Trucker Tools

Accounting Manager

About Trucker Tools

The transportation and logistics industry is at a major inflection point; brokers, carriers, and shippers alike are undergoing a massive digital transformation. At Trucker Tools, we are on a mission to empower freight brokers and carriers by enabling them to find, book, and track freight with efficiency and build enduring relationships to grow their businesses.

Our mobile app improves the lives of truck drivers by helping them book loads and find the best fuel prices, parking and routes, all in a single app. We’re the #1 downloaded app in transportation, with 2M+ downloads and 250K+ carriers that use us every week. Our tracking platform helps brokers get accurate real time visibility into their loads with the highest tracking success rates in the industry. Our freight matching platform gives brokers real time access to clean capacity from 250K carriers at their fingertips so they cover more loads with less work.

We’re been recognized across the industry as a leader in innovation in transportation and logistics, by platforms including FreightWaves, FreightTech100, and Gartner. We’re backed by Alpine Software Group (alpinesg.com), a leading software private equity firm that buys and grows world class vertical SaaS businesses. We’re hitting an inflection point in our trajectory and grew triple digits in the last year. Our team includes team members from leaders in tech, finance and logistics, including Uber, J.P. Morgan, DAT, UPS, Nolan Transportation Group, GlobalTranz, Tive, and Axle Payments. We’d love to have you be a part of this exciting journey.

Your Mission

Your mission is to own the foundation for good decision making at Trucker Tools. Making good decisions requires accurate and timely information; you will bring this objective to life by creating a best-in-class financial reporting and data driven decision making environment at Trucker Tools.

You will own the scaling of Trucker Tools’s financial operations and business intelligence infrastructure through technology and a dedicated offshore accounting team. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining accounting principles, financial statements, internal controls, and managing Trucker Tools’s daily operations. You will have exposure to FP&A management and KPI reporting, budgeting and operational planning, forecasting and modeling, financial analysis and decision support.

Your role will be strategic, analytical and data-oriented, and is suited for someone who excels in a fast-paced environment. You'll serve as a trusted financial and operational advisor to the CFO and the CEO. You’ll perform substantial original work, but from the outset will have support and work very closely with our CFO. You will report directly to the CFO of Trucker Tools.

You’re the right fit for this role if you are passionate about financial reporting, data analytics, and managing and optimizing the day to day operations. You’ll succeed in this role if you have a relentless focus on process improvement and challenging the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of accounting and financial operations with a focus on continuous improvement; Including: A/P, payroll, A/R, tax/compliance, cash and working capital management, and the monthly GL close and reporting cycle
• Lead and manage our offshore accounting service providers and AR specialists to power outsourceable tasks, responsibilities, and analyses
• Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger structure while ensuring an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial close
• Prepare financials in accordance with U.S. GAAP; act as primary liaison between finance team and our external auditors
• Support budget and forecasting activities; become the owner of master financial model
• Analyze financial and operational data including performing trend and comparative analyses
• Develop and document internal controls, policies, and procedures; ensure proper documentation and record-keeping compliance
• Assist the CFO in preparation of quarterly board materials
• Respond to inquiries and ad-hoc financial and strategic project requests from the CFO and CEO based on thoughtful, data driven analysis

Experience

• BA/BS in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of relevant GL experience with increasing responsibility, preferably at a rapidly growing SaaS or related subscription-based business model
• Prior Big 4 or Mid-Tier Audit experience preferred but not required
• Strong familiarity with accounting principles, financial statements, and basic valuation techniques
• Desire to enter a situation that requires you to independently build and create best practices that allow the accounting, finance and operations processes to thrive at scale.
• Experience in taking the initiative to identify the need for and then improving / automating processes
• Experience managing staff or offshore resources as supervisor or project manager preferred
• Desire to take complete ownership of the accounting and finance operations of the business and design them for long term success as the company rapidly scales.
• Must have strong Excel skills, including report creation, report formatting, charting, and use of common financial functions (index/match, vlookups, sumifs, pivot tables)
• CPA a plus but not required.
• Experience with Intacct, Expensify, Bill.com, and FloQast is a plus, but not required

Personal Characteristics

• Analytical – finds meaning and action in numbers, and is a data-driven decision-maker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to modify style for the audience (internal vs. external stakeholders)
• Stellar time management and organizational skills
• Resourceful – figures out how to achieve results creatively with finite resources
• Works collaboratively and energetically
• Ability to create and execute on processes for a growing SaaS startup using best practices
• Entrepreneurial
• Passion for technology
• Impeccable integrity and ethical standards
• Thrives in a nimble, lean, unstructured, fast-paced startup environment
• Ability to have and debate an opinion, but with maturity to present a unified front once a decision is made
• An undying commitment to personal growth and development

Other Information

• Location: Remote (preference of Eastern Time Zone)
• Travel expectation: up to 1x per month
• Compensation: Competitive
• Other Benefits: 401k matching, medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage, discretionary PTO
• People First mindset: The guiding principle of our and ASG’s mentality is that the key to success is working with, learning from, and developing exceptional people
• Culture: high-energy, fast-moving, passionate atmosphere in a casual, laidback environment