What we do:
Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization, and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers.
What you do:
Perform a variety of accounting activities in accordance with accounting principles and standards to control the organization's financial resources and ensure that it complies with all relevant regulations, laws, and reporting requirements.
Main Responsibilities:
- Entering Payables (vendor invoices, credit cards, and expense reports) in accounting system (Intacct)
- Month-end accounting close activities (account reconciliations, accruals, variance analysis)
- Fixed Asset Tracking (maintaining sub-ledger detail) & partnering with IT support to manage the fixed asset purchasing/receiving process
- Updating and maintaining vendor files
- Assisting with travel reimbursement & management of travel vendor relationship
- Assisting with financial and tax audits
- Responding to vendor or internal inquiries
- Informing FP&A function of changes impacting forecast
- Ad hoc reporting including, but not limited to: vendor and corporate credit card spend
- Documentation of Uptake internal controls and policies (e.g., capitalization polices)
- Researching, documenting, and applying accounting guidance
- Supporting other value-add projects for the corporate accounting & finance team
Professional Background/Qualifications:
- BS in Accounting/Finance
- 1-2 years of experience
- Ability to prioritize tasks and handle numerous assignments simultaneously
Preferred but not required:
- Experience researching, documenting, and applying accounting guidance
- Experience using Intacct, Expensify, Concur, Steelbrick, Domo
- Experience with MS Excel (pivot tables, v-lookups)
- Public accounting experience
Why Work Here
- We build and deliver, then explore to build more. Curiosity and flexibility enable everything we do, and we get stronger as we make each new industry smarter. As a team, we bring our diverse backgrounds, beliefs and experiences to solve problems no one has yet to solve, at a speed no one has yet to experience. We support and challenge one another to bring out a new best in each of us, and we might have a little fun along the way.