Senior Manager, Operations Accounting Data Center Infrastructure

Weights & Biases Weights & Biases · Data AI · Bellevue, WA +5 · Finance

This role is for a Senior Manager of Operations Accounting focused on Data Center Infrastructure. The primary responsibilities include managing construction-in-progress (CIP) accounting, fixed asset capitalization, depreciation, and SOX-compliant controls for large-scale data center construction programs. The role requires partnering with Construction, Procurement, and Finance to manage Cap Ex planning, oversee OFCI procurement, and ensure compliant asset capitalization and in-service activation. It also involves providing executive visibility into spending, risks, and schedules, and ensuring compliance with accounting and audit standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead enterprise-wide operations accounting for data center infrastructure construction, including T&I and COR reporting, fixed asset governance, Cap Ex accounting, and cash flow reporting across multi-site, capital-intensive programs.
  2. Design, implement, and operate SOX-compliant accounting processes supporting monthly close, construction-in-progress (CIP) accounting, asset capitalization, depreciation, impairment testing, valuation, and asset disposals in accordance with GAAP and CW policies.
  3. Maintain reconciliation integrity between fixed asset subledgers, CIP schedules, and the general ledger, including timely capitalization of OFCI and construction costs, accurate depreciation schedules, Cap Ex roll-forwards, and variance analysis versus approved budgets
  4. Produce standardized, auditable financial and operational reporting, including Cap Ex forecasts, spend-to-date, asset-in-service tracking, and variance analysis to support investment governance and capital allocation decisions.
  5. Establish, document, and test accounting controls related to capital projects, fixed assets, and close processes; support internal and external audits by providing documentation, reconciliations, and control evidence in compliance with SOX requirements.

Skills

Required

  • GAAP
  • SOX
  • internal controls
  • external reporting requirements
  • partner cross-functionally
  • influence senior stakeholders

Nice to have

  • CPA
  • public accounting background

What the JD emphasized

  • SOX-compliant controls
  • SOX-compliant accounting processes
  • SOX requirements