Click Forensics is an exciting Austin startup well funded by Austin Ventures, Sierra Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Click Forensics is the industry leader in auditing, scoring and improving traffic quality for the online advertising community. By optimizing every step in the online advertising process, Click Forensics maximizes ROI for advertisers, publishers, and ad networks.

Staff Accountant

Click Forensics, Inc. is the leader in the emerging search engine auditing (SEA) market. Our traffic quality management software-as-a-service solutions assist online advertisers, agencies and publishers monitor pay-per-click campaigns. Led by online marketing and internet security veterans, the company offers the only solution to combine fraud detection with proactive prevention techniques resulting in dramatic improvement in overall campaign performance. Click Forensics is seeking a hardworking Staff Accountant to join the rapidly growing company based in Austin, Texas.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of monthly financial statements (i.e. journal entries, account and bank reconciliations)
• Manage the corporate credit card reconciliation process
• Process Accounts Payable (i.e. enter invoices, print checks)
• Process Accounts Receivablesi
• Revenue tracking (requires strong Excel skills)
• Prepare monthly invoices and receive customer payments
• Recommend process improvements
• Assist with annual external audit
• Work on special projects as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance
• QuickBooks and strong Excel skills required
• 3-5 years related work experience
• Familiarity with month end close process and general accounting guidelines
• Ability to work independently and complete projects within required timeline
• Self motivated and capable of multi-tasking
• Strong work ethic

The position reports directly to the Controller and is a great opportunity for the right candidate looking to gain valuable experience in a technology environment. Click Forensics provides a casual work environment along with excellent benefits (401K with company match, flexible spending accounts, medical, dental).

Senior Scientist

We are looking for a senior scientist who can build predictive models to detect online fraud and measure traffic quality. We are looking for special talent that can help build the core intellectual property of our company. Become a leader in an already strong team of statisticians, data miners, and fraud specialists. Click Forensics is the acknowledged leader in click fraud prevention and traffic quality management solutions for online advertisers, publishers and ad networks. You will be at the center of an exciting new company that is already the leader in the field of measuring online advertising traffic quality.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Build working models that can detect click fraud in online advertising traffic
• Build working models that can predict traffic quality in online advertising traffic
• Analyze data to find patterns of click fraud & traffic quality using third party and custom developed tools
• Perform complex statistical analysis techniques to evaluate effectiveness of models
• Test and report on the efficacy of new rules, classifiers, and new approaches
• Use customer data to identify ways to improve the system
• Propose strategies for which types of analysis and technologies to research and use
• Work in an agile development environment by continuously adding value to products
• Write-up and contribute to patents on new approaches

Experience:

• Ph. D in Machine Learning, Statistical or related fields is desired (Strong MS candidates will be considered as well)
• Experience with heuristic systems, network analysis, neural networks and other systems
• Experience doing hands on implementation and development of machine learning systems.
• Significant industry experience (more than 5 years) in real world applications.
• Prefer to have worked on very large data sets
• Experience with tools such as MatLab and/or other open statistical computation software packages
• Prefer to have exposure to online advertising data
• Strong SQL skills
• Prefer someone who has worked on a successful machine learning project that has had commercial success
• Prefer a familiarity with anomaly detection, network graph analaysis and time series analysis.

Click Forensics is an exciting Austin startup well funded by Austin Ventures & Sierra Ventures. We create solutions used by online advertisers, publishers and ad networks to detect click fraud and measure traffic quality in their online traffic. Austin is a fantastic city with a great culture, amazing cost of living, family friendly atmosphere, wonderful climate and a growing economy. Come join us.