# Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $200,000/year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Palantir is seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to oversee significant portions of Palantir's Corporate Accounting team, develop and implement transformational improvements and quality initiatives across a growing Accounting & Finance organization.

In this role, you'll support senior accounting leadership by developing strategies that prioritize team development, scalability, and value creation. You'll partner cross-functionally with key teams, build and maintain relationships, and collaborate to deliver results.

The ideal candidate will have a high degree of curiosity, initiative, and independence to hit the ground running, getting deep into work prepared by the team and identifying opportunities for improvement.

## Core Responsibilities

- Support senior leadership by ensuring high-quality work produced by the team and by supporting one-off projects and initiatives.

- Improve the overall quality and speed of accounting work-product delivery.

- Build and leverage cross-functional relationships across the company to deliver greater value to Finance and other internal teams.

- Exercise sound judgement and ensure that accounting conclusions are documented in reconciliations and technical memos in accordance with current policies and guidance.

- Communicate and present complex topics to leadership in an accessible format while retaining the ability to work at a detailed level as needed.

- Identify, design, and implement technology-enabled process improvements, leveraging internal tools to automate workflows, improve data quality and visibility, strengthen controls, and enable the Accounting team to focus on higher-value work.

## What We Value

- Resourcefulness and the ability to solve problems, including non-traditional or undefined problems, creatively and analytically.

- The ability to calibrate a room of peers and stakeholders, achieve alignment, and pull levers to bring greater value to Accounting and other internal teams.

- Sound judgment and composure in high-pressure situations along with the ability to ground decisions in data.

- Significant experience with accounting and finance systems, implementations, enhancements, and overall use of technology to scale the function.

## What We Require

- 8+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, with at least 4+ years of experience at a large international public accounting firm.

- CPA or equivalent certification is preferred.

- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills; able to maintain accuracy in work products and multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

## Additional Information

The salary range for this position is estimated to be $140,000 - $200,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives.

## Benefits

- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance.

- Employees are automatically covered by Palantir's basic life, AD&D and disability insurance.

- Commuter benefits.

- Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based.

- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year.

- 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

- Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events.

- Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents.

- Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation.

- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child.

- Employees can enroll in Palantir's 401k plan.

## Skills

### Required
- accounting
- finance
- leadership
- communication
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- CPA
- public accounting
- international experience

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