Accounting Manager, GL & Close

Responsibilities

• Own critical-path monthly close workstreams, drive open items to completion, escalate blockers, and maintain the close calendar.
• Prepare complex, judgmental accounting areas including stock-based compensation, leases, capitalized software, payroll and compensation accruals, intercompany, and foreign currency.
• Review established areas such as fixed assets, prepaids, cash, recurring accruals, journal entries, accounts payable, and expense reports.
• Own consolidation, the close package, and month-over-month and budget-to-actual variance narratives.
• Coach and develop the Senior Accountant, delegate work effectively, and hire additional accounting staff as the team scales.
• Support the first external audit by preparing PBC packages, leading walkthroughs, and communicating directly with auditors.
• Design documented, evidenced, repeatable close controls suitable for SOX.
• Own close-process design, schedule migration, cutover reconciliations, and parallel-run validation during the ERP migration off Xero.
• Build AI-enabled workflows for reconciliation matching, anomaly detection, schedule and rollforward generation, draft journal entries and variance narratives, PBC assembly, and workflow automation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on ownership of technical close areas and experience reviewing another accountant’s work.
• Active CPA preferred; Big Four or national accounting firm experience is a plus.
• Strong operational US GAAP knowledge covering capitalization, equity compensation, leases, payroll and compensation, intercompany, foreign currency, and cutoff.
• Experience with ERP and accounting systems, equity administration platforms such as Carta, payroll systems, close tools such as Numeric, FloQast, or BlackLine, and spend platforms such as Ramp.
• Demonstrated AI-native working style, including daily use of LLMs for accounting work and at least one tool adopted by others in daily operations.
• Comfort building small scripts with Python, SQL, or Google Apps Script for schedules, reconciliations, data pulls, and automation.
• Strong review, coaching, written communication, ownership, integrity, and adaptability.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience preparing for or running a company’s first external audit.
• Experience implementing or migrating an ERP, particularly from a small-business system to a scalable platform.
• SaaS, usage-based, or AI infrastructure accounting experience.
• Exposure to multi-entity and international intercompany accounting.
• SOX control design and documentation experience.