Senior Manager, Accounting Transformation/pmo

Weights & Biases Weights & Biases · Data AI · Dallas, TX · Finance

This role is for a Senior Manager, Accounting Transformation/PMO at CoreWeave, focusing on process and system transformations within the Accounting team to improve efficiency, controls, and scalability. The responsibilities include developing roadmaps for process improvement and automation, collaborating with IT for system implementation, managing prioritization of improvement requests, and applying project management techniques to oversee key accounting-impacted projects. The role requires a strong understanding of GAAP, SOX, finance application capabilities, and project management tools, with experience in a technology industry public company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop the roadmap for process improvement, automation, and efficiency initiatives that take into account impacts to groups upstream and downstream from the requested improvements
  2. Effectively communicate roadmaps and plans to Accounting team colleagues and leadership, Finance department executives and Supply Chain business partners
  3. Lead process improvements and collaborate with IT to implement systems that streamline and automate processes and controls
  4. Receive process improvement proposals from Accounting stakeholders, assess importance, upstream and downstream change implications across the company, and resource impacts, and manage the prioritization of the list of improvements
  5. Proactively identify opportunities for both large and small process improvements and propose and implement solutions

Skills

Required

  • Master's or bachelor’s degree in systems, accounting or finance or related field
  • Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting requirements
  • SOX Internal Controls design
  • Experience with proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a Technology industry public company
  • Deep understanding of finance application capabilities, including large scale ERP, business intelligence and reporting solutions, forecasting, procurement systems, data quality and governance
  • Solid knowledge and prior usage of project management tools, e.g., Jira, Asana, MS Project, Smartsheet, etc and productivity platforms, e.g., G-suite, Slack, Sharepoint, Confluence, etc
  • Project or program management experience is a must
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Applicants must have work authorization that does not require sponsorship from the company now or in the future

Nice to have

  • prior Big 4
  • prior Auditing experience
  • CPA preferred
  • SaaS experience
  • revenue recognition
  • lease accounting preferred
  • Knowledge of functional areas (e.g., P2P, OTC, RTR, Tax, IT, FP&A, etc.) to collaborate cross-functionally preferred
  • certification preferred
  • PMP
  • CPA / Chartered
  • Master’s degree

What the JD emphasized

  • process improvement
  • automation
  • scalability
  • project management techniques
  • project management tools
  • project or program management experience is a must