Accounting Manager
Color
Accounting & Finance, Sales & Business Development
Burlingame, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 28, 2025
Color Health is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based approach spans cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. In addition to personalized direct medical care, our services include cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support, and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color’s goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys. Color has raised over $330M in funding from leading investors like General Catalyst, Kindred Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Viking Global.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Accounting Manager to join our dynamic Finance team at Color Health. This role will focus on designing, executing, and scaling best-in-class revenue accounting operations within a high-growth health tech startup environment. The ideal candidate will be instrumental in building agile infrastructure, ensuring accuracy and compliance in all revenue recognition activities, and contributing to the overall financial health and strategic growth of the company. Responsibilities include developing and implementing efficient workflows, leveraging technology to automate processes, and providing insightful analysis to support business decisions.
How You'll Contribute
- Revenue Accounting: Lead the monthly revenue close process, ensuring timely and accurate revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606 and other relevant guidance. Manage general ledger activities, reconciliations, and month-end close to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.
- Billing & Accounts Receivable: Own invoicing, collections, and AR management. Focus on improving working capital and customer experience.
- Banking & Treasury: Oversee cash management, wires, and treasury operations.
- Audit & Compliance: Serve as the primary contact for revenue- and AR-related matters during audits, ensuring high-quality documentation and controls.
- Policy & Process Development: Design and implement scalable accounting policies, procedures, and frameworks to support Color’s evolving business model and growth trajectory.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Sales and Legal partners to develop revenue policies and operations.
- Systems & Automation: Identify and execute opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce close timelines, and improve data accuracy. Strategic Initiatives: Provide subject matter expertise for special projects, go-to-market initiatives, and business development activity.
- Analytics & Insights: Build and maintain high-integrity reporting and analytics to drive visibility into revenue performance, A/R health, and forecasting.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- 5+ years of total accounting experience, with at least 2 years in corporate accounting.
- Strong revenue accounting experience, with practical knowledge of ASC 606.
- Familiarity with Accounts Receivable, billing, and collections operations.
- Cash management, banking, and treasury experience are a plus.
- CPA preferred.
- Experience in startups strongly preferred; healthcare industry experience is a plus.
- Proficiency with NetSuite ERP.
- Experience with grant accounting and compliance is a plus.
- Skilled at building processes from scratch, designing scalable systems, and improving efficiency.
- Strong communicator who can explain complex accounting topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented, process-driven, and relentless in the pursuit of operational excellence.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup environment with evolving priorities.
What we Offer
- 💰 Competitive salary
- ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 📈 401k match
- 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
- 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents
Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.