Sr. Accounting Manager

We are seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to join our Finance team at Databricks. As a hands-on, player-coach role, you will lead key areas of our global close, including GL, cloud infrastructure spend, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, cash, leases, and related balance sheet areas.

Responsibilities:

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close across key global accounting areas, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong control execution.
• Lead and develop a small team; set clear expectations, coach through the work, and raise the bar on ownership and review quality.
• Lead the adoption of AI and automation across your core close areas leveraging tools like Databricks to automate manual calculations, improve accrual accuracy, accelerate balance sheet reconciliations, and reduce close cycle times.
• Apply strong U.S. GAAP judgment to complex close areas, especially cloud infrastructure spend, vendor spend, usage-based accruals, capitalization considerations, fixed assets, leases, cash, and other accounting areas.
• Own balance sheet integrity for your areas, including reconciliations, flux analysis, variance explanations, and support for period-over-period movements.
• Standardize and govern global accounting processes across your areas, ensuring consistency across entities and regions.
• Partner with our Finance Transformation team to redesign processes, reduce manual work, improve data quality, and accelerate the close.
• Strengthen SOX compliance, documentation, reconciliations, journal entries, and accrual support.
• Support external audit requests for your areas with timely, well-supported documentation.
• Play a key Accounting role in the SAP implementation, partnering on process design, testing, data readiness, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization for your areas.
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Procurement, AP, and broader Finance teams to resolve issues at the source.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including close ownership across complex global accounting areas.
• 2+ years of people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and develop others on technical accounting concepts.
• CPA, SOX experience, and Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• Strong U.S. GAAP judgment and critical thinking.
• Experience with ERP systems; SAP experience preferred.
• Familiarity with tools like FloQast, Zip, or Emburse is a plus.
• Hands-on experience deploying or evaluating AI tools in a finance or accounting context.
• High ownership, low ego, detail-oriented, fast-moving, direct communicator, and calm under pressure.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.

Pay Range Transparency:

• The pay range for this role is $199,700-$274,550 USD.