Reality Labs Digital Accounting Manager

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Austin, TX +1

This role is for a Digital Accounting Manager within Meta's Reality Labs division, focusing on financial accounting for digital products like VR games and immersive content. The role involves ensuring accurate financial reporting according to US GAAP, managing month-end close processes, and partnering with various teams. A key aspect is identifying and piloting AI-driven solutions to automate and improve accounting processes, requiring the candidate to have experience integrating AI tools, developing accounting policies for new products, and understanding complex accounting scenarios. The role also emphasizes skills in prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and ethical AI practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Establish and maintain an accurate and timely month-end close process for Reality Labs digital accounting areas, including software subscriptions, RL content transactions, and some hardware products
  2. Collaborate with Finance, Operations and Business Development teams to understand business models, and accurately account for digital products
  3. Identify and pilot AI-driven solutions to automate and enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of accounting processes specific to the Reality Labs product ecosystem
  4. Develop and maintain accounting policies and controls for new RL product launches, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and relevant revenue recognition standards including ASC 606
  5. Investigate product features, data flows, and contractual arrangements across Reality Labs hardware and digital content offerings to identify accounting risks and opportunities

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of relevant experience in accounting, including experience with hardware, digital content, or technology product accounting
  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, Math, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
  • Technical accounting background with working knowledge of US GAAP, including ASC 606 revenue recognition
  • Experience developing and maintaining accounting processes and controls for complex, multi-element product offerings
  • Experience communicating technical accounting positions and analysis to cross-functional stakeholders, distilling complex concepts into clear and actionable conclusions
  • Experience managing time-sensitive close processes while balancing evolving priorities and a broad range of stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to redesign accounting workflows and deliver measurable efficiency or quality improvements
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience with hardware and digital content accounting in a consumer electronics or technology company, including familiarity with subscription, marketplace, or platform revenue models
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle and data analysis tools such as SQL, Tableau, or Python to support accounting operations and reporting
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-driven solutions to automate and enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of accounting processes
  • integrate AI tools to redesign accounting workflows and deliver measurable efficiency or quality improvements
  • integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices