Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

Overview

This fully remote role is for a Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance, serving as the most senior finance professional within the organization. The position provides hands-on functional leadership across accounting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), finance operations, and organization-level decision support.

As the organization grows across donations, subscription services, enterprise offerings, and international operations, financial processes and reporting requirements are becoming more complex. This role is responsible for strengthening integration across accounting and FP&A, overseeing emerging revenue models and related tax obligations, and delivering clear financial analysis to support leadership decisions.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Head of Finance directly manages the Senior Staff Accountant and Senior FP&A Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Lead the finance function with overall responsibility for accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and finance operations.
• Manage and develop the finance team by establishing priorities, responsibilities, review practices, and accountability.
• Oversee monthly and annual close, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls.
• Oversee accounting and revenue recognition across donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and other revenue streams.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, longer-range financial planning, and scenario analysis.
• Develop management reporting and data visualizations that communicate trends, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions.
• Oversee tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and coordination with external advisers.
• Evaluate financial, tax, accounting, and operational implications of entering new jurisdictions or establishing additional entities.
• Partner with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal to establish financial reporting, reconciliation, and control processes for partner-led commercial arrangements.
• Oversee financial reporting to the organization’s parent organization and affiliated entities.
• Provide financial oversight of payroll across multiple providers in partnership with the People team.
• Document and strengthen finance systems and workflows, including accounting, expense management, payment-platform reconciliation, documentation, and automation.
• Oversee cash-flow planning, treasury, banking, and investment activities in close collaboration with the Senior FP&A Analyst.
• Advise organizational leaders by translating complex financial information into clear recommendations.

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience, including progressively responsible roles spanning accounting, financial planning and analysis, and finance operations.
• Significant accounting or controllership experience, including responsibility for U.S. GAAP financial reporting, close processes, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments.
• 5+ years of people management experience in a finance or accounting environment, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, career development, and team development.
• Demonstrated ability to improve budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization, and to translate complex information into insights and recommendations for non-finance leaders.
• Substantive experience with subscription, SaaS, digital-product, enterprise, or comparable technology-based revenue models.
• Experience supporting partner-led commercial arrangements (e.g., reseller, licensing, wholesale, or revenue-sharing models), including evaluating financial terms and developing or overseeing reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue-recognition processes.
• Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST requirements.
• Experience supporting an internationally distributed organization and coordinating financial obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven ability to oversee tax, audit, and other external finance requirements and manage outside advisers.
• Experience providing oversight and review of cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities, including developing recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Track record of strengthening financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls.
• Strong judgment and ability to balance people leadership, detailed financial review, practical hands-on problem-solving, and organization-level decision support.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to identify and explain financial risks, implications, and tradeoffs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within a subsidiary, portfolio, federated, or similarly affiliated organizational structure, including reporting to a parent organization or shareholder.
• Prior experience supporting the establishment of a new legal entity or expansion into a new jurisdiction.
• Familiarity with Intacct, Ramp, or comparable finance and expense-management systems.
• Experience in a mission-driven, open-source, nonprofit-affiliated, or similarly values-oriented organization.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary target: benchmarked to local markets and targeted at the 60th percentile of the peer market.
• Salary ranges for this role:
  • US: $165,000 - $190,000 USD
• The organization may consider candidates with strong skills but less than the required experience; title, level, and compensation will be determined based on qualifications and experience.

Benefits include:

• Annual bonus program
• Monthly remote work stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Access to a Coursera learning platform
• Company all-hands and team gatherings
• 24 days PTO per year (prorated)
• Year-end company shutdown
• 9 wellbeing days
• Your birthday (paid)
• Public holidays
• Other paid leave
• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal/family activities
• 401(k) contributions
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sick days

Location

• Full-time, fully remote position.
• This role requires regular working-hour overlap with the Chief Operating Officer, the finance team, and other colleagues across North American time zones.
• Candidates based in Eastern or Central time zones are preferred.
• Candidates elsewhere in the United States should be comfortable maintaining substantial overlap with those working hours.
• Flexibility for meetings with colleagues, advisers, and affiliated organizations in Europe is expected.

Work Eligibility

Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting. Applicants outside of these markets cannot be considered. Visa sponsorship is not provided.

Additional Information

• Availability to participate in required company-wide gatherings and team workweeks may involve periodic domestic or international travel.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate.

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