Director, Corporate Accounting

May 1, 2026

$200K - $220K

We are looking for a Director, Corporate Accounting to own and scale critical accounting operations as Lightning grows. You will be responsible for supporting accurate financial reporting, improving close processes, strengthening internal controls, and building scalable accounting workflows across the business. This role will partner closely with Finance, FP&A, People Operations, Sales Operations, Legal, and external advisors to ensure accounting operations are accurate, compliant, and built for scale.

This is a high-impact role for someone who combines strong technical accounting knowledge with an operational mindset. You will help manage core accounting activities, payroll accounting, commissions accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, close-related processes, and cross-functional accounting operations. The accounting scope is broad, leadership visibility is high, and the work directly supports financial accuracy, operating discipline, audit readiness, and long-term business scalability.

This is a hybrid role based in either New York City or San Francisco with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $200,000–$220,000
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• Hire, develop, and lead a team of 6+ across work streams including revenue accounting (ASC 606), period-end general ledger close, fixed assets, and AP and AR operations
• Establish team operating cadences — close calendars, review meetings, escalation paths, and performance management
• Develop and mentor the team, building the bench needed as the business scales

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close across all entities, delivering stand-alone trial balances and a clean consolidation
• Build the close playbook, calendar, and review controls, currently undocumented
• Stand up the intercompany framework, elimination process, and consolidation cadence across the group

• Serve as primary internal owner of the first-year audit, partnering with a Big 4 accounting firm
• Reconstruct subsidiaries' financial reporting pre- and post-merger, in partnership with external advisory teams
• Manage data requests, audit deliverables, and audit liaison support across accounting work streams
• Partner with Tax, Treasury, and Strategic Finance on cross-functional audit areas

• Lead the structured transition of close work from consultants to a permanent in-house team
• Document every process before release, and define the scope of managed services while internal hires onboard
• Ramp consultant load down to under 10% of finance capacity before year-end as full-time hires become productive

• Lead accounting memos under ASC 805 (purchase accounting), ASC 606 (revenue recognition for AI compute and infrastructure arrangements), ASC 842 (data center and equipment leases), ASC 360 (impairment), and ASC 350 (goodwill)
• Stay current on accounting developments relevant to AI infrastructure, including evolving guidance on cloud arrangements, data center leases, and capacity contracts

• Oversee revenue accounting, GL, fixed assets (GPU and data center capex), AP, AR, payroll accounting, and balance sheet integrity
• Lead the completion of the Net Suite implementation across procure-to-pay and order-to-cash, in partnership with the Finance Systems function
• Drive integration of ancillary systems (Ramp, Jira, Rippling, Justworks) into Net Suite with audit-clean data flow

• Establish foundational internal controls, documentation, and review processes
• Build out the control framework as the business matures
• Lead remediation of any findings from the first-year audit

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA strongly preferred
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with a mix of Big 4 public accounting and in-house controllership experience
• 5+ years managing accounting teams of 5 or more, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong…