Senior Accounting Manager
Overview
Join a rapidly growing, globally operating manufacturing organization as a hands-on Senior Accounting Manager and trusted partner to the Controller. This individual-contributor role is ideal for an accounting professional who thrives in an evolving environment, brings strong manufacturing and global consolidation experience, and is ready to build structure, strengthen processes, and deliver accurate financial reporting across multiple entities.
You will own key accounting activities from journal entries and reconciliations through close, consolidation, audit support, and process improvement. Success in this role requires sound judgment, attention to detail, a willingness to investigate complex issues, and the confidence to ask questions and push back when needed.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience within the manufacturing industry.
- Hands-on experience with general ledger accounting and month-end financial close.
- Experience with global, multi-entity consolidations involving multiple currencies.
- Knowledge of intercompany accounting, eliminations, foreign currency remeasurement and translation, and cumulative translation adjustments.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and the ability to apply accounting principles to operational transactions and financial reporting.
- Practical understanding of manufacturing accounting, including:
- Inventory valuation
- Cost accounting concepts
- Standard costs and manufacturing variances
- Overhead allocation
- Excess and obsolete inventory reserves
- Work in process and finished goods
- Inventory cutoff and goods received not invoiced
- Experience with balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, fixed assets, construction in progress, leases, prepaids, and other core accounting areas.
- Proficiency with NetSuite ; the ability to prepare entries, extract financial data, reconcile subledgers, and develop reports or saved searches.
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, and analysis of large datasets.
- Ability to independently research accounting issues, document conclusions, investigate discrepancies, and recommend resolutions.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines and deliver accurate, review-ready work.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with international finance teams and cross-functional partners across time zones.
- Willingness to work in an unstructured, fast-changing environment and take on varied responsibilities.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- NetSuite OneWorld experience.
- Experience supporting acquisition integration and onboarding new legal entities.
- Familiarity with Carta and Workday payroll systems.
- Experience with purchase accounting, opening balance sheet reconciliations, chart of accounts mapping, and subsidiary reporting packages.
- Experience supporting audits, SOX-readiness initiatives, control remediation, or internal-control improvements.
- Experience developing accounting procedures, improving documentation, and scaling close and reporting processes.
- Exposure to transfer-pricing-related entries, intercompany funding, and treasury activities.
- Interest in learning and applying AI tools to improve accounting efficiency and reporting.
Preferred Education and Experience
The preferred candidate will hold a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline and bring 5–7 years of progressive accounting experience in manufacturing , including experience with global consolidations, multiple legal entities, intercompany accounting, inventory, cost accounting, and month-end close.
Experience working in a rapidly changing or acquisition-driven organization is highly beneficial. This role is designed for an experienced individual contributor who can operate independently while partnering closely with accounting leadership, operations, supply chain, tax, treasury, and international finance teams.
Other Requirements
- This is a contract-to-hire, onsite role based in San Jose, California.
- Candidates must be local to the Bay Area and able to commute to the San Jose office near the Great America/Santa Clara border.
- The position requires at least four days per week in the office, Monday through Thursday, during the first 90 days to support onboarding and integration.
- This is an individual-contributor position with no direct reports.
- Candidates must be thorough, proactive, comfortable challenging assumptions, and willing to speak up when accounting issues or process risks require attention.
