finance
Posted 2 days agoSr. Accounting Manager - Close & Consolidations
at Databricks
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the global close process across Finance, including key milestones, dependencies, status updates, risks, delays, and escalations.
- Drive AI and automation adoption across the close and consolidation process, including automated intercompany eliminations, AI-assisted consolidation variance analysis, and leveraging Databricks to improve data quality, reduce manual journal entries, and accelerate close cycle times.
- Execute and own the global consolidation process across monthly, quarterly, and annual close, ensuring the consolidated books are complete, accurate, timely, and audit-ready.
- Lead consolidation-related activities, including allocations, cost plus, eliminations, revaluation, intercompany activity, consolidated trial balance review, hedging and related technical close matters.
- Own functional currency assessments for new and existing entities, including evaluating operational impacts of currency designations, monitoring for triggering events that may require reassessment, and ensuring foreign currency translation and revaluation are executed accurately across the global close.
- Support new entities, acquisitions, and changes in corporate structure by ensuring close, consolidation, intercompany, and reporting impacts are understood and operationalized.
- Own chart of accounts structure and governance, ensuring the account structure supports scalable close processes, reporting needs, controls, and future-state operations.
- Lead and develop team members; set clear expectations, coach through the work, and raise the bar on ownership, review quality, and timeliness.
- Builder mindset — equally comfortable executing hands-on work and designing scalable future-state processes.
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.
- Success in this role requires strong operational execution, sound technical accounting judgment, and the ability to maintain a big-picture view across entities, regions, systems, processes, and teams.
- You’ll also play a key role in our SAP implementation and help build an offshore operating model that supports scale while maintaining strong review, judgment, and accountability.
- Play a key Accounting role in the SAP implementation, including close and consolidation process design, chart of accounts structure, testing, data readiness, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Credentials: CPA, SOX experience, and Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
- Experience operating in a large ERP environment; SAP
- experience required. Prior ERP implementation
- experience deploying or evaluating AI tools in a finance or accounting context, with a point of view on where automation creates real leverage in a close and consolidation environment versus where judgment and oversight remain critical.
- 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.
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- 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 direct ownership of close and consolidation processes across multiple entities, currencies, and regions.
- Leadership: 2+ years of people management experience, with a track record of setting high standards, coaching through complex accounting matters, and driving accountability across teams.
Benefits
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- 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.
- This is a hands-on, builder-oriented role responsible for overseeing the global close process across Finance, driving close discipline and accountability, and executing the global consolidation process.
- This role will be reporting to the Senior Director of Accounting.
- You’ll provide leadership with clear updates on close status, risks, and delays, ensure issues are escalated and resolved timely, and help design how the close process should operate in the future.
- Explain quarterly financial statement fluxes, including key drivers, for Auditors and Accounting/Finance leadership.
- Partner with our Transformation team to redesign close processes, reduce manual work, improve data quality, strengthen controls, and accelerate close timing.
- Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Technical Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Finance Systems, and broader Finance teams to resolve close issues at the source. What we look for: •
- GAAP expertise covering consolidation, intercompany accounting, foreign currency translation and revaluation, allocations, cost plus, eliminations, hedging, and functional currency assessments. Systems & ERP:
- experience strongly preferred. Comfort working with large datasets, system reports, reconciliations, and close management tools.
- Ownership & Mindset: High ownership, low ego, detail-oriented, fast-moving, direct communicator, and calm under pressure.