Senior Manager, Finance & Accounting

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

📋 Description

• Direct MZLA’s finance division, encompassing accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations.

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

• Supervise monthly and annual closings, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls.

• Manage accounting and revenue recognition related to donations, subscriptions, enterprise agreements, partnerships, and various revenue sources.

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

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

• Handle tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and collaboration with external advisors.

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

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

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

• Maintain financial oversight of payroll across various providers in collaboration with the People team.

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

• Oversee cash-flow planning, treasury, banking, and investment operations.

• Advise organizational leaders by translating intricate financial data into straightforward recommendations.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Proven track record of enhancing budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization, along with the ability to convert complex information into clear insights and recommendations for non-finance leaders.

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

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

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

• Background in supporting an internationally distributed organization and managing financial obligations across multiple jurisdictions.

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

• Experience overseeing cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities.

• History of improving financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls.

• Strong judgment and comfort transitioning between leadership, detailed financial analysis, hands-on problem-solving, and organization-wide decision support.

• Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

• Regular working-hour overlap with North American time zones; candidates located elsewhere in the United States should ensure substantial overlap.

• Permanent work authorization for the specified country location; no visa sponsorship 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

• Additional 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