Job description
About PostHog
We equip every developer to build successful products.
We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator’s W20 cohort.
We’ve since shipped more than a dozen products, including a built-in data warehouse, a customer data platform, and Max AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.
Next on the roadmap are messaging, customer analytics, ai task creation and coding based on customer data, logs and support analytics.
Our values are not a poster on the wall full of aspiration. They’ve come from how we really work, day in day out.
We are:
Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
Well-funded. We’ve raised nearly $200m from some of the world’s top investors. We’re set up for a long, ambitious journey.
Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we’re very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
We’re focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.
Things we care about
Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what’s going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can’t do that shipping at a normal pace. We’ve built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We’re a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you’ve ever had.
Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We’re optimistic about what’s possible and our ability to get there.
Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it’s fun.
Job Summary
You’ll be our bean counter Von Neumann-style, our GAAP gremlin, balance beaver, accrual assassin, reconciliation rogue. Finance can be fun. This is our second dedicated hire in the Finance team, you’ll be working along side our Finance Manager & our Ops & Finance Lead. This is not just a day-to-day accounting position: you’ll be GrAAPling with our month-end process whilst also building the whole in-house accounting processes from the ground up. You’ll get to solve interesting technical accounting problems (usage-based revenue across 14 products, and counting, is no joke), run month-end and year-end close, own reporting processes that will scale with us and handle our first financial audit! We are looking for somebody who defaults to doing things and doesn’t want to wait around to get advice from others. This is an Excel-ent opportunity. Ok, you get it, we like puns.
Why PostHog?
You’ll have ownership. We are moving accounting in-house, you’ll be able to have an impact from day 1 - you’re the driver
You’ll have support. You’re joining a small but mighty team and we win and lose as a team.
You’re joining a generation company. We are building to be a generation company so the goal is to be top decile or percentile in everything we do.
What you’ll be doing
Own daily accounting operations - journal entries, bank/stripe reconciliations, expense processing, and other work that makes month-end close possible. You’ll be responsible for ensuring every transaction is recorded correctly and nothing falls through the cracks. Don’t let that daunt you - you’ll have plenty of support from your team!
Handle revenue recognition for usage-based billing - this is the technically interesting part - With multiple products and usage-based pricing, you’ll work through complex revenue recognition scenarios and make sure we’re accounting for everything correctly under GAAP.
Execute month-end close - working collaboratively with the team to hit our closing deadlines every month. You’ll own the checklist, track what’s outstanding, and make sure we can report accurate financials on time!
Manage accounts payable and receivable - processing vendor payments, handling collections, and keeping cash flowing smoothly.
Maintain and improve our chart of accounts - keeping our books organized and consistent as we add new products, and scale the business.
Prepare for our first audit in 2026 - organizing documentation, implementing controls, getting financials ready for the audit!
Automate repetitive manual processes - finding opportunities to make our accounting operations more efficient as we grow.
What you won’t be doing
❌ FP&A
❌ Strategy-only work. All roles at PostHog are hands-on. You’ll set the plan and ship it.
❌ Following a playbook
Requirements
Must have
2+ years of full-cycle accounting experience in a SaaS/tech company
Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and month-end/year-end close process,
Comfortable working independently,
Comfortable building/implementing processes and controls.
Nice to have
Have owned or at least been through a financial audit - our first one is coming up
Have worked with a usage-based billing motion
If you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you - we’re happy to accommodate!
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