Senior Accounting Manager

Airtable Airtable · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Accounting

This role is for a Senior Accounting Manager at Airtable. The primary focus is on transforming accounting operations through automation and AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency in financial reporting processes, including monthly close, accruals, flux analysis, and reconciliations. The role also involves supporting SOX compliance and financial audits.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and manage key aspects of the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process, including review of journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
  2. Leverage AI and automation to improve the efficiency of the month-end close process, driving a sustainable 5-day close by automating accruals, flux analysis, and reconciliations
  3. Drive continuous improvement across accounting processes, supporting SOX compliance and other cross-functional finance and systems initiatives
  4. Support the annual financial audit, ensuring readiness through strong documentation and timely responses to audit requests
  5. Measure and report on efficiency gains from AI-enabled workflows, including hours saved in tasks such as flux analysis, reconciliations, and journal entry preparation

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of progressive accounting experience
  • US GAAP
  • financial reporting
  • month-end close processes
  • journal entries
  • reconciliations
  • flux analysis
  • process automation
  • systems implementations
  • leveraging AI/data tools to improve accounting workflows
  • supporting external audits
  • internal control environments
  • SOX readiness
  • documentation
  • managing multiple priorities

Nice to have

  • public accounting experience
  • industry experience in a high-growth or technology-enabled company
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • systems and process improvement mindset
  • track record of implementing automation or improving accounting workflows
  • lead and develop team members

What the JD emphasized

  • AI and automation to improve the efficiency of the month-end close process
  • automating accruals, flux analysis, and reconciliations
  • efficiency gains from AI-enabled workflows