Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager
Job Description
About Us:
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health.
Why Join Our Team:
Innovative Mission: We are developing a safe, healthcare-focused large language model (LLM) designed to revolutionize health outcomes on a global scale.
Visionary Leadership: Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from leading institutions, including El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA.
Strategic Investors: We have raised a total of $278 million in funding, backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems.
World-Class Team: Our team is composed of leading experts in healthcare and artificial intelligence, ensuring our technology is safe, effective, and capable of delivering meaningful improvements to healthcare delivery and outcomes.
For more information, visit www.HippocraticAI.com.
We value in-person teamwork and believe the best ideas happen together. Our team is expected to be in the office five days a week in Palo Alto, CA, unless explicitly noted otherwise in the job description
About the role:
As the Accounts Payable and Payroll Manager for the business, you will own, lead, and scale the AP and Payroll processes and systems to support Hippocratic AI’s next growth stage. You will collaborate cross-departmentally to own end-to-end operations to pay vendors and employees accurately and on time, and close month-end books. Specifically, you will work with the corporate teams in the US and India and an outsourced bookkeeper in India (to start with) to ensure seamless operations that drive business success.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage the accounts payable process from invoice receipt to payment disbursement
Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures
Review, code, and process vendor invoices accurately and timely
Work with internal departments to resolve issues with vendors and suppliers
Prepare and analyze reports, such as aging reports and payment forecasts
Ensure compliance with accounting standards and federal, state, and local regulations
Supervise employee expense claims process
Work with the company’s HR team based in the US to process payroll for full-time and hourly US employees, and with the outsourced bookkeeper to run the India payroll
Operate across multiple platforms for credit card payments, invoice processing, travel bookings, and payroll processing
Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the company’s financials
Create and execute SOPs for accounting processes to ensure effective internal controls
Own financial compliance and deliverables for all global entities
Drive continuous improvements and scale financial operations
Qualifications:
5-8 years of experience managing accounts payable and payroll with a high-growth tech startup and/or multi-national corporations
Understanding of US/Indian GAAP
A deep understanding of financial controls, vendor management, and process optimization to drive efficiency and maintain strong relationships with suppliers
Experience in process automation and systems implementation
Knowledge of international payment processes and multi-currency transactions
Experience running payroll for multi-national companies
High proficiency in Excel and experience working with financial software and systems
Strong business acumen and a track record of holding cross-functional teams accountable and creating a culture of adhering to financial controls
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with an ability to work autonomously
Excellent communication skills and attention to detail, with the ability to present complex ideas to stakeholders across teams
Preferred Qualifications:
Qualified CA or CPA
Experience running US payroll and understanding of US payroll regulations
Experience with QuickBooks, Zoho Books/Payroll, Ramp, Rippling, Bill.com, and Navan
Experience working at a US-based B2B Enterprise SAAS company
Company Information
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Type: Hybrid