About the position
An early-stage startup is seeking an experienced Small Business Accounting & AWS Billing Consultant to modernize their accounting processes, streamline billing operations, and advise on best-in-class automation practices. The ideal consultant will have hands-on experience guiding startups through accounting system transitions, implementing billing tools, and integrating financial processes with AWS usage and cost-tracking.
Responsibilities
• Assess current accounting workflows (QuickBooks, Excel, third-party firm) and identify gaps impacting cash flow, billing timeliness, and financial accuracy.
• Design and implement improved systems to provide better cash-flow visibility, billing predictability, and automation.
• Develop and build a scalable billing operations function, including processes for invoicing, collections, and revenue tracking.
• Recommend and implement billing and payment tools (e.g., Bill.com, Stripe, Square, or others appropriate for e-commerce/SaaS startup environments).
• Evaluate and integrate financial tools with AWS services, including advising on AWS usage and cost-tracking solutions, AWS-compatible billing automation tools, and software stack options to support financial operations on AWS.
• Provide insight into how and when the business will be paid, improving customer billing cycles and payment transparency.
• Create reporting mechanisms, dashboards, and documentation for ongoing financial operations.
• Partner with leadership to ensure the systems built will support long-term scale and operational maturity.
Requirements
• Demonstrated consulting experience with a project list; agency or consulting firm background required.
• Prior work advising startups, especially those leveraging AWS for infrastructure or billing.
• Hands-on experience building or improving billing teams, e-commerce billing systems, and automated invoicing, payment processing, and collections workflows.
• Strong knowledge of AWS billing, AWS cost-management tools, and integration options.
• Expertise with common accounting and billing platforms, such as QuickBooks, Bill.com, Stripe, Square, and other SaaS/e-commerce financial tools.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with existing manual processes before redesign.
• Ability to diagnose financial bottlenecks, especially those related to cash-flow constraints.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort advising founders/leadership teams.
Benefits
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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