Sr. Accounting Manager

The impact you will have:

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close across key global accounting areas, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong control execution.
• Lead and develop a small team; set clear expectations, coach through the work, and raise the bar on ownership and review quality.
• Lead the adoption of AI and automation across your core close areas leveraging tools like Databricks to automate manual calculations, improve accrual accuracy, accelerate balance sheet reconciliations, and reduce close cycle times
• Apply strong U.S. GAAP judgment to complex close areas, especially cloud infrastructure spend, vendor spend, usage-based accruals, capitalization considerations, fixed assets, leases, cash, and other accounting areas
• Own balance sheet integrity for your areas, including reconciliations, flux analysis, variance explanations, and support for period-over-period movements.
• Standardize and govern global accounting processes across your areas, ensuring consistency across entities and regions.
• Partner with our Finance Transformation team to redesign processes, reduce manual work, improve data quality, and accelerate the close.
• Strengthen SOX compliance, documentation, reconciliations, journal entries, and accrual support.
• Support external audit requests for your areas with timely, well-supported documentation.
• Play a key Accounting role in the SAP implementation, partnering on process design, testing, data readiness, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization for your areas.
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Procurement, AP, and broader Finance teams to resolve issues at the source.

What we look for:

About Databricks

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