Senior Manager of Accounting, Fivetran
$172.1-215.1k
+ RSU stock grants (may vary by country and worker type)
Office located in Oakland, CA
Automated data movement platform
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Automated data movement platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172.1-215.1k
+ RSU stock grants (may vary by country and worker type)
Office located in Oakland, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make access to data s simple and reliable as electricity.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate combines strong accounting expertise with a builder's mindset
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership of corporate or GL accounting functions within a public company or similarly complex environment
- 4+ years of people leadership experience; experience managing managers preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, financial close processes, internal controls, and accounting operations
- Experience within a SaaS, software, technology, or data business strongly preferred
- Demonstrated success leading meaningful Accounting or Finance transformation initiatives
- Strong systems orientation with experience improving ERP, close management, reconciliation, workflow, or other Finance technology platforms
- Strong understanding of AI and automation and an ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical accounting applications
- Excellent project management, change leadership, and executive communication skills
- Ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution and influence stakeholders across Finance and the broader organization
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting to lead our corporate accounting function and help shape the next generation of our Finance organization
- This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for the day-to-day General Ledger (GL) accounting function while also serving as a key transformation leader across Accounting and Finance
- You will ensure an accurate, timely, and well-controlled close while rethinking how accounting work gets done—simplifying processes, improving systems and data, expanding automation, and driving practical adoption of AI across the accounting organization
- This role requires a leader who can operate at both strategic and detailed levels, from defining the future-state accounting operating model to solving complex accounting, process, and systems challenges
- Own corporate accounting operations, including the General Ledger, month-end and quarter-end close, reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, intercompany, and related activities
- Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, ensuring financial results are accurate, well-supported, controlled, and delivered on time
- Maintain a strong internal control environment and build processes that scale with the growth and complexity of the business
- Partner closely with Technical Accounting, Revenue, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payroll, Legal, IT, and other teams on accounting and business matters
- Support external audits and financial reporting requirements
- Serve as a transformation leader for Accounting, developing and executing a roadmap for a more automated, scalable, and data-driven organization
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual work, accelerate the close, improve data quality, strengthen controls, and standardize processes
- Lead cross-functional initiatives involving accounting systems, financial data, integrations, workflow automation, and process redesign
- Champion the responsible adoption of AI across Accounting, identifying and implementing high-value use cases that improve productivity, quality, and employee experience
- Build AI capabilities across the team through training, experimentation, and best-practice sharing while establishing appropriate governance and human oversight
- Establish metrics to measure improvements in close performance, automation, productivity, and quality
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing accounting team capable of operating effectively in a fast-growing SaaS/Data environment
- Develop future leaders by increasing ownership and building stronger accounting, technology, and business capabilities across the team
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement where the team challenges existing processes and embraces technology, automation, and new ways of working
- Balance operational excellence with transformation, ensuring the organization executes reliably while continuously improving how work gets done
- Success in this role goes beyond delivering an accurate close
- You will help build an accounting organization that is increasingly automated, intelligent, scalable, and forward-looking
- You will create a more efficient and predictable close, reduce reliance on manual processes, embed AI and automation into how the team operates, and build a strong leadership bench
- Ultimately, this role will help define what a modern Accounting organization should look like in an AI-enabled SaaS/Data company
Our take
Fivetran is a data integration company focused on one simple idea: making data easy to move and use. It provides a fully managed platform that automatically moves data from hundreds of sources into cloud destinations, helping team centralize information without building or maintaining complex pipelines. So, by handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, Fivetran allows organizations to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time working on their data.
This approach has a real and growing impact, with more than 700 fully managed connectors, Fivetran supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments and keeps data accurate and secure as it flows into analytics and AI systems. Trusted by over 7,600 customers worldwide, the platform helps businesses standardize how data is collected and shared across teams, breaking down silos and making insights more accessible. And the result is a stronger data foundation that supports faster decision-making and innovation.
In 2025, the company's momentum was also recognized with a Microsoft Marketplace Partner of the Year Award and a finalist spot for Microsoft's Americas Emerging Partner of the Year. These milestones reflect its role in helping enterprises modernize data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and prepare for AI-driven workloads. By continuing to deepen its partnerships and focus on reliable, automated data movement, Fivetran is well positioned to carry this success forward as organizations increasingly rely on data s the backbone of future intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$565m
SERIES D
Jun 2020
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $727.7m
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
George Fraser
(CEO)George graduated with a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Taylor Brown
(COO)Taylor studied Business Administration (focusing on design strategy) at California College of the Arts to Masters level.
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