Corporate Accounting Leader

The Global Corporate Accounting team manages and drives the close which is a critical process for ensuring accurate and timely financial statements for cross functional teams including the SEC reporting and finance teams. Our partners primarily include FP&A, Revenue Ops, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, IT, Sales Ops, Engineering, and Global Workplace Services. We operate a global team and work in lockstep with our offshore Corporate Accounting shared services team to enhance and scale processes. The Corporate Accounting team is responsible for accounting, adoption of new standards, and operationalizing the following areas including, but not limited to, payroll and related benefits, commissions, leases, and capitalized software, in accordance with US GAAP.

We are looking for a seasoned and experienced Corporate Accounting Leader to lead our Corporate Accounting team. This leader will shape the future state accounting function roadmap, automation strategy, and how AI reshapes the close as the company scales. In this role, you will bring knowledge of best practices and proven experience scaling accounting processes to drive the team. You will mentor the team and leverage AI to drive efficiencies to the close process while staying in compliance with regulatory requirements such as SOX. You will work cross-functionally across the organization solving complex problems and driving a culture of transparency and accountability. Your influencing skills will extend your impact deep into the broader finance org and beyond. This role reports to the Senior Director, Assistant Controller at our HQ in Palo Alto and is an in-office hybrid role.

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Department: Finance & Accounting