Senior Accounting Manager, AlphaSense
$150-170k
Market intelligence and search platform
Posted today
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$150-170k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience; 2-3+ years in a people manager role, with experience managing individual contributors and a team lead or manager
- CPA required
- Deep U.S. GAAP expertise: accrual accounting, prepaid assets, fixed asset capitalization (ASC 360), and lease accounting (ASC 842)
- Proficiency in NetSuite; experience with Ramp and/or Navan strongly preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
- Public accounting and public company experience with SaaS or technology industry experience preferred
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Proven time management skills, demonstrates the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines while leading a team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to lead and develop the accounting team while owning the month-end close for operational expenses
- Reporting to the Corporate Controller, this role partners closely with the broader accounting organization to ensure operating expenses are recorded accurately, on time, and in compliance with U.S. GAAP and internal policy
- This is a hands-on leadership role for a technically strong accountant who brings deep expertise in accrual accounting, prepaid assets, and fixed asset capitalization; and who can lead an AP team with clarity and motivate them to operate at a high standard
- You will be the go-to expert for operational expense accounting, driving the close process while managing a team of direct reports and overseeing AP operations across our tech stack (NetSuite, Ramp, and Navan)
- Support the month-end close process by managing detailed vendor expense analyses, accrual schedules, prepaids, fixed assets (ASC 360), and lease accounting under ASC 842, ensuring entries are prepared, reviewed, and posted timely
- Review balance account reconciliations and flux analyses
- Partner with the Technical Accounting team to operationalize new accounting guidance and policies into the close process
- Lead and mentor direct reports setting clear expectations and to support professional growth
- Establish and maintain team workflows, desk procedures, and SLAs to drive consistency, accuracy, and timeliness
- Manage the end-to-end AP process: invoice intake and coding, purchase order matching, vendor onboarding, payment runs, and vendor statement reconciliations
- Oversee the corporate card program (Ramp) and corporate travel program (Navan), enforcing policy compliance, reviewing transactions, and serving as the escalation point for employee questions
- Maintain a strong controls environment over AP and the expense close, including SOX controls
- Serve as a power user for NetSuite, Ramp, and Navan; optimizing workflows, configuration and reporting across all three
- Support external audits and other operational requests
- Ensure compliance with company expense policies and support any tax-related AP requirements (e.g., 1099 preparation)
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain: financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field, AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it has now set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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