Senior Accounting Manager

Role Description

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. The Senior Manager, Accounting, will lead key areas of our global close, including:

• GL
• Cloud infrastructure spend
• Accruals
• Prepaids
• Fixed assets
• Cash
• Leases
• Related balance sheet areas

This is a hands-on, player-coach role leading a small team and reporting to the Senior Director of Accounting. Close quality is non-negotiable. Success in this role requires:

• Strong operational execution
• Sound technical accounting judgment

You'll be expected to apply U.S. GAAP expertise to complex accounting matters, make well-reasoned accounting conclusions, and ensure the team consistently delivers an accurate, audit-ready close. You’ll own a high-quality close today while helping redesign how the close operates tomorrow, partnering closely with the Transformation team and playing a key Accounting role in our SAP implementation.

The impact you will have:

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close across key global accounting areas, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong control execution.
• Lead and develop a small team; set clear expectations, coach through the work, and raise the bar on ownership and review quality.
• Lead the adoption of AI and automation across your core close areas leveraging tools like Databricks.
• Apply strong U.S. GAAP judgment to complex close areas.
• Own balance sheet integrity for your areas, including reconciliations, flux analysis, variance explanations, and support for period-over-period movements.
• Standardize and govern global accounting processes across your areas.
• Partner with our Finance Transformation team to redesign processes, reduce manual work, improve data quality, and accelerate the close.
• Strengthen SOX compliance, documentation, reconciliations, journal entries, and accrual support.
• Support external audit requests for your areas with timely, well-supported documentation.
• Play a key Accounting role in the SAP implementation.
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Procurement, AP, and broader Finance teams to resolve issues at the source.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including close ownership across complex global accounting areas.
• 2+ years of people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and develop others.
• CPA, SOX experience, and Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• Strong U.S. GAAP judgment and critical thinking.
• Experience with ERP systems; SAP experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience deploying or evaluating AI tools in a finance or accounting context.
• High ownership, low ego, detail-oriented, fast-moving, direct communicator, and calm under pressure.
• High-growth technology company experience strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Experience with tools like FloQast, Zip, or Emburse is a plus.
• Familiarity with data platforms like Databricks is a strong plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.

Company Description

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide 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.