Accountant, Payroll and Stock Admin
Accountant, Payroll and Stock Admin at Conviva — Foster City, CA, US
- Company: Conviva
- Location: Foster City, CA, US
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $130,000–$155,000 a year
- Posted: 2026-09-21
About this role
Conviva is the experience analytics platform for AI agents, apps, and streaming. Conviva pioneered quality of experience measurement for streaming video and has supported live digital experiences across 20 Super Bowls, 10 Olympic Games, and five FIFA World Cup tournaments. With full-census, real-time, stateful analytics, Conviva shows what consumers actually experience, not just whether systems are running, and connects that experience to revenue, retention, and risk.
We're looking for a Payroll and Stock Accountant to join our team. We're a fast-paced startup, so if rolling up your sleeves, multitasking, and staying on top of multiple projects concurrently is what you look forward to in your work, we want to talk to you.
What You Get to Do:
- Prepare and process semi-monthly U.S. payroll through ADP, accurately and on time.
- Own the monthly international payroll cycle for the UK, Spain, India, and China, working with in-country providers.
- Administer employee benefits and 401(k) deductions, contributions, and funding.
- Administer the sales commission compensation plans and process commission payouts.
- Administer the equity program on Carta, including grants, exercises, terminations, and employee profile data.
- Record stock-based compensation expense and maintain the fully diluted share count and cap table reporting.
- Reconcile payroll-related GL accounts and post payroll journal entries in NetSuite at month-end.
- Partner with HR on payroll data, personnel changes, and monthly headcount reporting.
- Own payroll tax compliance, including filings, notices, state registrations, and workers' compensation returns.
- Prepare and file multi-state sales and use tax returns.
- Support external audit requests and ad-hoc projects as needed.
What You Bring to the Role:
- Bachelor's degree, with 5+ years of GL, payroll, and stock accounting experience.
- Strong knowledge of payroll practices and multi-state tax and wage laws; experience with multi-jurisdiction sales and use tax filings is a plus.
- Experience supporting payroll across multiple countries and coordinating with in-country providers is preferred.
- Experience with ADP and NetSuite is required.
- Exposure to equity administration and stock-based compensation accounting, including cap table and fully diluted share reconciliation; experience with Carta is a plus.
- Experience administering sales commission or incentive compensation plans is preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Proven ability to work independently in a fast-paced, start-up environment, prioritize tasks across multiple assignments, and learn quickly.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and a high standard of confidentiality and discretion handling compensation and equity data.
*This role is based in our Foster City, CA office full-time. The expected salary for this full-time position is $130,000 to $155,000. Compensation is determined by various factors such as qualifications, experience, relevant education or training.
Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.ai. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets!
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