finance
Posted 2 days agoSr. Accounting Manager
at Databricks
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
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.
- 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.
- Strengthen SOX compliance, documentation, reconciliations, journal entries, and accrual support.
- Support external audit requests for your areas with timely, well-supported documentation.
Requirements
- We're building a finance function that stays ahead of the curve — leveraging AI, automation, and modern tooling to operate at the pace Databricks demands.
- You'll be expected to apply U.S.
- You’ll own a high-quality close today while helping redesign how the close operates tomorrow, partnering closely with the Transformation team and playing a key Accounting role in our SAP implementation.
- 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.
- Credentials: CPA, SOX experience, and Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
- Experience with ERP systems; SAP
- experience is a plus. Familiarity with tools like FloQast, Zip, or Emburse is a plus.
- experience deploying or evaluating AI tools in a finance or accounting context, with proven ability to improve close processes through automation, process redesign, or stronger operating discipline.
- Familiarity with data platforms like Databricks is a strong plus.
- Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range.
- Databricks is the data and AI company.
- More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.
- Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.
- To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter , LinkedIn and Facebook . Benefits
- At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive
- At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
- Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance
Experience
- Experience: 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including close ownership across complex global accounting areas such as GL, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, cash, and leases.
- Leadership: 2+ years of people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and develop others on technical accounting concepts while maintaining a high-quality, efficient close.
Benefits
- Pay Range Transparency
- Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
- The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
- The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the
- Zone 1 Pay Range $199,700 — $274,550 USD About Databricks
- benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the
Additional details
- While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered.
- The Senior Manager, Accounting, that we are looking to add to the team will lead key areas of our global close, including GL, cloud infrastructure spend, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, cash, leases, and related balance sheet areas.
- This is a hands-on, player-coach role leading a small team and reporting to the Senior Director of Accounting.
- Success in this role requires both strong operational execution and sound technical accounting judgment.
- GAAP expertise to complex accounting matters, make well-reasoned accounting conclusions, and ensure the team consistently delivers an accurate, audit-ready close.
- 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
- Partner with our Finance Transformation team to redesign processes, reduce manual work, improve data quality, and accelerate the close.
- Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Procurement, AP, and broader Finance teams to resolve issues at the source. What we look for: •
- Technical Accounting: Strong U.S. GAAP judgment and critical thinking; you can reason through complex facts, identify risks, challenge assumptions, and know where to dig deeper. Systems & ERP:
- Ownership & Mindset: High ownership, low ego, detail-oriented, fast-moving, direct communicator, and calm under pressure. Open-minded and change-oriented.