Startup Financial Accountant

Job description

Our client is building the future of AI for analysts and scientists, based on a fundamentally new approach to reasoning and knowledge representation. Their team of 40 exceptional researchers and engineers - distributed across 16 countries - are tackling some of the hardest problems in AI. They are building a system that represents domain knowledge as modular probabilistic models — making analysis rigorous and transparent. Users can connect these models flexibly into larger structures. The system enforces consistency across them, and propagates uncertainty through each step. Their first applications are in finance and scientific research, with use cases ranging from equity valuation and distress monitoring, to particle physics. Behind this work is a Finance team that holds the function to the same standard: rigorous, transparent, and built to last. You'll be the operational backbone of that team — owning accounting, compliance, payroll, and corporate governance processes end-to-end. That means full responsibility: not just executing the steps, but making sure every process is as lean and efficient as possible, and that nothing depends on someone else to catch. You'll work closely wi...