Staff Accountant

About Mux

Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better.

We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. We want people who care about our mission, are ready to grow, believe in our values (from Be Human to Turn Customers Into Fans), and want to make the people around them better.

You’ll be joining a tight-knit team with experience at places like Google, YouTube, Twitch, Zencoder, Fastly, and more. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology, and authored Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video player on the web. We organize Demuxed, the premiere conference for video engineers in the world.

We’re backed by top investors like Accel and Y Combinator. You’ll get to work with amazing companies: hundreds of startups, plus Reddit, Vimeo, Robinhood, CBSi, Discovery, PBS, and TED. Customers large and small love working with us and love our team.

We’re growing quickly and are building something big together. We’d love to hear from you!

About the Role

Enables sustainable growth at Mux by driving accurate and scalable accounting practices. 

What You’ll Do

• Day to day operations:
  • Manage accounts receivable function by ensuring invoicing, collection and cash application is completed in an accurate and timely manner
  • Oversee new contracts and contract renewals, partnering with the BizOps and Revenue teams to ensure proper revenue recognition is applied in the appropriate periods
  • Assist with deferred revenue schedules and ensure we are compliant under ASC 606
  • Respond to both customer and internal inquiries and representing the Mux finance team in a professional and partner-first manner
  • Reconcile sales tax between our internal reporting and our internal billing system. Provide reports to tax firm to complete the monthly sales tax filings
  • Become a trusted advisor to internal teams by answering accounting and financial questions and researching and interpreting rules, regulations and internal policies
• Month End Close
  • Reconcile various balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis including payments from customers
  • Prepare and review month-end close schedules including bank reconciliations, sales tax, intercompany receivables / payables
  • Prepare and record various journal entries including revenue, accruals, intercompany elimination
• Ad-Hoc Projects
  • Implementation of tools / platforms to scale accounting processes
  • Prepare files for both tax returns and audits
  • Assist with various accounting projects as they come up

Who You Are

• Detail-oriented: Ability and willingness to dig into the details whether the issue is big or small
• Team Player: You want to support the team whether that means helping with an expense report or handling daily payments and collections.
• Strong communication: ability to communicate with customers and/or vendors while preserving Mux values
• Commitment to Mux values: Be Human, Care Obsessively, Turn Customers Into Fans
• Team-first approach: Humility, drive, empathy
• Prior experience:
  • 3 - 5 years experience in general accounting role, 1 - 2 years in public accounting preferred
  • BS/BA Degree in finance or accounting or in relevant fields
  • Familiar with ASC 606 revenue recognition
  • Understanding of GAAP and ability to apply to a SaaS organization
  • Experience communicating with customers and/or vendors
  • Experience with tools in the finance tech stack (Netsuite, Stripe, Navan) or similar tools
  • Experience with external or internally built billing system

In our commitment to provide transparency with candidates, we openly share base pay ranges for all job postings within the United States, regardless of the state. These pay ranges are established using standardized criteria, including job function, level, and location. They're also benchmarked against similar companies in a similar stage of growth. The starting base pay for this position is between $75K-$100K. Actual pay is influenced by various factors such as location, skills, depth of experience, and internal equity.

If you don't have all of these requirements but think your experience could be a great fit, that's okay! Please apply and we can talk about what's most needed in the role.

Benefits