Director, Corporate Accounting and Consolidation

Overview

This role leads the Corporate Accounting and Consolidation team within the Controller function, partnering across Finance to drive enterprise close and consolidation. Responsibilities include setting strategy, ensuring technical rigor and operational excellence, managing people leaders, and modernizing how Accounting operates as the organization expands international capabilities and advances close, systems, automation, and AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead an accurate, timely, and well-controlled close and consolidation process across organizational entities, ensuring consolidated financial statements comply with US GAAP and accounting policies.
• Own Accounting’s preparation for and support of quarterly and annual external filings, including related reviews and audits, ensuring timely and accurate deliverables.
• Provide Finance leadership with a clear, synthesized view of close status, financial results, and emerging risks, translating Accounting work into timely insights that support decision-making.
• Lead corporate accounting across centralized accounting functions, including expense accruals, capitalized labor, cash and investments, leases, hedging, and fixed and intangible assets, ensuring accurate reporting and consistent execution.
• Build and sustain deep technical accounting expertise across the organization by ensuring teams identify and assess issues, develop and document accounting positions, and inform and support policy development in partnership with Technical Accounting.
• Own intercompany accounting, consolidation, foreign currency, and transfer pricing; lead cross-functional partnerships across Accounting, Tax, and Treasury to align strategy, execution, and compliance.
• Build and manage international accounting operations, including management of third-party providers, to support entity-level accounting, local GAAP and statutory reporting, regulatory compliance, and independent audits.
• Serve as functional owner for Workday Financials, FloQast, and other close tools, including setting the roadmap, ensuring usability, owning Finance Administration for configurations and master data, and partnering with Finance Technology on larger changes.
• Design and maintain efficient, scalable, and well-documented accounting processes that clearly identify risks and controls and help teams and leaders understand work, evaluate proposed changes, and assess scalability.
• Drive Finance Transformation across Accounting by moving improvements to policies, processes, systems, automation, and AI from idea to implementation, reducing manual effort, freeing team capacity, and delivering measurable value.
• Partner across Finance and the business on complex transactions and strategic initiatives, integrating new activities, acquisitions, and organizational changes into accounting processes, systems, controls, and reporting.
• Cultivate an inclusive and effective organization through clear expectations, coaching, and growth opportunities, balancing disciplined execution with the ability to pivot as priorities change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; CPA license.
• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 5+ years leading accounting teams and developing people leaders.
• Experience leading close and consolidation in a complex, multinational organization, including intercompany and transfer pricing accounting.
• Deep technical and operational accounting expertise across corporate accounting and consolidation, including US GAAP, lease accounting (ASC 842), and foreign currency, with experience developing and documenting accounting positions.
• Experience building scalable international accounting operations, including processes and systems to support accurate entity-level accounting and reporting.
• Ownership of accounting processes and internal controls in a SOX-compliant environment.
• Experience as business owner of an ERP or close platform, setting direction, owning functional configuration, and driving adoption across an accounting organization.
• Track record of moving system changes, process improvements, automation, and AI-enabled solutions from idea to implementation with urgency and sound judgment.
• Ability to move between executive-level synthesis and detailed technical work, delivering sound, timely analysis as priorities shift.
• Collaborative leadership approach that creates clarity, develops talent, and builds effective relationships with senior leaders, auditors, and business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Public company accounting and familiarity with SEC reporting requirements.
• Direct experience with Workday Financials and/or FloQast.
• Technology, SaaS, digital marketplace, or another fast-changing business.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range (California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC): $160,500.00 - $256,500.00 annually.
• Base pay range (Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia): $152,500.00 - $243,700.00 annually.
• Equity awards eligibility based on factors such as experience, performance, and location (actual amounts vary).
• Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Location

Remote. 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 employer. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.