Accounting Manager

Overview

This role supports close management and consolidation initiatives within the Close and Consolidations Accounting team. The position combines financial transformation, close process ownership, and hands-on accounting responsibilities. Responsibilities include optimizing the close cycle, improving efficiency and scalability, owning key programs and communication rhythms, and ensuring accurate accounting for discrete close areas such as expense accruals and intercompany settlements.

Responsibilities

Close Management & Financial Transformation

• Co-lead close optimization and efficiency initiatives by identifying manual processes, building roadmaps, and driving improvements that reduce manual effort and strengthen scalability.
• Own close communications, facilitation, and tracking to maintain the operational rhythm of the close cycle.
• Overhaul and maintain the artifacts, templates, and frameworks used to coordinate close activity across the accounting organization.
• Lead recurring cross-team accounting programs (including close management and consolidation), driving standardization and coordination across teams.
• Provide oversight of the intercompany program by partnering with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and Compliance to confirm that shared services and transfer pricing agreements are operating as intended; flag issues that need attention.
• Represent accounting in Zillow Group–wide strategic projects such as M&A integrations, new entity formation, and reorganizations; project-manage related execution across the accounting organization.
• Develop and enhance operational policies and internal control frameworks to ensure SOX compliance.
• Deliver financial analysis and develop metrics that provide insight into close processes to support optimization, standardization, and scalability.

Discrete Close Ownership

• Own accounting for a focused set of close areas, including expense accruals, ensuring related journal entries and reconciliations are accurate and well supported.
• Review intercompany activity across a defined subset of entities operating under shared service and transfer pricing agreements, ensuring settlements are recorded accurately and in accordance with those agreements.
• Author or review monthly fluctuation analyses and month-end close documentation for owned areas.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally in a large public company environment.
• Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance required; CPA preferred.
• Strong US GAAP foundation with experience in intercompany accounting, multi-entity consolidation, and exposure to international subsidiaries and transfer-pricing processes preferred.
• Skilled at preparing and reviewing journal entries and reconciliations with a critical, analytical approach.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or support cross-functional projects and programs, balancing execution with strategic priorities.
• Process improvement and automation orientation, with a track record of scalable solutions.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills; comfortable presenting to leadership and driving cross-functional alignment across Finance, Tax, FP&A, Legal, and Technology teams without direct authority.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and build structure where none yet exists.
• Advanced Excel skills required; experience with Workday Financials or another large ERP and similar data tools preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA.
• Experience in intercompany accounting, multi-entity consolidation, and international subsidiaries and transfer-pricing processes.

Compensation & Benefits

• This role is eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary.
• The standard base pay range for this role in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC is $103,200.00 - $164,800.00 annually.
• Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Location

• Remote position.
• “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and instead work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company.
• U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.