Senior Manager of Accounting, Motive
$129-177k
Fleet management platform for trucks
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Fleet management platform for trucks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$129-177k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world’s trucks.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 2+ years in a manager or senior manager role; mix of public accounting and industry strongly preferred
- CPA license preferred
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP
- Extensive project management experience across multiple teams
- Experience in SaaS, hardware, or technology companies strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience with a modern ERP, ideally NetSuite, and close management tools such as FloQast
- Strong knowledge of SEC and SOX reporting requirements
- Demonstrated experience operating in a SOX environment, including ownership of key controls and support for internal/external audits
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a bias toward process improvement and automation
- Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively across finance and non-finance stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with tools such as Coupa, Navan, AuditBoard, and Jira strongly preferred
- Flexible working hours (if outside the Pacific Time Zone)
What the job involves
- The Senior Manager, Accounting is a key leader on the Corporate Accounting team responsible for driving an accurate and timely global month-end and quarter-end close, overseeing key areas such as treasury / cash, leases, software capitalization, inter-company transactions, and core GL operations, and maintaining a strong SOX-compliant control environment
- This role partners closely with Finance, Tax, Engineering, Legal, and cross-functional teams to support a rapidly scaling, multi-entity global organization
- This position reports to the Director, Accounting
- Own the monthly and quarterly close across multiple entities, ensuring all close tasks are completed on time and in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Manage and maintain the FloQast close checklist, including assignment of tasks, daily status meetings, and final sign-off
- Review journal entries (recurring, accruals, reclasses, manual entries) and ensure completeness, accuracy, and proper documentation in NetSuite
- Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and flux analysis; investigate and resolve variances across key accounts
- Oversee bank account reconciliations for all operating, collection, sweep, and investment accounts; ensure timely resolution of reconciling items
- Partner with Tax and Treasury on internal cash transfers, funding of international entities, and monitoring global cash balances
- Lead software and development cost capitalization (internal-use software and prepaid software), including review of capitalization workbooks and related journal entries
- Lead lease accounting under ASC 842, including review of new and modified lease arrangements, maintenance of lease schedules, and validation of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities
- Own key SOX controls across period-end close, treasury, lease, and software capitalization, ensuring documentation, evidence, and testing support are complete and accurate
- Partner with the SOX / Internal Audit team on design and operation of controls, remediation of deficiencies, and process enhancements
- Identify and drive process improvements and automation within NetSuite, FloQast, and related tools to support scalability and efficiency
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of accounting managers, senior accountants, and analysts, including goal-setting, coaching, and performance feedback
- Collaborate with FP&A, Tax, Supply Chain, Procurement, AP, Payroll, and Revenue Accounting to ensure alignment on accounting treatment and close deliverables
- Support external auditors with PBCs, walkthroughs, and audit testing for areas under your ownership
Our take
Trucking is a huge but fragmented industry that was largely ignored by Silicon Valley until companies such as Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) came along. The integrated fleet management platform acts as air traffic control for trucks, bringing drivers online and into the 21st century.
The company offers both hardware and software solutions to freight companies, allowing them to manage their fleet and keep their drivers safe. One of these solutions is an AI-powered dashcam that detects unsafe driving behavior in real time and instantly alerts the driver.
The platform, which is used by over 120,000 companies, from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, received $150 million in VC in 2025, which is being used to accelerate its investment in AI and grow its enterprise capabilities.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$150m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$190m
SERIES E
Total funding: $567.3m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Obaid Khan
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Studied Political Science and Government at University of California before founding KeepTruckin in 2013.
Shoaib Makani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Government & Economics at LSE. Analytics Intern at Yahoo. Worked for a year at Google as APMM. Went on to work in Business Development at AdMob.
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