Junior Associate, Finance + Accounting
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
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Job Description
Role Description
Calling all 2026 graduates! Are you interested in learning about the startup field and developing consulting skills? Curious to know what it takes to be a Startup'er? Our boutique consulting firm, Sandbox, is currently recruiting for our Junior Associate role. We are seeking college grads to join our team to establish and quickly grow in their careers.
As a Junior Associate, you will play the following roles for our Finance and Accounting teams:
- Problem-Solving Gopher: You will be the point of contact for addressing client requests, managing data and research analysis, and assisting with other ad-hoc finance and accounting projects.
- Communicator: As a communications champion, you will assist in drafting financial reports, investor updates, and client communications, ensuring complex financial and accounting information is clear and accurate.
- Organizer: You may be asked to develop and maintain simple, effective templates and retention systems to keep our clients organized, efficient, and connected, including managing client documents and owning investor documentation.
- Team-Player: You may be pulled into client meetings to provide ad-hoc supplemental support on projects, assist with financial models, scrub presentations, help with data-entry projects, or set up new software accounts.
- Learner: You will be asked to flex your intellectual curiosity muscles to learn new skills, even if it means messing up, learning from it, and moving on!
Qualifications
- Expected May 2026 graduation date with a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or a similar Business-related field.
- Firm grasp of basic and intermediate accounting principles and familiarity with financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
- Analytical mindset with a high aptitude for math and ability to tell the story behind the numbers.
- Ability to understand and analyze complex business data and build financial models to support organizational decision-making.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfortability with software and tools like GSuite, Slack, QuickBooks, etc.
- Demonstrated willingness to learn new skills on the fly and apply these unmastered skills for company executives, management, and other leaders.
- Bonus points: Strong desire to earn your CPA and/or passion and interest in the venture capital and startup finance space!
Requirements
- Curiosity: Be insatiably Curious.
- Scrappy & Nimble: Understand and speak Founder.
- Growth: Fail forward through experimentation, innovation, and calculated risk-taking.
- Welcoming & Authentic: Celebrate and value authentic selves to build strong foundations of trust.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits with employer contribution.
- Family-friendly, flexible work schedule with generous PTO and mental wellness days.
- Employer-matched 401K with no time delays & no vesting schedules.
- Ongoing professional development and networking opportunities.
- Monthly team events.
- Bragging rights that you are part of something BIG!
Job Requirements
- Expected May 2026 graduation date with a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or a similar Business-related field.
- Firm grasp of basic and intermediate accounting principles and familiarity with financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
- Analytical mindset with a high aptitude for math and ability to tell the story behind the numbers.
- Ability to understand and analyze complex business data and build financial models to support organizational decision-making.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfortability with software and tools like GSuite, Slack, QuickBooks, etc.
- Demonstrated willingness to learn new skills on the fly and apply these unmastered skills for company executives, management, and other leaders.
- Bonus points: Strong desire to earn your CPA and/or passion and interest in the venture capital and startup finance space!
- Curiosity: Be insatiably Curious.
- Scrappy & Nimble: Understand and speak Founder.
- Growth: Fail forward through experimentation, innovation, and calculated risk-taking.
- Welcoming & Authentic: Celebrate and value authentic selves to build strong foundations of trust.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits with employer contribution.
- Family-friendly, flexible work schedule with generous PTO and mental wellness days.
- Employer-matched 401K with no time delays & no vesting schedules.
- Ongoing professional development and networking opportunities.
- Monthly team events.
- Bragging rights that you are part of something BIG!
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