Billing Specialist ($48,000 per year + 0.0125% equity)

Pilot (YC W17) is looking for our first Billing Specialist to join our remote team on a mission to create a more open worldwide job market. For this role, we are looking for someone available to help us support daily and month-end activities in Finance.
A bit about who we are
Pilot helps companies to handle payroll, benefits, and compliance for their remote teams. We believe that your opportunities in life shouldn’t be dictated by where you’re from or where you happen to live, and we’re helping our customers live by that too. We’re backed by Sam Altman, Y Combinator, Credo Ventures, Automattic, Kyle Vogt, and many other amazing investors.
What you will be working on
You will be supporting day-to-day and month-end activities for AP and AR areas.
Assume the responsibility of managing subscriptions for our customers (prorations, customers changing plans, upgrades, downgrades, discounts, credit notes)
Manage one-off invoices for customers, deposits
Take care of collections, including chasing failed payments, retries (dunning), and communication with customers
Manage platform for subscription payments, including tracking failures, reaching out to budget owners to confirm limits
Review invoices from vendors and schedule payments, review invoices for employees’ expenses, stipends
Handle expense cards for employees, adjust limits when they travel
Assist in creating policies
Meet processing and reporting deadlines
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Proven accounts receivable, payable, and/or billing experience
Comfortable dealing with numbers and invoices
Good knowledge of Excel
Good written and verbal communication skills
Proactive and self-learner
Organized and detail-oriented
Problem-solving skills
Work hours (available for 3 hours overlap with CET time zone). (However, we may require longer overlap during the first 3 months)
We’d especially like to work with you if
You have experience with Stripe
Experience with automation/interest to learn
You have experience working remotely and in a fast-growing environment
You’ve had a chance to work in a distributed team with people from around the globe
You have worked at a rapidly growing company/especially a tech startup
Most important tasks in the next 12–18 months
Handle independently on all tasks assigned
There are no delayed payments and minimum mistakes in billing
Start identifying opportunities to centralize, eliminate, or automate activities
Know the company, and products, know how our app works
Benefits
Annual salary from $34,000 to $48,000 and up to0.0125% of equity
Flexible working hours
Unlimited vacation policy
Health insurance coverage
Parental leave
Company hardware (Computer + other equipment)
Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the world
Opportunity to join an early-stage startup with high growth potential
We try to hold most of our team meetings between 7 am–9 am PST / 4 pm–6 pm CET / 11 pm–1 am JST to accommodate as many time zones as possible.