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Chief Accounting Officer

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $86 billion last year to $161 billion in 2025.

As the first publicly-traded (NYSE: SKLZ) mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, and distributes millions in prizes each month.

Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross , Susan G. Komen , American Cancer Society , and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of San Francisco Business Times’ Best Places to Work , Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies , Parity.org’s Best Companies for Women to Advance , a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 , one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups , and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

What We’re Looking For:

The Chief Accounting Officer will build and lead a team to support the accounting businesses. As a member of the senior leadership team, the CAO will work closely and productively with executive management to influence, refine and implement strategy. The ideal candidate will have worked in a successful high growth company and can bring those experiences to our company as we continue to define the future of esports and mobile gaming. The role reports to the CFO of Skillz.

What You Will Do :

• Serve as a strategic financial business partner to the CEO, CFO and Executive Management team
• Manage monthly / quarterly / annual financial close; including leading all project based accounting and ad hoc accounting duties that arise.
• Assist with company finances including tax, revenue, cash flow, expenses, reports and ongoing financial reporting.
• Oversee SEC reporting
• Participate in monthly financial reviews with the executive team
• Develop and maintain financial models, reporting systems, and databases to facilitate the ability to evaluate and understand all aspects of the company financials
• Develop and maintain all internal controls and financial policies and procedures
• Coordinate and perform financial updates with the preparation of monthly financial statements and other reports used to summarize and interpret the current financial position of the company
• Work to research and implement new accounting systems and processes as needed

Your Skillz:

• 15+ years experience, including 5+ years of public company experience in the technology (or interactive media) industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA a must, MBA a plus)
• Ability to create and manage complex accounting and reporting systems/processes
• Successful management experience in accounting and audit procedures/operations
• Prior experience working in a fast paced startup environment
• Strong attention to detail, systems development and organizational management
• Due diligence, merger/acquisition and business integration experience a plus
• Demonstrated educational success at a reputable university
• Committed to continuous learning and improvement (self and team)
• Prior Big 4, 8+ years public accounting / audit experience

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .