Overview

The Intern Accountant position will be part of the GL Accounting team which belongs to the Accounting family within the Finance department. The general ledger team within GitLab is responsible for managing and maintaining the company's financial records and accounts that are GAAP compliant. Here are some key aspects of the general ledger team:

1. Recording Transactions: The team is responsible for recording all financial transactions, including sales, purchases, expenses, and revenues, in the general ledger accounts.
2. Maintaining Accuracy: They ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial data by reconciling accounts, verifying entries, and correcting any discrepancies.
3. Preparing Financial Statements: The team prepares financial statements such as the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement based on the data in the general ledger.
4. Compliance: They ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulations, and company policies in recording and reporting financial information.
5. Month-end and Year-end Closing: The team performs month-end and year-end closing procedures, including adjusting entries, accruals, and closing temporary accounts to the retained earnings account.
6. Internal Controls: They establish and maintain internal controls to safeguard assets, prevent fraud, and ensure the integrity of financial reporting.
7. Supporting Audits: The general ledger team provides support during internal and external audits by providing documentation, explanations, and reconciliations of accounts.
8. Analysis and Reporting: They may also be involved in financial analysis, variance analysis, and providing insights into financial performance to support decision-making by management.

In essence, the general ledger team plays a crucial role in maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring compliance, and providing financial information for management decision-making and external reporting purposes. We are looking for candidates available to start June 10, 2024, and offboard August 30, 2024.

This application will close at 5:00 m PT on Thursday, April 25th, 2024.

About The Team

The GL Accountant team is made up of several team members, it is the team that has grown based on the needs of the Company that operates in a hyper growth environment. Our team constantly interacts with other internal and external teams to obtain the necessary support and details for the correct accounting. The team needs to be involved in different areas to be aware of the changes in the company and its correct accounting record, it is the team designed to work in various systems as required, with good communication. Our current challenge is a lack of automation of the processes we perform daily. We constantly strive to automate manual processes, while also iterating our documentation of policies, desktop procedures, etc. 

What You’ll Do

1. With appropriate guidance, prepare financial statement account reconciliations with clear explanations of procedures and results
2. Shadow team members of the Accounting as they perform their daily duties
3. Assist with research, tie-out, data entry, and recording and maintaining accurate and complete financial records
4. Learn how to work as part of the Accounting team to analyze data, support the accuracy and completeness of financial records

What You’ll Bring 

1. Data Entry and Record Keeping:  Assist in entering financial data into accounting systems, maintaining accurate records of transactions, and organizing financial documents.
2. Financial Analysis: Under supervision, interns can conduct basic financial analysis such as calculating ratios, preparing simple financial statements, and assisting with budgeting processes.
3. Research Support:  help in researching accounting standards, regulations, and industry best practices, providing valuable insights to the team.
4. Assistance with Audits: During audit preparations, interns can help gather necessary documents, reconcile accounts, and assist auditors in their tasks.
5. Software Proficiency: If trained on accounting software, interns can help the team navigate and utilize these tools effectively, improving efficiency in financial operations.
6. Documentation and Reporting: Interns can support in preparing financial reports, drafting memos, and documenting accounting procedures and policies.

Overview

The internship aims not only to provide practical experience in billing and accounts receivable operations but also to equip the intern with the knowledge and skills necessary for a successful career in finance and operations within the SaaS industry. By achieving these objectives and goals, the intern will contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of the company's financial operations, while also laying a solid foundation for their professional growth. We are looking for candidates available to start June 10, 2024, and offboard August 30, 2024.

This application will close at 5:00 m PT on Thursday, April 25th, 2024.

