Director of Accounting, Khan Academy
$185.6-232k
$250,803 - $313,504 CAN
Nonprofit online education platform
Open for applications
Nonprofit online education platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185.6-232k
$250,803 - $313,504 CAN
1001+ employees
Company mission
Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- CPA required
- 5+ years of experience as a Controller or similar role, with expertise in overseeing a wide range of financial operations, navigating the complexities of varied revenue models, and effectively engaging in cross-functional collaboration within a mid to large-sized organization
- Experience managing complex revenue cases, including earned income and contribution revenue, reviewing contracts, and navigating multiple audits. (ASC 606, ASC 958)
- Hands-on experience in Sage Intacct, Netsuite, Workday, or similar finance and accounting systems
- Non-profit experience strongly preferred
- Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS), EdTech, a plus
- Experience in a multi-entity environment (and/or international subsidiary) a plus but not required
- Growth mindset and love of learning and development
- Willingness and ability to roll up your sleeves and join the team in day-to-day operations
- Proven leadership skills and experience to effectively manage teams and multiple priorities
- Passion and commitment to our mission
- Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced and versatile Director of Accounting who thrives in changing and developing environments
- We are a small and mighty finance and accounting team managing a $100 million budget for one of the most well-known non-profit EdTech organizations in the world
- Reporting to the CFO, the Director of Accounting will lead all day-to-day finance operations of a budget of $100 million and supervise a team of five staff members including functional responsibility over accounting, revenue, reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, audit, investments, taxes, and financial compliance
- The Director of Accounting will oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reconciliations, ensuring they comply with GAAP standards and regulatory requirements
- While managers handle daily operations, this role requires a more strategic approach by continuously monitoring and evaluating financial processes, identifying potential risks, and implementing necessary changes to controls or processes
- This includes not only supervising current operations but also proactively anticipating and addressing issues, ensuring the organization’s financial system and process remains accurate, compliant, and responsive to evolving needs and risks
- Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reconciliations ensuring compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements
- Manage annual financial audit, ensuring strong fiscal management and financial controls throughout the year as well as efficient and effective audit preparations
- Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual global close processes, including India and Brazil subsidiaries
- Assist in the presentation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and variance analysis
- Oversee cash management processes to ensure sufficient liquidity
- Manage and comply with local, state, federal, and select international reporting requirements and tax filings including the 990
- Work directly with India and Brazil Heads of Finance for audit, close, and consolidation activities
- Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
- Partner with and support the FP&A team in various business analysis and financial planning projects
- Ensures strong internal controls and that the organization complies with relevant regulations, such as GAAP, grant compliance, and federal/state requirements
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to grant compliance by implementing and monitoring internal controls and reviewing grant-related transactions to ensure the appropriate use of funds
- Serve as the Controller for Khan Academy
- In partnership with the CFO, manage and support the development of the payroll, expense, and revenue teams
- Provide subject matter expertise support to the accounting team with particular attention to revenue recognition and new accounting standards
Our take
Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides free online education materials, including teacher tools, instruction videos, and practice exercises to support users of all ages. It has over 10 million users a month and covers subjects all the way up to college level.
With nearly a quarter of American adults unable to use mathematics in daily life, Khan Academy’s interactive quizzes, instructional videos, and teacher tools are timely. Khan Academy started life as a series of educational YouTube videos, before building a full-scale platform after receiving an influx of donations from Silicon Valley philanthropists. This background has led it to embrace rather than reject the educational possibilities of new tech such as AI, with the founder regarding traditional institution's banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.
The company offers its tools completely for free, instead relying on donations and volunteers. A key focus is tackling wealth inequality in education. A partnership with the College Board (who produce entrance examinations for higher education) has made access to SAT test prep materials free for millions. 2024 saw a partnership with Microsoft for Khan Academy's Khanmigo product, now free to use for Microsoft customers.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2020
$3m
GRANT
Oct 2017
$3m
GRANT
Total funding: $16.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Dental insurance
- Optical insurance
- Life insurance
- Performance bonus
- 401K plan
- Family medical leave
- Diversity program
- Pet friendly workplace
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together
Company values
- Live and breathe learners - We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights, research, and experience to build content, products, services, and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners
- Take a stand - As a company, we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However, we also listen, learn and flex in the face of new data, and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
- Work responsibly and sustainably - We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon, so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit, we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners, and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
- Embrace diverse perspectives - We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices, perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger, more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals, we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen, learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made, we commit to moving forward as a united team
- Deliver wow - We insist on high standards and deliver delightful, effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things - each of which aligns to our ambitious vision - so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
- Cultivate learning mindset - We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings, ourselves, and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and aren’t afraid to fail. We don't let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals
- Bring out the joy - We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates, partners and donors
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
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Leadership
Caroline Hu Flexer
(CEO)Holds a BA and MArch in Architecture from Stanford and Harvard University. They also have an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and formerly co-founded Duck Duck Moose, a mobile educational platform for children.
Salman Khan
(Executive Director)They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.
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