[Remote] Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thunderbird Technologies Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance to lead its finance function as the organization expands its products, revenue models, and international operations. Reporting to the COO, the role oversees accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations while developing the finance team and providing financial analysis and decision support to organizational leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Thunderbird’s finance function, with overall responsibility for accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and finance operations
• Manage and develop Thunderbird’s finance team, establishing clear priorities, responsibilities, review practices, and accountability
• Oversee monthly and annual close, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls
• Oversee accounting and revenue recognition across donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and other revenue streams
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, longer-range financial planning, and scenario analysis
• Develop clear management reporting and visualizations that highlight important trends, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions
• Oversee tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and related work with external advisers
• Evaluate the financial, tax, accounting, and operational implications of entering new jurisdictions or establishing additional entities
• Work with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal to establish financial reporting, reconciliation, and control processes for partner-led commercial arrangements
• Oversee financial reporting to Thunderbird’s parent organization and affiliated Mozilla organizations
• Own financial oversight of payroll across multiple providers in partnership with the People team
• Document and strengthen finance systems and workflows, including accounting, expense management, payment-platform reconciliation, documentation, and automation
• Oversee cash-flow planning, treasury, banking, and investment activities, working closely with the Senior FP&A Analyst
• Serve as a trusted finance adviser to organizational leaders, translating complex financial information into clear recommendations

Skills

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience, including progressively responsible roles spanning accounting, financial planning and analysis, and finance operations
• Significant accounting or controllership experience, including responsibility for U.S. GAAP financial reporting, close processes, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments
• 5+ years of people management experience in a finance or accounting environment, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, career development, and team development
• Demonstrated ability to improve budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization and translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations for non-finance leaders
• Substantive experience with subscription, SaaS, digital-product, enterprise, or comparable technology-based revenue models
• Experience supporting partner-led commercial arrangements, such as reseller, licensing, wholesale, or revenue-sharing models, including evaluating financial terms and developing or overseeing the related reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue-recognition processes
• Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST requirements
• Experience supporting an internationally distributed organization and coordinating financial obligations across multiple jurisdictions
• Proven ability to oversee tax, audit, and other external finance requirements and effectively manage outside advisers
• Experience providing oversight and review of cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities, including developing recommendations for senior decision-makers
• A track record of strengthening financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls
• Strong judgment and comfort moving between people leadership, detailed financial review, practical hands-on problem-solving, and organization-level decision support
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to identify and explain financial risks, implications, and tradeoffs
• Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting
• Experience working within a subsidiary, portfolio, federated, or similarly affiliated organizational structure, including reporting to a parent organization or shareholder
• Prior work supporting the establishment of a new legal entity or expansion into a new jurisdiction
• Familiarity with Intacct, Ramp, or comparable finance and expense-management systems
• Experience in a mission-driven, open-source, nonprofit-affiliated, or similarly values-oriented organization

Benefits

• Fully remote work & schedule flexibility
• Company-provided laptop
• Annual bonus program
• Monthly remote work stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Access to Coursera learning platform
• Company all-hands and team gatherings
• 24 days PTO per year (prorated)
• Your birthday
• Year-end company shutdown
• 9 wellbeing days
• Public holidays
• Other paid leave
• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities
• 401(k) contributions
• Health, dental, & vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sick days

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