Senior Director of Accounting, AlphaSense
$190-261k
Market intelligence and search platform
Posted today
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$190-261k
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
- 15+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience in a high-growth SaaS or technology company
- CPA and Big 4 public accounting experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated success leading accounting teams through IPO preparation and/or operating as a public company
- Deep expertise in US GAAP and SOX compliance, and technical accounting, with strong awareness of public company best practices
- Proven record of building, leading, and scaling high-performing teams and implementing scalable systems and processes
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate technical accounting into actionable insights for senior leaders
- Exceptional communication, executive presence, and cross-functional partnership skills
What the job involves
- The AlphaSense Accounting team is responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the company's financial reporting and building the accounting infrastructure that scales with the business
- We exist to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial statements; maintain strong internal controls; manage the close process and technical accounting matters; and serve as a trusted partner to leadership, auditors, and the board on all matters of financial governance and reporting
- We are seeking a proven, strategic, and hands-on accounting leader to serve as our Senior Director, Accounting
- This role will be instrumental in partnering with the Controller to lead the core accounting operations as we continue scaling our high-growth SaaS business and prepare for public company readiness
- The Senior Director, Accounting will oversee accounting operations, while partnering closely with peer leaders across Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting, Tax, and Treasury
- This leader, in partnership with the Controller and the CAO leadership team, will ensure the company’s financial foundation is strong, scalable, and fully aligned with the requirements of a future public company
- This is a highly visible leadership position requiring an experienced operator who thrives in high-growth environments, is detail-oriented, and can drive organizational maturity while maintaining agility
- Leadership & Team Development:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing accounting organization with strong people leadership, accountability, and collaboration
- Partner with the Controller and peer functional leaders (Technical Accounting & Reporting, Tax, Treasury) to align priorities and deliver on enterprise-wide initiatives
- Build succession planning and talent development programs to sustain long-term team excellence
- Core Accounting Operations:
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process with rigor, accuracy, and timeliness
- Work with the Controller to develop a plan to reduce the monthly close cycle
- Drive automation and process improvement initiatives across the record-to-report cycles including with respect to software capitalization and variance analysis
- Controls, Processes & Systems:
- Design, implement, and maintain a robust internal control framework aligned with SOX requirements
- Optimize use of ERP and related technology to support scalable reporting and decision-making, including NetSuite, Workday, and FloQast
- Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal policies while partnering cross-functionally on enterprise system initiatives
- Build and document public company ready standard operating processes and policies
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 12 rounds)
Jun 2026
$350m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
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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