Corporate Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager for General Ledger (GL) Team

As the Accounting Manager for the General Ledger (GL) team, you will lead a team responsible for key corporate accounting areas and the integrity of related financial results. You will own critical monthly and quarterly close processes, evaluate the financial reporting implications of complex business arrangements, guide judgmental accounting decisions, and maintain a strong internal-control environment. You will collaborate closely with business and technical partners to understand business initiatives, identify and mitigate risks, remove barriers for the team, and use technology and innovation to build and improve efficient and scalable processes.

• Lead, develop, and support a high-performing team, setting clear priorities and expectations while fostering accountability and professional growth across key GL areas, including operating expenses, accruals, debt, and related balance-sheet and income-statement accounts.
• Own the team's monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, analytical reviews, variance explanations, management reporting, and audit support.
• Provide oversight and judgment on complex accounting matters, ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Partner closely with Finance & Strategy, Treasury, People, Legal, Procurement, Workplace, Finance Operations, and other teams to support business initiatives, resolve accounting issues, and optimize global processes.
• Build scalable processes that shorten the close, improve accuracy, timeliness, auditability, and the quality of financial explanations, reduce manual work, and establish clear ownership and consistent execution.
• Champion the thoughtful use of financial systems, data, automation, and AI by translating accounting needs into requirements and establishing appropriate review, monitoring, documentation, and controls.

• 10+ years of progressive public accounting and/or industry experience
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, with a CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and experience researching, evaluating, and communicating complex accounting conclusions
• Experience designing, implementing, and executing internal controls in a SOX or similarly controlled financial-reporting environment
• Demonstrated success improving accounting processes or systems and using complex datasets to investigate issues, assess results, and support complex decisions
• Strong people leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to prioritize and deliver high-quality results in a fast-moving environment

• Experience at a large public accounting firm evaluating high volume and high complexity transactions and within the technology, payments, financial services, an/or another rapidly scaling industry
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams and financial-systems implementations, integrations, and/or process transformations
• Proficiency with SQL, business-intelligence tools, automation, or AI-assisted accounting workflows, including the design of appropriate review and control procedures