Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting and Innovation Boston, MA

Title:

Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting and Innovation

Location:

Boston, MA

Full time

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

This role is a hybrid position

This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston office locations and should expect to be in office 3-4 days per week.

Sonos is looking for a Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting and Innovation professional to join the Corporate Accounting team. This role combines strong corporate accounting expertise — consolidations, technical accounting, and external reporting support — with a hands‑on focus on AI, automation, and scalable process design. As Sonos accounting modernizes from manual, review-heavy workflows toward AI-enabled and self‑service processes, this person will be a primary architect of that shift within the Corporate Accounting pillar.

The ideal candidate brings solid technical accounting knowledge together with real experience using AI tools, scripting, and workflow automation to reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and speed up the close and reporting cycle. Accounting accuracy and judgment remain the foundation — automation is what frees that judgment to focus on the areas that actually need it.

• Design and implement AI-assisted and automated workflows across consolidations, technical accounting, close, and reconciliation review processes.
• Identify manual or repetitive corporate accounting tasks and redesign them using AI tools, scripting (Google Apps Script, Python), and financial systems integrations.
• Build scalable work papers, dashboards, exception reporting, and validation checks — including tools that generate preliminary variance commentary for financial statement fluxes — to improve efficiency and review quality.
• Partner with Finance Systems, Data, and IT to ensure automated solutions are reliable, auditable, controlled, and SOX-compliant.
• Evaluate emerging AI and automation tools and recommend practical applications for Corporate Accounting.
• Ensure AI-generated outputs are validated using professional judgment and technical accounting knowledge before use in close, consolidation, or reporting deliverables.

• Own complex technical accounting areas and related processes, including lease accounting (ASC 842), software capitalization projects (ASC 350-40), and compensation (ASC 718); building repeatable and well-documented processes rather than one-off analysis.
• Support the consolidation process, including foreign exchange revaluations, intercompany eliminations, and complex consolidation workflows, with direct ownership of specialized areas.
• Design and oversee the policy that determines which reconciliations and journal entries require full review versus automated exception-based sign-off, retaining final approval authority on higher-risk areas so review time concentrates on genuine anomalies.
• Continuously improve the quarterly and annual reporting and audit cycle — automating flux analysis and variance commentary across the cash flow, balance sheet, and income statement, as well as audit schedule preparation and tie-out validation — interacting with external auditors as needed.

• Serve as a practical technology builder…