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Our flagship products include BarnTalk alarms and BinTalk feed sensors. We’re creating the nervous system of the farm - where every bin, barn, and gateway talks to each other, the cloud, and to our customers through industry leading web and mobile apps.\nAbout The Role\nWe're looking for our first dedicated Staff Accountant to join our Finance team, reporting to the Finance Manager. This is a brand-new position that blends billing, accounts receivable, and collections with core staff accounting work, including journal entries, reconciliations, month-end close, and costing for our field service and customer success activity. Each month, that means supporting hardware and subscription invoicing, making sure every subscription is set up correctly, following up with customers when payments fall behind, and helping keep our books accurate and timely. You'll work closely with our Customer Success, Field Service, and Sales teams to keep customer accounts accurate, costs well understood, and relationships strong.\nIf you like being the person who knows exactly where things stand, enjoy solving puzzles with data, want to grow your accounting skills, and can pick up the phone to have a friendly, direct conversation about an overdue balance, we'd love to hear from you.\nWhat You'll Do\nBilling and Subscriptions\nPrepare and send accurate hardware and subscription invoices, including mailed invoices, verifying pricing and terms and issuing credit memos as needed.\nSet up and maintain customer subscriptions in Stripe from our HubSpot ticket pipeline, including upgrades, downgrades, renewals, and cancellations.\nUse back-end system data to match subscriptions to hardware devices so every active device is billed correctly.\nPayments and Collections\nRecord and apply ACH, check, card, and wire payments, deposit mailed checks at our Urbandale office, and resolve unapplied cash and short payments.\nFollow up on past-due invoices by phone and email, take customer calls about open balances, and process card payments over the phone. Phone outreach is a core, regular part of this role.\nManage the HubSpot collections pipeline, using your judgment to pause service, issue credits, or set payment timing, and escalate seriously delinquent accounts to the Finance Manager.\nGeneral Accounting and Month-End Close\nPrepare and post journal entries in QuickBooks Online, including accruals, prepaid amortization, deferred revenue, and reclassifications.\nReconcile balance sheet accounts monthly, including bank, Stripe clearing, AR, and deferred revenue, and keep Shopify, Stripe, and QuickBooks Online in sync.\nSupport month-end close and prepare AR, collections, and other financial reports, with clean documentation for audits and tax filings.\nField Service and Customer Success Costing\nTrack and allocate labor, travel, mileage, and parts costs on field service and customer success tickets, recording them to the correct accounts in QuickBooks.\nReport on service costs such as cost per ticket, cost per installation, and warranty trends, partnering with Field Service and Customer Success to keep ticket data complete.\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong attention to detail and a commitment to getting things right.\nConfidence on the phone, including in conversations about overdue balances, and clear, friendly written communication.\nThe ability to stay organized, work independently, and manage recurring deadlines.\nGood judgment about when to work with a customer and when to escalate.\nCuriosity about where costs come from and a desire to grow your accounting skills.\nAvailability to work on-site in Urbandale three days per week (no travel), with flexibility during our busiest windows around month-end.\nExperience and Qualifications\nRequired\n1-2 years of experience in billing, accounts receivable, collections, or general accounting.\nWorking knowledge of accounting fundamentals, including debits and credits, accruals, and account reconciliations.\nComfort working in Excel, including sorting, filtering, formulas, and working with exported data.\nPreferred\nExperience with QuickBooks Online, including posting journal entries.\nCoursework or a degree in accounting or finance.\nExperience with month-end close, job costing, or service costing.\nExperience with Stripe, HubSpot, or other subscription billing or CRM tools.\nCertified Bookkeeper or QuickBooks ProAdvisor certification.\nFamiliarity with agriculture or experience working with ag customers.\nExperience with AI finance tools, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, etc.\nWhat We Offer\nCompany laptop\nCompetitive health plans (medical, dental, & vision insurance)\nHealth Savings Account (HSA)\n401(k)\nCompetitive pay\nUnlimited paid time off\nPaid parental leave\n$500 home office reimbursement\nAn exciting, fast-paced work environment where your ideas can be acted on swiftly. We default to action!\nOpportunity to work at the forefront of ag tech innovation. Be part of a team that is disrupting and transforming the industry every day. 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