Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

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

📋 Description

• Oversee Thunderbird’s finance function, which encompasses accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and finance operations.

• Lead and nurture the finance team by setting priorities, defining responsibilities, implementing review practices, and ensuring accountability.

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

• Manage accounting and revenue recognition related to donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and other revenue sources.

• Direct the annual budgeting process, forecasting, long-term financial planning, and scenario analyses.

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

• Oversee tax matters, audits, indirect taxes, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and collaborate with external advisors.

• Assess financial, tax, accounting, and operational impacts of entering new jurisdictions or forming additional entities.

• Implement financial reporting, reconciliation, and control mechanisms for partner-led commercial arrangements with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal.

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

• Take charge of financial oversight of payroll across various providers in partnership 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 functions.

• Advise organizational leaders by converting complex financial data into straightforward recommendations.

• Report directly to the Chief Operating Officer and manage the Senior Staff Accountant and Senior FP&A Analyst.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Extensive accounting or controllership experience, including oversight of U.S. GAAP financial reporting, closing processes, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments.

• 5+ years of experience in people management within a finance or accounting setting.

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

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

• Experience in supporting partner-led commercial arrangements, which includes evaluating financial terms and related reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue recognition processes.

• Familiarity with merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST requirements.

• Experience in supporting an internationally distributed organization and managing financial obligations across different jurisdictions.

• Demonstrated ability to oversee tax, audit, and other external finance requirements while effectively managing external advisors.

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

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

• Strong judgment and comfort in people leadership, detailed financial review, hands-on problem-solving, and organization-level decision-making support.

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to collaborate across functions.

• Candidates must reside in the United States and possess permanent work authorization; visa sponsorship is not available.

• Bonus: experience with subsidiary, portfolio, federated, or affiliated organizational structures; new legal entities or jurisdictions; Intacct, Ramp, or similar systems; and mission-driven, open-source, nonprofit-affiliated organizations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible schedule.

• 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 PTO per year (prorated).

• Your birthday off.

• Year-end company shutdown.

• 9 wellbeing days.

• Public holidays.

• Other paid leave.

• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal/family activities.

• 401(k) contributions.

• Health, dental, & vision insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Employee assistance program.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid sick days.