Accounting Trainee
Job Summary
Job Description
Sword Health is a high-tech startup on a mission to free people from pain using AI Care. They have achieved significant success with a high percentage of members experiencing pain-free lives and a reduction in surgery intent. The company is recognized as a Forbes Best Startup Employer and has a valuation of $4 billion, indicating rapid growth and expansion. As a Junior Accountant, your primary responsibility will be to support mid-level accounting management by ensuring daily tasks are up-to-date, updating general ledgers, maintaining documentation, and assisting with reconciliations. You will integrate AP invoices, support bank postings and reconciliations, revenue accounting, and balance sheet reconciliations. Additionally, you will be responsible for document keeping, process documentation, identifying and resolving discrepancies with the AP team, and supporting ad-hoc reporting.
Must have:
- University degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting
- Knowledge of SNC
- Fluent in English (written & spoken)
- Fluent in Portuguese (written & spoken)
Good to have:
- Proficiency in MS Excel for data analysis
- Analytical Skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Problem-solving mindset and resilience
Perks:
- Stimulating, fast-paced environment with room for creativity
- Bright future at a promising high-tech startup
- Career development and growth
- Competitive salary
- Work with a talented team
- Add real value to an innovative solution
- Flexible environment with control over hours
- Unlimited vacation
- Access to health and well-being program
- Remote or Hybrid work policy
4 skills required
Job Details
Sword Health is on a mission to free two billion people from pain.
With 67% of members achieving a pain-free life and a 70% reduction in surgery intent, at Sword, we are using AI Care to change lives, and save millions for our 25,000+ enterprise clients across three continents. Today, we hold the majority of industry patents, win 70% of competitive evaluations, and have raised more than $300 million from top venture firms like Founders Fund, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures.
Recognized as a Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2025, this award highlights our focus on being a destination for the best and brightest talent. Not only have we experienced unprecedented growth since our market debut in 2020, but we’ve also created a remarkable mission and value-driven environment that is loved by our growing team. With a recent valuation of $4 billion, we are in a phase of hyper growth and expansion, and we’re looking for individuals with passion, commitment, and energy to help us scale our global impact.
Joining Sword means committing to a set of core values, chief amongst them to “do it for the patients” every day, and to always “deliver more than expected” on behalf of our members and clients.
This is an opportunity for you to make a significant difference on a massive scale as you work alongside 1000+ (and growing!) talented colleagues, spanning three continents. Your charge? To help us build a pain-free world, powered by AI, enhanced by people — accessible to all.
As a Junior Accountant your primary responsibility will be to support the mid-level accounting management to ensure that the daily tasks are up-to-date, updating general ledgers, documentation keeping, supporting reconciliations (including banks, accounts payable and accounts receivable).
What you'll be doing:
- Integrate AP Invoices, confirming that are accordingly with the budget expectations and accounting policies;
- Support Bank Posting and Reconciliation;
- Support Revenue Accounting;
- Support Balance Sheet Reconciliations;
- Review if all AP documents booked in Portugal are saved in physical folders;
- Responsible for keeping all the statutory documentation is saved physically and virtually;
- Documentation Keeping;
- Document the accounting team processes;
- Identify discrepancies and work with AP to solve them;
- Aging analysis;
- Support reconciliation of open items with the operations team;
- Supports getting information to build ad-hoc reports.
What you need to have:
- University degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or any related field;
- Knowledge of SNC (Sistema de Normalização Contabilística);
- Fluent in English (written & spoken);
- Fluent in Portuguese (written & spoken).
What we would love to see:
- Proficiency in MS Excel for data analysis;
- Analytical Skills;
- Excellent attention to detail;
- Problem-solving mindset and resilience to investigate and resolve discrepancies.
To ensure you feel good solving a big Human problem, we offer:
- A stimulating, fast-paced environment with lots of room for creativity;
- A bright future at a promising high-tech startup company;
- Career development and growth, with a competitive salary;
- The opportunity to work with a talented team and to add real value to an innovative solution with the potential to change the future of healthcare;
- A stimulating environment with room for creativity;
- A flexible environment where you can control your hours (remotely) with unlimited vacation;
- Access to our health and well-being program (digital therapist sessions);
- Remote or Hybrid work policy.
*Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.
SWORD Health, which includes SWORD Health, Inc. and Sword Health Professionals (consisting of Sword Health Care Providers, P.A., SWORD Health Care Providers of NJ, P.C., SWORD Health Care Physical Therapy Providers of CA, P.C.*) complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.
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