Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motive provides an AI-powered platform that helps organizations manage physical operations, safety, productivity, and profitability. The Senior Manager, Accounting will lead global month-end and quarter-end close activities, general ledger operations, SOX-compliant controls, and accounting areas including treasury, intercompany, software capitalization, and leases while managing and developing a team.
Responsibilities
- Own the monthly and quarterly close across multiple entities, ensuring close activities are completed on time, reconciliations are fully reviewed and supported, and results are recorded in accordance with U.S. GAAP
- Lead end-to-end close execution and review across key GL areas, including cash and treasury, intercompany, software capitalization, leases, and related accruals and reclasses
- Manage and maintain the FloQast close checklist, including assignment of tasks, daily status meetings, issue escalation, and final sign-off
- Review journal entries, including recurring entries, accruals, reclasses, and manual entries, and ensure completeness, accuracy, and proper support in NetSuite
- Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and flux analysis, investigate variances across key accounts, and drive timely resolution of reconciling items
- Oversee bank account reconciliations for operating, collection, sweep, and investment accounts, and partner with Tax and Treasury on internal cash transfers, international entity funding, and global cash monitoring
- Lead software and development cost capitalization, including review of capitalization workbooks, accounting conclusions, and related journal entries
- Lead lease accounting under ASC 842, including review of new and modified lease arrangements, maintenance of lease schedules, and validation of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities
- Own key SOX controls across period-end close, treasury, leases, and software capitalization, ensuring documentation, evidence, and testing support are complete and audit-ready
- Partner with SOX, Internal Audit, and external auditors on control design, walkthroughs, audit testing, remediation activities, and process enhancements
- Identify and drive process improvements and automation within NetSuite, FloQast, and related tools to improve scalability, reduce manual work, and enhance close quality
- Collaborate with FP&A, Tax, Supply Chain, Procurement, AP, Payroll, Revenue Accounting, Engineering, and Legal to align on accounting treatment, operational changes, and close deliverables
- Manage, mentor, and develop a small team of senior accountants and accountants through goal-setting, coaching, workload prioritization, and performance feedback
- Help strengthen close processes for scale, audit readiness, and future public-company readiness
Skills
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years in a manager or senior manager role
- Proven end-to-end ownership of month-end and quarter-end close and broad day-to-day GL operations across multiple entities
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP
- Demonstrated experience operating in a SOX environment, including ownership of key controls and support for internal and external audits
- Experience leading accounting operations in key areas such as cash and treasury, intercompany, fixed assets, software capitalization, leases, and balance sheet reconciliations
- Hands-on experience with a modern ERP, ideally NetSuite, and close management tools such as FloQast
- Experience driving measurable process improvements, including close acceleration, reconciliation quality improvements, or automation of manual workflows
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, assess risk, and deliver clear recommendations
- Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively across finance and non-finance stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in SaaS required
- Flexible working hours if located outside the Pacific Time Zone
- Note: This individual will work a hybrid schedule in-office (2 days a week), if within the Bay Area
- The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology
- A mix of public accounting and industry experience is strongly preferred
- CPA preferred
- Hardware or technology companies strongly preferred
- Experience supporting a public-company or IPO-readiness environment is preferred
- Familiarity with tools such as Coupa, Navan, AuditBoard, and Jira is a plus
Benefits
- For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units.
- Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
- Flexible working hours if located outside the Pacific Time Zone.
- Hybrid schedule in-office (2 days a week), if within the Bay Area.
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