What You’ll Do  

As part of our dynamic Billing Operations and Accounts Receivable team, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our customer cash and billing processes. Your contributions will directly impact our financial reporting, customer satisfaction, and overall operational excellence. Here's what you'll be focusing on:

• Collaborate with the Accounts Receivable (AR) and Billing Operations team to review and code cash on account
• Update customer notes and records within our billing system, enhancing our communication and the precision of our record-keeping.
• Work closely with account owners to resolve any discrepancies or issues related to customer accounts, thereby boosting customer satisfaction and financial accuracy.
• Regularly contribute to updating our customer billing portals, ensuring that invoices are processed accurately and reflected promptly.
• Verify and update the status of invoices submitted the previous week, keeping all billing activities current in Tesorio.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to key areas of our financial operations, gaining hands-on experience and developing expertise that will be invaluable to your professional growth. You'll work closely with experienced team members and have the chance to make a meaningful impact on our operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Bring 

• A foundational understanding of financial principles and terms, with an eagerness to apply this knowledge in a practical setting.
• Experience with or a strong willingness to learn financial management software such as Salesforce, Tesorio, or similar platforms.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to review financial data, identify discrepancies, and suggest improvements.
• Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced, remote work environment, quickly adjusting to new tools and processes.
• A collaborative spirit, ready to work as part of a team and positively contribute to team dynamics and culture.
• Proactive in taking initiative, learning new skills, and tackling challenges to support team and organizational objectives.

About the team

Our Billing Operations Team is a global network of professionals based across America, South Africa, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Spain. This diversity enriches our team with a wide range of perspectives and expertise, fostering a culture of high performance and dedication to excellence.

Challenges are opportunities for growth and improvement in our view. We are a team that embraces complexity and turns it into opportunity, ensuring each task, no matter how small, is handled with precision and care.

Joining our team means becoming part of a supportive, high-achieving environment. We value individuals who bring a keen eye for detail, a commitment to excellence, and a desire to contribute to a team that balances professionalism with a positive, engaging work culture. If you're looking to apply your financial skills, make a meaningful impact, and grow with a team that values both results and relationships, we welcome you.

How GitLab will support you

• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and the GitLab codebase. We specialize in systems, whether it be networking, the Linux kernel, or some more specific interest in scaling, algorithms, or distributed systems.

The Observability Team's mission is to Build, Run and Own the entire lifecycle of the suite of services that enable observability of the GitLab SaaS environments. These services allow Infrastructure, Development and Product teams to observe how their code runs on GitLab’s SaaS Platforms and contribute to our overall reliability and scalability goals. This also extends from metrics gathering and telemetry to how that information is used by the Infrastructure and Development teams. 

As an SRE you will:

• Build: Automating as much as possible. Tasks should not be manual. Our Observability stack needs to be extended to support our growth and we need engineers to focus on how to build sustainably. 
• Maintain: Our metrics environment as well as the tools and processes we have developed to provide this information throughout the company.  
• Plan: Develop monitoring and alerting systems that predict capacity needs based on the customer usage patterns. Plan for new service rollouts, expansion of existing services and preparing advice for customers to optimize their resource consumption.  
• Respond: There is a requirement to be part of an on-call rota in this role.
• Partner: Act as Subject Matter Experts for metrics gathering, observability guidelines, and capacity planning. 
• Collaborate: Work with other engineering stakeholders on resolving larger architectural bottlenecks and participate by offering a large scale operational point of view. Work in close collaboration with software development teams.

You may be a fit to this role if you:

• Have experience with Infrastructure as a Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab.
• Have experience with Grafana’s LGTM stack, or Elastic’s stack (ELK)
• Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
• Enjoy working with peers and collaborating across teams to deliver unique solutions to various technical challenges. 
• Are able to leverage GitLab as your day-to-day go-to tool.

 You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Projects you could work on:

• Work on the GitLab core projects such as, GitLab Rails, GitLab Workhorse, Gitaly, etc.
• Coding infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, and comfortable with managed Kubernetes platforms.
• Work on the GitLab observability stack (e.g. ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Interact with various cloud provider systems (e.g. GCP, AWS).
• Error Budgets for Engineering at GitLab.
• Capacity Planning with Tamland.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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