Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the finance function at Thunderbird, encompassing accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and finance operations.

• Manage and nurture the finance team at Thunderbird, which includes the Senior Staff Accountant and Senior FP&A Analyst.

• Supervise the monthly and annual closing processes, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls.

• Oversee accounting and revenue recognition for various revenue sources such as donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and more.

• Direct the annual budgeting, forecasting, long-term financial planning, and scenario analysis efforts.

• Create management reports and visualizations that showcase trends, risks, trade-offs, and decision-making insights.

• Manage tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and liaise with external advisers.

• Assess the financial, tax, accounting, and operational implications of entering new markets or forming additional entities.

• Establish financial reporting, reconciliation, and control procedures for partner-led commercial collaborations with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal.

• Oversee financial reporting to Thunderbird’s parent organization and affiliated Mozilla entities.

• Hold financial oversight of payroll processes across various providers, collaborating with the People team.

• Document and enhance finance systems and workflows, including accounting, expense management, payment platform reconciliation, documentation, and automation.

• Supervise cash flow planning, treasury, banking, and investment activities.

• Provide advice to organizational leaders by simplifying complex financial information into actionable recommendations.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 15 years of relevant professional experience, including progressively responsible roles in accounting, financial planning and analysis, and finance operations.

• Significant experience in accounting or controllership, particularly with responsibilities for U.S. GAAP financial reporting, closing processes, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments.

• At least 5 years of experience managing personnel in a finance or accounting context.

• Proven ability to enhance budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization, converting complex data into clear insights for non-finance leaders.

• Extensive experience with subscription, SaaS, digital product, enterprise, or similar technology-based revenue models.

• Experience in supporting partner-led commercial arrangements, including assessing financial terms and overseeing related reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue recognition processes.

• Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST obligations.

• Experience in supporting an internationally distributed organization and managing financial responsibilities across various jurisdictions.

• Demonstrated capability to oversee tax, audit, and other external finance requirements, effectively managing outside advisers.

• Experience in providing oversight and review of cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities.

• A history of strengthening financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls.

• Strong judgment with the ability to navigate between people leadership, detailed financial reviews, hands-on problem-solving, and organization-level decision support.

• Excellent communication and collaborative skills across functions.

• Applicants must be residents of the United States and possess permanent work authorization; visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & schedule flexibility.

• Company-provided laptop.

• Annual bonus program.

• Monthly remote work stipend.

• Annual professional development stipend.

• Access to the Coursera learning platform.

• Company all-hands and team gatherings.

• 24 days of PTO per year (prorated).

• Your birthday off.

• Year-end company shutdown.

• 9 wellbeing days.

• Public holidays.

• Additional paid leave options.

• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal or family activities.

• 401(k) contributions.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Employee assistance program.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid sick days.