Mon, Dec 6 2010
Quirky’s FinOps team is hiring like crazy. Check out the open hires:
LEGAL COUNSEL
Do you get excited about new and different products? Ready to lose the suit and tie and come work for a fun, exciting and unique consumer product company?
Your Background (in order of importance):
1.) You have spent considerable time working with patents, trademarks and service marks. The ideal candidate will have a mix of experience at an IP firm and practical experience working for a leading consumer product company.
2.) Bonus points for experience working on royalty agreements, manufacturing/vendor agreements and structuring relationships with retail partners.
3.) Extra bonus points for experience working with credit agreements, employment agreements, leases and other general corporate matters consistent with a fast growing company.
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT / GAAP WIZARD
Ready to dive into an exciting startup and help our Controller build the GAAP reporting systems? Ready to help us improve our tracking systems and learn new software? Ready to handle complex reconciliations and develop systems to improve efficiency? Do you thrive in an exciting and fast-paced environment? Do socially developed consumer products get you excited? Are you ready to launch your accounting career, grow quickly and learn a lot?
Ideal Candidate:
• You know debits and credits like the back of your hand. Complex GAAP determinations? No problem. You know how to look up the rules and apply them.
• Ideally you know debits and credits because you’ve got one to three years of top-notch public accounting experience. But, you’re bored working for a big, rigid corporation. You’re serious about your profession, but you want to lose the suit and tie and exchange some jokes.
• You’re a rock star of a number cruncher. You can’t stand for numbers to be off, and you take personal pride in making sure everything you work is completely accurate.
• You’re not JUST a number cruncher. You’re well rounded and generally brilliant. You know how to analyze business practices, solve complex puzzles and really think creatively.
• Ideally, you’ve got a degree in accounting or finance and two or more years of public accounting experience.
• Your Excel workbooks rock. Pivot tables and V-Lookups roll off the tips of your fingers like you’ve been doing them since kindergarten.
• You’ve handled JEs and managed financial reporting for a similarly complex company, bonus points if that company is in the consumer products space or has inventory complexity.
• QuickBooks experience? Cool. But, not relevant. Experience with NetSuite would be a bonus point for you, but if you have experience with any professional accounting software, that’ll help you here.
• You take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion. And, you notice when something needs doing and jump on it without anyone directing you.
• Ideal candidates also possess and have demonstrated their skills in: Critical thinking / analysis, strong organizational skills, drive for results; self motivated, success driven, ability to work independently, capacity to organize own work, set priorities and meet critical deadlines, ability to juggle multiple tasks of varying priorities and function in a rapidly changing entrepreneurial environment.
OFFICE NINJA aka OFFICE MANAGER
Ready to dive into an exciting startup and help build the office management functions from the ground up? Ready to help us build our accounts payables systems and learn new software? Ready to get our office running smoothly? Do you thrive in an exciting and fast-paced environment?
Ideal Candidate:
• You’re organized. Some people call you a neat freak, and you take that as a compliment.
• You make good decisions and work independently. Get card-key entry system installed? No problem. Hire a moving company and organize the staff on move day? No problem. Pick out desks for new staff? No problem. You’re on it. You’ll figure it out. You’re a confident leader.
• You’re a rock star of a number cruncher. You can’t stand for numbers to be off, and you take personal pride in making sure everything you work is completely accurate.
• Ideally, you’ve got a degree in accounting or business and one year of bookkeeping and office management experience, or at least some substantial internship experience.
• You’ve got experience working with accounting software and Excel experience.
• Debits and Credits. You know the relevant accounting to the accounts payable function. You’ll need to become intimately familiar with our Chart of Accounts and post bills to the correct accounts and accounting periods.
• You take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion. And, you notice when something needs doing and jump on it without anyone directing you.
• Ideal candidates also possess and have demonstrated their skills in: Critical thinking / analysis, strong organizational skills, drive for results; self motivated, success driven, ability to work independently, capacity to organize own work, set priorities and meet critical deadlines, ability to juggle multiple tasks of varying priorities and function in a rapidly changing entrepreneurial environment.
PAID FINANCE INTERN
This is not your typical internship. This is an internship for a rising star, with the drive to pickup new skills and jump right in to self-manage projects that will be great for your resume and for our business.
Ideal Candidate:
• You’re an Excel wizard. You know Excel so well that even a seasoned analyst could learn new tricks from you.
• You’re organized. Some people call you a neat freak, and you take that as a compliment.
• You’re a rock star of a number cruncher. You can’t stand for numbers to be off, and you take personal pride in making sure everything you work is completely accurate.
• Ideally, you’re studying Finance, Accounting, or Business and you’re acing every class. Or, you’re studying something easy, like Mathematics or Physics, maybe Economics.
• You make good decisions and work independently. You take ownership of tasks and see them through to completion.
• Ideal candidates also possess and have demonstrated their skills in: Critical thinking / analysis, strong organizational skills, drive for results; self motivated, success driven, ability to work independently, capacity to organize own work, set priorities and meet critical deadlines in a rapidly changing entrepreneurial environment.
• Bonus points if you can start now and work through December!
