Sr. Manager​/Director Finance & Accounting

Overview

Job Title:

Sr. Manager / Director, Finance

Location:

SF Bay Area

Reports to:

VP, Finance & Administration

On-site: 4-5 days in office

Video Labs is a professional intellectual property licensing platform with its headquarters in the Silicon Valley and a presence in Europe and Asia. We serve our clients globally with trusted executive, business, technical, legal, and licensing expertise. We serve the technology industry through focused patent aggregation, licensing programs, and consulting and expert services.

Video Labs’ vision is to optimize the global high-tech intellectual property environment to be efficient, respected, and balanced. This will allow technology companies to have predictable, low-cost design freedom and will provide fair and just compensation to innovators who create impactful patented inventions. Video Labs is well funded, has a core team of highly experienced business, intellectual property, and legal experts, and is rapidly growing across all aspects of its business.

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The Sr. Manager / Director, Finance & Accounting is a critical operating leader within Video Labs’ Finance & Administration (F&A) function. Reporting to the VP, Finance & Administration, this individual partners closely with senior leadership to ensure our financial foundation is accurate, timely, well-controlled, and scalable. The role exists to strengthen our core financial processes, provide resiliency for the function (eliminating single points of failure), and deliver the analytics, controls, and insights that enable disciplined decision-making and cash stewardship.

This is a hands-on role: you will lead the monthly close, elevate internal controls, drive forecasting discipline, own day-to-day AP/AR and vendor/DPO management, enhance cash and cost tracking (including revenue share and litigation-related spend), and implement pragmatic tools and process improvements. You will also contribute to Board and executive reporting, help operationalize the Approval Authority Matrix.

• Accounting Operations & Close Leadership: handle the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process end-to-end, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, amortization schedules, and classifications. Maintain an organized close calendar and ensure books are audit-ready, accurate, and delivered on schedule in Quick Books Online and supporting work papers.
• Internal Controls & Compliance:
  Strengthen and document an effective control environment aligned with GAAP and company policy. Implement and maintain approval workflows, segregation of duties, and evidence trails; support tax compliance and external CPA coordination. Operationalize the company’s Approval Authority Matrix within daily processes.
• FP&A:
  Budgeting, Forecasting & Management Reporting:
  Support and improve the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and rolling cash outlooks. Build concise management reporting and variance analysis that inform decisions by the VP, F&A, COO, CEO, SLT, and Board; drive scenario planning to anticipate risk and opportunities.
• AP/AR, Vendor & DPO Management:
  Administer AP/AR workflows end-to-end: vendor onboarding, PO/contract-to-invoice matching, coding, and payment schedules. Ensure accurate, timely invoicing and collections. Optimize Days Payable Outstanding while balancing vendor relationships and cash objectives.
• Cost Tracking & Revenue Share Accountability:
  Maintain granular cost tracking for patent acquisitions, ILCs, legal and litigation expenses, vendor costs, and contractual revenue shares. Support deal waterfall tracking and ensure obligations are timely, accurate, and well-documented.
• Cash, Banking & Controls:
  Coordinate with banking partners to execute payments under dual-control standards and policy. Monitor cash positions, implement DPO approach and reporting, support cash forecasting, and ensure treasury activities adhere to internal controls and authorization limits.
• Tools, Systems & Process Improvement:
  Implement or optimize pragmatic tools (e.g., Quick Books Online, Concur/expense management, dashboards/trackers) to improve accuracy, cycle time, and…