Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

Denver, CO

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform transforming how companies and individuals across the world build the capabilities needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving workplace. By combining on-demand, multi-language content with real-time innovation, Udemy delivers personalized experiences that empower organizations to scale workforce development and help individuals build the technical, business, and soft skills most relevant to their careers. Today, thousands of companies rely on Udemy Business for its enterprise solutions to build agile, future-ready teams. Udemy recently combined with Coursera to create one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms.

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Trkiye. This is a hybrid position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About Your Skills

• Accountability and Ownership: You take great initiative to independently identify, investigate, and resolve accounting issues. You use critical thinking to follow a defined decision making process, consider multiple perspectives, and know when to escalate for help. You hold yourself and others accountable and see projects through to resolution.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication: You develop relationships across the organization and leverage those to achieve shared goals. You effectively communicate and negotiate with stakeholders to define mutually-agreeable solutions that meet the requisite accounting requirements. You can effectively manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines.
• Problem Solving: You understand the importance of "getting in the weeds" while not losing sight of the bigger picture. You are a strong system-based and analytical thinker and work towards potential solutions with accounting and other cross-functional partners.
• Growth Mindset: You're eager to learn new skills, tools, and subject matter. You consider alternative perspectives, quickly absorb complex information, adapt to shifting priorities, and tackle unfamiliar challenges with confidence.
• Technical Depth: You bring strong foundational knowledge in accounting principles and operations, able to balance business operations and requirements with what's acceptable under the accounting rules. You are a keen researcher and bring a materiality and risk-based approach to your work.

About This Role

As Accounting Manager, you will be primarily responsible for a variety of corporate and technical accounting areas. You will be a hands-on operator and decision maker, developing best in class policies and processes while helping execute and transform the accounting close. Udemy and Coursera completed their merger in May 2026, and you will play a vital role in advising and navigating through the integration of multiple processes, accounting policies and systems. You will routinely collaborate with multiple cross-functional colleagues across the globe, including Payroll, Benefits, Engineering, Finance, People, and Procurement, to ensure proper accounting treatment and timely financial results. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Accounting.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage a team of two individual contributors, including oversight and review of work in a variety of corporate accounting areas including personnel costs, commissions, prepaid expenses, cash, investment activities, and fixed assets.
• Lead the accounting for internally-developed capitalized software in accordance with ASC 350-40, partnering with Engineering, Product, FP&A, and other stakeholders to ensure processes and systems are designed to support timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Ensure timely and accurate preparation and review of journal entries, reconciliations, fluctuation analysis, and other month-end close activities for the above areas, with a focus on close acceleration, automation and continuous improvement.
• Perform research and prepare supporting documentation over complex and other non-routine transactions, including but not limited to commissions, legal contingencies, intercompany transactions, foreign currency transactions, and deferred compensation.
• Coordinate with external auditors and provide support for audits, SOX internal control and compliance activities, financial statement tie out, and other regulatory requirements.
• Support integration-related projects by providing key subject matter expertise and implementing process and system-specific recommendations.
• Lead and develop your team of direct reports, including providing technical guidance, coaching, performance feedback, and opportunities for further career development.
• Assist with accounting analyses, system implementations, and other special projects as needed.

What You'll Have

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with high preference for experience at Big 4 public accounting firms or publicly-traded companies.
• 1+ year of direct people management experience.
• Experience working in the technology or SaaS industries.
• Experience working in a high volume, multi-currency transactions in a global business environment.
• Experience with NetSuite is highly preferred.
• Experience with data analytics or visualization tools (such as Alteryx) and AI tools (such as Floqast agents) a nice-to-have.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred.