Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

Overview

This fully remote role is for a Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance, serving as the organization’s most senior finance professional. The position reports to the Chief Operating Officer and is a hands-on functional leadership role responsible for accounting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), tax, treasury, finance operations, and organization-level decision support.

The role oversees close, reporting, internal controls, budgeting and forecasting, management reporting, and financial oversight across multiple revenue models and international operations. Regular overlap with the COO, finance team, and colleagues across North American time zones is required.

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, setting clear 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 visualizations highlighting trends, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions.
• Oversee tax, audits, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and related work 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 organizations.
• 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.
• Serve as a trusted finance adviser to organizational leaders, 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 clear 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, revenue-sharing), 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 effectively 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 comfort moving between 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 work 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 to the 60th percentile of the peer market.
• Salary ranges for this role:
  • US: $165,000 - $190,000 USD
• Annual bonus program.

Benefits include:

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

Location

This is a full-time, fully remote position.

Required working-hour overlap with the COO, 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 requirements:

• Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting.
• The organization is unable to consider applicants outside of these markets at this time and does not provide visa sponsorship.

Additional Information

• Availability to participate in required company-wide gatherings and team workweeks, which 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 during the job application or interview process.