Accounting Manager

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!
Base Salary Range: $127,000- 166,000 USD per year
We are seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to join X's Record to Report ("R2R") GL and Technical Accounting team on-site in San Francisco. This candidate will play a critical role in overseeing financial operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance with GAAP and timely reporting.
Who you are:
The ideal candidate is someone who is inquisitive, motivated, organized, detail oriented, and analytical. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that challenges the status quo. You have a strong working knowledge of accounting processes end to end as well as experience with complex accounting transactions such as revenue recognition, leases, stock-based compensation, acquisitions, and debt and equity transactions.
You'll make our processes more efficient and scalable, work to ensure the highest levels of quality are maintained in our day to day operations, and proactively minimize operational risk. Externally, you will collaborate with our business process outsourcing partners and internally, you will collaborate across the multiple teams within Finance as well as other key stakeholders in the business.
What You'll Do

• Oversee the general ledger accounting, ensuring proper recording and classification of transactions, including:
  
  • Preparation and/or review of journal entries, account reconciliations, fluctuation analyses
  • Assist with quarter-end close reporting, including the preparation and/or review of financial statement footnote disclosures
• Partner and collaborate with the Controller's organization as well as cross-functionally with key business stakeholders including FP&A, Legal, Sourcing, Treasury, Revenue Operations
• Perform technical research on accounting issues and provide accounting consultation advice to business partners
• Draft accounting memos and liaise with senior management and external auditors
• Maintain and/or prepare accounting policies and assist with the operationalization of these policies
• Manage shared service accounting staff located internationally, providing guidance and support in their daily activities
• Maintain robust internal control processes and business practices
• Recommend improvements to the efficiency and scalability of accounting processes and timeliness of results

Minimum Qualifications

• Working technical knowledge of US GAAP, including experience with ASC 606, ASC 842, ASC 718, and ASC 805
• 6+ years of combined accounting experience, with at least 3+ years of public accounting experience with a Big 4 accounting firm
• Active CPA license
• Demonstrated ability dealing with complex transactions
• Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills
• Experience executing in a dynamic, high speed and demanding environment by demonstrating organizational, interpersonal, communication, problem-solving and prioritization skills
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines
• Experience working in a cross-functional global environment and building lasting business relationships
• Experience thinking strategically and connecting the end-to-end process to the strategy of the business
• Experience driving change and improving the end-to-end processes with a proven track record in business process re-engineering and systems analysis

If you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth tech environment and relish the opportunity to collaborate with passionate, driven over-achievers, your career with us here at X will be both exhilarating and fulfilling!