Director of Accounting

Director Of Accounting

Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Accounting owns the accounting organization end to end: the global close, technical accounting and U.S. GAAP policy, internal controls, and audit. You will act as the company's de facto Controller — the final word on how transactions are recorded and how the numbers are defended.

This role suits a candidate who trained at a large public accounting firm, then moved in-house and grew through Senior Manager or Director of Accounting roles at technology companies. You have carried a close, survived audits, written the memos, and built the processes that let a finance team close faster with fewer surprises. You are comfortable being both the technical expert and the operator, and you have done it across time zones.

Immediate priority: lead the 2026 audit, conducted to PCAOB standards with a Big 4 audit firm, to a clean and on-time opinion. This is the defining deliverable of the role's first year and the primary lens through which candidates will be evaluated.

• Own the global month-, quarter-, and year-end close across all entities, driving cycle-time reduction without sacrificing accuracy.
• Own the consolidated financial statements, intercompany accounting, foreign currency translation, and the supporting reporting package delivered to the CFO, executive team, board, and investors.
• Own the general ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting systems roadmap, including ERP process design and automation of manual work.
• Own accounting operations — revenue, AR/collections, AP, payroll accounting, equity, leases, fixed assets, and treasury accounting.

• Serve as the internal authority on U.S. GAAP. Research complex transactions, write the technical position memos, and defend those positions with auditors.
• Own the accounting treatment for revenue recognition (ASC 606) across multi-element, milestone, and usage-based arrangements; leases (ASC 842); stock-based compensation (ASC 718); business combinations (ASC 805); and capitalized software (ASC 350-40).
• Maintain the global accounting policy manual and drive consistent application across all entities and regions.
• Assess and implement new accounting standards, and advise the CFO on the accounting implications of new commercial structures, financings, and M&A activity.

• Lead the 2026 audit to a clean, on-time opinion — conducted to PCAOB standards with a Big 4 audit firm. Own the audit plan, the PBC calendar, sampling and evidence requests, and every technical position put in front of the engagement team.
• Own the Big 4 auditor relationship end to end, including the engagement partner and manager cadence, scoping and materiality discussions, component and international audit coordination, and timely resolution of open items.
• Drive the company to a PCAOB-grade documentation standard: control descriptions, evidence retention, review sign-offs, and audit trails that withstand inspection-level scrutiny.
• Design, document, and operate the internal control environment, building toward SOX-grade controls as the company matures — with no material adjustments or significant deficiencies.
• Partner with Tax, Legal, and external advisors on direct and indirect tax provisions, transfer pricing support, statutory filings, and local regulatory compliance across international jurisdictions.

• Own the accounting automation agenda: identify manual, spreadsheet-dependent, and error-prone processes and systematically engineer them out.
• Modernize the close using current tooling — close management and task orchestration, automated account reconciliation and transaction matching, AP/expense automation, revenue and billing systems, and reporting and analytics layers.
• Partner directly with Engineering and IT to specify, prioritize, and implement internal tools and integrations that serve Accounting — data pipelines between operational systems and the ERP, automated journal entry feeds, custom reporting, and workflow and approval automation.
• Write clear functional requirements, act as…