sage per the billing file.
• Analyze the Deferred Revenue waterfall/roll-off schedule supporting the total recorded deferred revenue balance.
• Analyze anticipated vs complete invoice status to identify exceptions.
• Key balance sheet reconciliations (AR / Def Rev / Commission accrual)
• Stay on top of customer collections. By working with the sales team and constantly communicate with the customer\'s AP department to ensure timely payment of invoices.
• Assist in processing and posting A/P invoices and obtaining approvals.
• Review and process employee reimbursements.
• Assist in year-end audit, tax preparation, and other statutory filings
• Assist with additional projects as requested
• Building excellent relationships across Finance and Business, working to resolve issues in a timely manner
• Assisting in continuous improvement projects (including relevant systems) and testing (where required)
• Providing oversight, understanding variances, and proactively identifying problems and opportunities to standardize, streamline and improve processes and accuracy
• Driving the professionalization of Ocado reporting and raising the bar on quality
• Supporting internal control and audit processes and the safeguarding of Ocado assets
• Embedding a culture of controls within the team, responsible for operating effectiveness of all key controls within the department\'s processes and remediation of any control weaknesses
• Championing Ocado\'s values
• Other duties as assigned

What key business competencies will enable me to succeed in this role:

• Good experience in a global financial operations environment with a track record of delivering effectiveness, efficiency and compliance targets / SLAs
• Bachelor\'s degree in Accounting and Finance. Pursuing a CPA designation. Strong knowledge of IFRS
• 3+ years of accounting experience
• In-depth understanding of core financial processes and relevant systems preferred (Sage, Oracle Fusion, FCCS, EPBCS)
• Good knowledge of accounting, tax and reporting standards & principles,
• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth, global organization
• Experience in delivering outstanding customer/user experience
• Experience in process improvement and automation
• Excellent excel skills
• Hands-on experience in a similar size company; \xe2\x80\x9ccan-do\xe2\x80\x9d the mechanics of the function
• Strong analytic and organizational skills, attention to detail
• Outcome-focused: ability to prioritize critical activities to achieve outcomes
• Have a continuous improvement mindset to continually drive efficiency and performance
• Ability to collaborate with peers, members of management and cross-functional team
• Ability to build trusted relationships with their stakeholders. Become a trusted partner to stakeholders
• Experience with supply chain, fulfillment, or manufacturing preferred

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