Director of Technical Accounting
Palo Alto, CAFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Director-level role responsible for technical accounting leadership, complex accounting analyses under US GAAP, and scalable corporate accounting processes across the business.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the company’s technical accounting authority: research, conclude on, and document complex and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP, including leases, equity and stock-based compensation, capitalized costs, fixed and intangible assets, impairment, debt and financing arrangements, revenue, and strategic transactions.
- Own financial-statement disclosures, footnotes, accounting policies, and technical schedules, and monitor new standards for their impact on the company.
- Act as the primary contact for external auditors on technical matters, keeping positions well supported and audit-ready.
- Partner with Legal, People, Tax, FP&A, and executive leadership so accounting implications are identified before transactions are finalized.
- Lead the corporate-accounting close and control environment: reconciliations, account ownership, segregation of duties, approval controls, accruals, and audit evidence across close, procure-to-pay, payroll accounting, and fixed assets.
- Own the accounting design of our new NetSuite ERP as we stand it up, continuously refining configuration, workflows, data integrity, and reporting so the system scales with the business.
- Implement AI into individual steps of accounting workflows, with appropriate controls, review, and documentation around each use.
- Build the policies, process narratives, control matrices, and training that make the function repeatable and ready to scale; mentor and develop the accounting team.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience with a meaningful technical accounting and financial-reporting component; fintech, SaaS, or another high-growth technology environment preferred.
- Deep U.S. GAAP knowledge across leases, equity and stock-based compensation, capitalization, impairment, financing transactions, and revenue.
- Track record drafting technical accounting memos, preparing disclosures, and working directly with external auditors.
- Hands-on experience owning or implementing an ERP, ideally NetSuite, and using modern finance tools and automation to improve the close.
- A track record of proactively using AI tools to refine or create new processes with demonstrated, significant gains in speed. Experience with GitHub is a nice to have.
- CPA required or strongly preferred; Big Four or similarly rigorous public-accounting experience preferred.
- The judgment to distinguish routine operating decisions from transactions requiring technical analysis, escalation, or auditor consultation.
Skills
Required:Technical accountingUS GAAPERP implementation (NetSuite)Auditing liaison
Nice to have:AI in finance
Benefits
- Best in class cash compensation and meaningful equity
- A high trust environment with real ownership and direct access to company leaders
- Meals, wellness support, and office benefits designed for an in-person team
Last updated Sep 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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