Junior Associate - Finance and Accounting

Calling all 2024 graduates! Are you interested in learning about the startup field and developing consulting skills? Curious to know what it takes to be a Startup’er? Our boutique consulting firm, Sandbox, is currently recruiting for our Junior Associate role. We are seeking college grads to join our team to establish and quickly grow in their careers.

Our employees --affectionately referred to as Sandboxers-- are a collection of repeat entrepreneurs, corporate refugees, reformed management consultants, and rogue college grads who believe in a creative approach to traditional consulting. We all share a love for getting our hands dirty and doing what it takes to help our clients achieve their business goals.

A little bit about the job!

You will work on a variety of projects that will develop your skills and excel your career as a future leader. Our focus on entry-level hiring means we want to invest in your growth and provide expertise and mentorship through our "associate-led, partner-backed” model. Before long, you will become a key decision maker, own client and community relationships, and have a front row seat to see your impact on disruptive startups across various industries.

As a Junior Associate, you will play the following roles for our Finance and Accounting teams:

• Problem-Solving Gopher- You will serve as an escalation point for fielding client requests, managing research projects and questions.
• Communicator- As a communications champion, you will be on deck for ghostwriting external communications on behalf of our clients.
• Organizer- On any given day you may be asked to develop and maintain simple, effective systems, templates and retention systems to keep our clients organized, efficient, and connected. This will include, among other things, managing and maintaining client documents and owning investor documentation.
• Team-Player- In some instances, you may be pulled into a client meeting to provide ad-hoc supplemental support on projects; this might include assisting with a financial model, scrubbing a powerpoint presentation, helping with a data-entry project, or setting up a new software account. On other days, you may be asked to contribute to the Sandbox Fun Committee (yes, it’s a thing!) or work with our strategic partners and affiliate networks to ensure we remain engaged in the local and start-up communities.
• Learner- Arguably the most important role you will play-- inevitably we will ask you to flex your intellectual curiosity muscles to learn new skills that you can build upon in this role—even if it means messing up, learning from it, and moving on!

We are excited about you because…

• You have an expected May 2024 graduation date with a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or similar Business related field.
• You have a firm grasp of basic and intermediate accounting principles and know your way around financial statements, to include balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
• You possess an analytical mindset with a high aptitude for math and can tell the story behind the numbers.
• You are able to understand and analyze complex business data and build financial models to support organizational decision making.
• You have advanced Excel skills and comfortability with software and tools like GSuite, Slack, QuickBooks, etc.
• You have a demonstrated willingness to learn new skills on the fly and apply these unmastered/unrefined/not perfect skills for company executives, management, and other leaders.
• Bonus points: You have a strong desire to earn your CPA and/or have a passion and interest in the venture capital and startup finance space!

You will love playing in the Sandbox if our core values resonate with you:

• Curiosity | Be insatiably Curious. | Sandboxers demonstrate a relentless appetite for the pursuit of understanding - we never settle for surface level knowledge, but strive to dive deeper, uncover insights, and explore new possibilities.
• Scrappy & Nimble | Startuper’s understand and speak Founder. | Sandboxers are resourceful, creative, and resilient professionals who possess an entrepreneurial spirit, understand how to do more with less, and have a bias for action when it comes to solving startups' greatest challenges.
• Growth | Growth is universal. | Sandboxers fail forward through experimentation, innovation, and calculated risk-taking to challenge ourselves, push the boundaries, and constantly evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of our team, our clients, and our communities.
• Welcoming & Authentic | Come as you are, we choose you! | Sandboxers celebrate and value our employee and clients’ authentic selves to build strong foundations of trust, foster diversity, and create vibrant and inclusive relationships.

Reasons it pays to work at Sandbox (in addition to the pay itself):

• Buzzing, start-up work environment. We sit in the middle of the Richmond start-up community (literally, on Floor 3!)
• Comprehensive health benefits with employer contribution. It pays to keep your employees healthy.
• Family friendly, flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO and mental wellness days. Work life integration is a thing and we are here to support.
• Employer-matched 401K. No time delays & no vesting schedules. Enroll and keep all money on day one.
• Ongoing professional development and networking opportunities.
• Monthly team events - We sure know how to host a happy hour and we are never too busy to break for a volunteer opportunity.
• Bragging rights that you are part of something BIG!
• Most importantly, you get to go to sleep each night knowing you are helping savvy, driven entrepreneurs achieve their goals - how awesome is that??

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every. single. qualification. At Sandbox, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and just workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with 100% of the qualifications listed, we encourage you to still apply. Our hiring philosophy looks to weed people INTO our process, not weed them out! Who knows, you may be just the right candidate for a future role inside or outside of the Sandbox. Just go for it... submit your resume!