[Remote] Senior Platform Manager, Data Products, Finance Accounting

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is seeking a Senior Platform Manager to own the finance accounting platform, its roadmap, and its controls. The role leads accounting workflow delivery for new and evolving products and works with Finance, Product, and Engineering to strengthen financial data quality, monitoring, and operational processes.

Responsibilities

• You will be the strategic and operational owner of the finance accounting platform — the single point of accountability for shaping how it evolves to support Airbnb's growing portfolio of product offerings
• You will define and drive the long-term roadmap for the finance accounting platform, ensuring it can scale to support new product lines, geographies, and business models
• You will own prioritization across a high-volume platform funnel — balancing competing requests with clarity and structured decision-making — and continuously identify opportunities to optimize platform performance and reliability
• You will lead that effort end-to-end — from initial accounting impact assessment through solution design, engineering alignment, UAT, release coordination, and production normalization — translating complex product changes into well-designed accounting workflows that record product lifecycle financials to Oracle FAH GL
• You will help define and refine data pipeline monitoring and SOX controls, support month-end close processes, and partner with Finance stakeholders to automate manual operational workflows
• Syncing with a cross-functional Product Manager from the Payments or Hotels team to understand an upcoming product change and assess its downstream accounting implications
• Reviewing a product spec with Data Engineering to align on the implementation approach for a new accounting workflow feeding Oracle FAH
• Running a UAT session with Revenue Controllership and Tax stakeholders to validate that a new product's financial lifecycle is being recorded accurately before it goes to production
• Pulling and analyzing ad hoc data using SQL to support a Finance or FP&A team working through a close question or business case
• Triaging and prioritizing new requests coming into the platform funnel — aligning stakeholders on sequencing and tradeoffs against the broader roadmap
• Reviewing data pipeline monitoring alerts and working with engineering to resolve a control gap before it impacts month-end close
• Leading a working session with Treasury or Collections to map out an opportunity to automate a high-touch manual process
• Prototyping an AI-assisted workflow to automate a recurring reconciliation, journal, or intake-triage task, and defining the validation and human-review controls around it
• Drafting a platform update for a senior Finance stakeholder that translates a complex technical change into clear business impact

Skills

• CPA, CMA, or equivalent accounting credential
• Big 4 audit or controllership background
• Subject matter expert in accounting principles and ASC 606 revenue recognition, with the ability to apply standards to complex, multi-product digital marketplace environments
• Proven experience implementing end-to-end accounting workflows across record-to-report and order-to-cash cycles, including SOX controls, reporting, and reconciliation
• Hands-on experience supporting high-volume, event-driven transactional workflows (bookings, payments, payouts, refunds, adjustments) on finance platforms in a marketplace or payments environment — ideally at a high-growth technology company
• 6+ years (typically 10+) of experience in platform management, product management, finance systems with a strong business, finance and accounting data focus
• Demonstrated ability to own and manage a complex, multi-stakeholder platform roadmap with a high volume of competing priorities
• Proven track record of driving end-to-end delivery — from design and engineering through testing, release, and production normalization — in cross-functional environments
• Experience operating in Agile and continuous delivery models; able to move with pace without sacrificing rigor or quality
• Actively uses AI tools to accelerate your own work and to automate repetitive finance workflows (journals, reconciliations, close tasks, intake triage), with a clear view of the validation and control implications before release
• Experience working with or alongside Oracle FAH, General Ledger, or equivalent ERP platforms
• Solid SQL skills and proven ability to work with large, complex datasets — including writing performant queries against partitioned tables, aggregating high-cardinality transactional data, and troubleshooting data anomalies at scale
• Familiarity with subledger to General Ledger data flows — understanding how product-level financial events are transformed, aggregated, and posted as journal entries, and how to validate accuracy across that chain
• Working fluency in modern data pipeline concepts (batch vs. streaming, partitioning, warehouse vs. lake) sufficient to engage Data Engineering on design tradeoffs; you don't need to build pipelines, but you need to reason about them
• Familiarity with data pipeline architecture and monitoring controls — including SLA management, data quality checks, alerting frameworks, and reconciliation workflows that ensure financial data integrity across the close cycle
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to modulate depth and style based on audience — from engineering spec reviews to * Finance leadership briefings
• Strong influencing skills and high EQ; proven ability to drive alignment across diverse, senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Detail-oriented and highly analytical; comfortable structuring ambiguous problems and driving to clear outcomes
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and modern collaboration tools
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, or a related technical field
• CPA, CMA, or equivalent accounting credential strongly preferred
• Big 4 audit or controllership background a plus

Benefits

• May also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits
• US - Remote Eligible; may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager

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