Director of Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting, Tanium
$206-316k
+ Equity Awards
3+ days a week in office (Emeryville, CA)
Security & systems management platform
Be an early applicant
Security & systems management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$206-316k
+ Equity Awards
3+ days a week in office (Emeryville, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide manageability and security at scale for anything with a chip.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in Accounting or Finance
- CPA license or equivalent
- 10+ years of relevant work experience
- Proficiency in US GAAP and SEC requirements
- Has experience leading a team
- Background in public accounting (e.g., Big 4) combined with in-house experience at a high-growth SaaS or technology company
What the job involves
- The Director, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting, serves as a key leader overseeing the company's technical accounting and financial reporting functions, while acting as a critical cross-functional partner across finance, tax, legal, and the broader organization
- This position is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of U.S. GAAP financial statements and footnote disclosures, maintaining corporate accounting policies, and interpreting the impact of evolving FASB and SEC pronouncements
- By engaging closely with external auditors, internal stakeholders, and leadership, this leader will drive audit readiness, support special projects such as IPO readiness, and leverage AI tools to continuously improve reporting processes
- This leader will lead a high-performing team, cultivate strong cross-departmental relationships, and champion operational excellence to manage risk and support business growth across the enterprise
- Manage, mentor, and lead 2 team members covering the Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting functions, ensuring accurate and timely execution of all related business and accounting operations
- Own the end-to-end preparation and execution of the company’s U.S. GAAP financial statements and accompanying footnote disclosures
- Stay current on FASB and SEC pronouncements and interpret impact to the company in partnership with internal partners and external auditors and identify, research, and prepare technical memoranda for complex transactions
- Develop, maintain, and update corporate accounting policies to ensure global consistency and compliance with US GAAP
- Manage all non-revenue technical accounting requirements for the company, including leasing, capitalized internal-use software, investments, EPS, and FX risk management programs for the company’s multi-currency operations
- Partner with accounting leadership to establish, implement, and continuously evolve a Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance framework, including risk assessment, control design, documentation, testing, remediation, and optimization as the company scales
- Serve as a key liaison for external auditors, ensuring all deliverables are provided timely and resolving any audit inquiries
- Manage the quarterly 409A valuation process
- Drive special projects as they arise, such as implementing new accounting standards, IPO readiness, system migrations, and process automation
- Embrace and leverage AI tools to drive process and reporting efficiencies / optimization
Our take
For millions of companies, cyber security is high on the agenda, especially as remote working has become the norm. Tanium offers a security and systems management platform that allows real-time data collection at an enterprise scale. It covers customers such as AutoNation, GoDaddy, and Whirlpool who use the company’s software to stay abreast of the ever-increasing level of sophisticated cyber attacks.
A valuable tool for enterprises and government organisations, Tanium partners with leading platforms and service providers across the world like Google Cloud, Oracle and Verizon. In doing so, it allows security and IT teams access to accurate information on the state of endpoints, helping it to realise new levels of business resilience.
The company continues to innovate its offering through both further development and partnerships. For example, it collaborated with Salesforce to support IT service management, remote monitoring and management, and cybersecurity capabilities. It also made its autonomous operating system generally available to all commercial cloud customers in 2026, with more than 1,300 organisations adopting it in the first six weeks.
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Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $805.7m
Company benefits
- Equity awards
- Generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan
- Family planning benefits
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Transportation savings account
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Business travel accident insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Disability insurance
Company HQ
Lakeview, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
David Hindawi
(Executive Chairman)Before co-founding Tanium, David founded BigFix Inc, a systems management tool that IBM acquired, and Software Ventures, a leader in telecommunications software. They have several software patents in network communications and systems management.
Orion Hindawi
(Executive Chairman)Before co-founding Tanium with their father, David, Orion worked as the VP of Technology for BigFix, the systems management tool founded by their father. Previously served as CEO for Tanium.
Dan Streetman
(CEO & Board Member)Previously served as CEO for both Allvue Systems and TIBCO. Experience as EVP of Worldwide Sales & Marketing for BMC Software and as SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels for Salesforce.
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