Accounting Lead

At Tribe, we're on a mission to help enterprises realize the value of AI for their business. Every large enterprise wants to use AI to transform how they operate — but many don't have the capabilities to do it. That gap is our opportunity.

We're an AI-native services company that helps enterprises build and deploy best-in-class AI products that deliver real business impact.

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 roll forward 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

Review and pay our monthly external contractor roster, and onboard new contractors — W-9 and W-8

BEN collection, payment setup, and the records that feed year-end filing

Calculate and process quarterly sales commissions with GTM, including plan interpretation, split calls and payment through payroll

Calculate and process quarterly bonuses

Own 401(k) administration — bi-weekly deferral funding, annual compliance testing, and Form 5500 with our plan provider

AP and spend

Run weekly payment runs and keep vendor spend flowing cleanly into the ledger

Administer our corporate card and expense platform — issue cards for new hires and review expense reimbursements against policy

Manage corporate mail and registered-agent correspondence, escalating tax and legal notices

Equity administration

Issue new-hire stock grants and prepare board consents

Process terminations, share repurchases and option exercises

Track 83(b) elections and ISO/NSO status

Run the annual 409A valuation process with our cap-table provider

Reporting, audit, and compliance

Produce month-end financial statements and the monthly reporting package

Manage our annual audit end to end — auditor relationship, PBC schedules, and the first-year opening balance sheet

Issue annual 1099, W-2 and 1042-S forms, including foreign contractor reporting

Own the annual tax return package and manage the relationship with our tax advisor

Own the compliance calendar: quarterly federal and state estimated tax payments, Delaware franchise tax, state registrations and secretary of state filings

Maintain the chart of accounts and run periodic access reviews across our finance systems

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…