Senior Manager, Finance & Accounting

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

📋 Description

• Direct and oversee MZLA’s finance function, taking overall responsibility for accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and finance operations.

• Lead and nurture MZLA’s 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 across various revenue streams including donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, and partnerships.

• Spearhead the annual budgeting process, forecasting, long-term financial planning, and scenario analysis.

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

• Oversee tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and collaborate with external advisers on related matters.

• Assess financial, tax, accounting, and operational impacts of potential new jurisdictions or entities.

• Establish financial reporting, reconciliation, and control processes for partner-led commercial arrangements in collaboration with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal.

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

• Ensure financial oversight of payroll across multiple providers in coordination with the People team.

• Enhance finance systems and workflows, including accounting, expense management, payment-platform reconciliation, documentation, and automation processes.

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

• Provide advice to organizational leaders by converting complex financial data into straightforward recommendations.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• At least 5 years of experience in people management within a finance or accounting setting, including coaching, providing feedback, prioritization, performance support, career development, and team growth.

• Proven capability in enhancing budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization, along with translating complex information into clear insights for non-finance leaders.

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

• Background in supporting partner-led commercial arrangements such as reseller, licensing, wholesale, or revenue-sharing models, including assessing financial terms and managing 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 coordinating financial duties for an internationally distributed organization across multiple jurisdictions.

• Proven track record in overseeing tax, audit, and other external finance obligations while effectively managing external advisers.

• Experience in reviewing cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities, along with developing recommendations for senior management.

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

• Strong judgment and ease in transitioning between team leadership, detailed financial analysis, practical problem-solving, and organization-wide decision support.

• Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities, including the capacity to identify and articulate financial risks, implications, and trade-offs.

• Regular working-hour overlap with the COO, finance team, and colleagues across North American time zones; preference for Eastern or Central time zones.

• Permanent work authorization for the specified country location in the posting; no visa sponsorship is 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 PTO per year (prorated)

• Your birthday off

• Year-end company shutdown

• 9 wellbeing days

• Public holidays

• Other paid leave

• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal or family activities

• 401(k) contributions

• Health, dental, & vision insurance

• Disability insurance

• Life insurance

• Employee assistance program

• Paid parental leave

• Paid sick days