Design Manager

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Foreign Accountant to join our finance team. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in international accounting, financial reporting, and cross-border taxation. This role involves managing the company's financial operations related to foreign subsidiaries, compliance with international accounting standards, and ensuring accurate financial reporting in multiple currencies. The Foreign Accountant will work closely with various departments to maintain accurate financial records, provide financial analysis, and support strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Reporting & Analysis:
• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for international entities in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or local GAAP.
• Consolidate financial statements across various regions and subsidiaries, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Perform variance analysis and provide explanations for key financial figures to senior management.

• Foreign Currency Management:
• Oversee the accounting for foreign exchange transactions and manage currency risk.
• Ensure accurate conversion of foreign transactions and balances in line with current exchange rates.
• Analyze and report on currency fluctuations and their impact on financial results.

• Tax Compliance:
• Ensure compliance with local and international tax laws, including VAT, withholding tax, and transfer pricing regulations.
• Prepare and file tax returns for foreign subsidiaries, working closely with tax advisors to optimize tax positions.
• Manage tax audits and ensure timely resolution of any tax-related issues.

• Cross-Border Transactions:
• Manage and reconcile intercompany transactions and balances.
• Prepare documentation for international transactions to comply with transfer pricing and other regulatory requirements.
• Monitor and maintain foreign bank accounts, ensuring accurate and timely payment processing.

• Audit & Internal Controls:
• Coordinate with external auditors during audits for international entities, ensuring timely and accurate submissions of required documents.
• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure adherence to financial policies and procedures.
• Identify and implement process improvements in financial operations and reporting.

• Collaboration & Communication:
• Work closely with local finance teams, management, and other departments to ensure alignment on financial reporting and strategic goals.
• Provide financial advice and guidance to business units regarding international finance and accounting issues.
• Liaise with international stakeholders to resolve accounting issues and provide regular financial updates.

• Regulatory Compliance:
• Stay updated on international accounting and tax regulations, ensuring that the company remains compliant with evolving laws and standards.
• Ensure all financial practices are in line with international financial regulations, including but not limited to Sarbanes-Oxley, IFRS, and local GAAP.

Requirements:

• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. A Master’s degree or professional certifications such as CPA, ACCA, or similar is highly preferred.

• Experience:
• Minimum of 5 years of accounting experience, with at least 2 years focused on international or foreign accounting roles.

• Skills:
• Strong knowledge of accounting software (e.g., SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks) and proficiency in Excel (advanced level).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with international stakeholders.
• Proficiency in multiple languages (optional but desirable depending on the region).

This role provides a great opportunity to work in an international environment with exposure to global financial practices. If you are a highly motivated and experienced accountant with a passion for international finance, we would love to hear from you!

• Programming Language: Python (Strong knowledge)
• Concurrency & Parallelism: Multithreading, Multiprocessing, AsyncIO, ThreadPoolExecutor, Future, concurrent.futures
• Memory Management: Reference Counting, Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
• Distributed Computing: Dask, Apache Spark (Preferred)
• Data Processing: NumPy
• Inter-Service Communication: GRPC, REST API
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Software Development Practices: Code Optimization, Debugging, Performance Tuning
• Communication & Problem-Solving: Technical Documentation, Team Collaboration, Asking for Clarity When Needed

Skills And Expertise

• Python, 
• Multithreading, 
• Multiprocessing, 
• Dask, Apache Spark, 
• NumPy, 
• REST API, 
• Docker, 
• Kubernetes, 
• Code Optimization

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

Business Development is a critical aspect of our platform business.

1. Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking, and social media.

2. Calling 65-70 leads every day

3. Setting up meetings with potential clients (parents)

4. Generating Trial Classes - Pitch Parents to take PlanetSpark Trial Classes

5. Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections

6. Follow and achieve the department’s sales goals on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis (3L revenue per month)

7. “Go the extra mile” to drive sales

Ruby on Rails Developer Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing new web applications.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Creating back-end components.
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.
• Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Ruby on Rails Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Experience with AngularJS or BackboneJS.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

tl;dr

🤓 An early employee of an experienced team. A lot of impact and opportunities to learn or deepen new technologies like GPT3, Amazon Rekognition, FFmpeg and more.

💰 Fixed Salary + Stock-Options

About

Blend is an AI-driven graphic design tool for entrepreneurs that removes decision making to create professional-grade product catalogs. Entrepreneurs can now create product marketing material in a few seconds to stand out and sell better online. Instead of manipulating pixels, users edit objects. Deep learning models ensure the translation of pixels into objects.

What you'll do

Blend app, an AI-driven design tool, will help its users create stunning designs within seconds.

To help us get to our vision faster, we are looking for an Engineer to join us on our app development front. This developer:

• 👩‍💻 Would work on our Flutter codebase writing cross platform code for both Android and iOS.
• 🎨 Work closely with product and design to create amazing user experiences.
• 🐜 Watch out and fix production issues, and target on running a smooth experience.
• 📈 With the help of the rest of the team, you maintain a great app with few bugs and trustable analytics: KPIs, logs, crash logs, boards.

Above all, you would be the owner of the app side of things. Drive it to success. That will be the goal.

We are tech/langugage agnostic when it comes to developers, so the only hard requirement is to be smart and passionate. That being said, having the skills below will be an advantage:

• Experience working with Flutter and/or Dart
• Experience with React/React Native (makes it easier to pick up flutter)
• Experience with Native app development (sooner or later you might get to a point where you need to write native modules as well)

How we work:

• Team: you are humble, open to challenge, and like to help others grow. The most important is the progress of the team and the product.
• Impact: you can prioritize your time to build what will give users superpowers or wow them.
• Learning: learning and sharing knowledge makes you happy. At Blend, this holds true as a team, with machine learning, and with our users.

Hiring process:

3-steps process:

• Screening call
• Technical Interview
• Cultural fit interview with the founders

Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles

● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

● Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript

● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

● Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.

● Experience with user interface design.

● Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs