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The Accounting team manages the core accounting responsibilities at Twitter.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager for our Accounting team. This position will oversee our accounting operations with an emphasis on accuracy, compliance with US GAAP and SOX requirements, and development of team members.

The ideal candidate is someone who will work independently, drive projects from concept to completion, communicate effectively across teams and enjoy collaborating with people with diverse skills, all while operating in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

You are someone who is inquisitive, detail oriented and analytical. You know your accounting principles and have strong working knowledge of accounting processes end to end.

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.

Every day is a new challenge and you are easily adaptable to shifting priorities while making steady progress on key projects and working to tight deadlines. In addition, you demonstrate a passion for technology and relish the opportunity to learn and apply new technical concepts to your work.

What You'll Do

Operations:

• Perform month-end close processes, including agreement review, account reconciliation review, and posting journal entries.

• Prepare and present our consolidated financial reporting to management and oversee the preparation of our quarterly government surveys.

• Support ad-hoc requests from cross-functional teams and external auditors.

• Document and maintain relevant policies and procedures.

• Design & monitor process controls and oversee testing in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).

• Partner with data owners and data leaders to drive quality control and enhancements of accounting data.

• Prepare materials for quarterly business reviews.

• Manage a team of Accounting Managers.

• Lead, coach, mentor and train the team; take an active interest in their career and development; find ways to continue their growth and development.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO):

• Build strong collaborative working relationships with outsourced teams with a focus on driving efficiencies and improving levels of service.

• Identify opportunities and implement programs to centralize, eliminate, automate or send out activities to BPO partners.

• Assist with the annual budget cycle.

• Assist with establishing & monitoring process-wide global SLAs for BPO teams.

• Coordinate annual updates to Accounting desktop procedures (DTPs).

Business Process Transformation:

• Represent Record To Report ('R2R') in new products and systems implementation, collaborating with cross-functional teams including regional controllers, engineering, cross-functional finance teams, and vendors to design and deliver scalable solutions.

• Participate in driving the global business process transformation roadmap for new initiatives, encompassing process, tools, controls by collaborating across geographies and teams to align on process requirements.

• Participate in key projects and initiatives. Take a data driven approach to recommend solutions to improve new process effectiveness.

• Assist with maintaining and monitoring project deliverables & related documentation.

• Organize & coordinate stakeholder meetings: prepare agendas & presentation materials.

• Assist with developing & launching annual global process & system roadmap for Accounting.

• Recognized accounting qualification (CPA).

• Working knowledge of US GAAP, including the ability to research and apply accounting standards.

• CPA with a minimum of 5 yrs of public accounting experience.

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive responsibilities applying US GAAP standards.

• Experience executing in a dynamic, high speed and demanding environment by demonstrating organizational, interpersonal, communication, problem-solving and prioritization skills.

• Experience with ERP systems is a must.

• Experience working in a cross-functional global environment and building lasting business relationships.

• Experience with automation projects (e.g. RPA, Machine Learning).

• 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.

• Demonstrated experience of data analysis, problem-solving and solutions development.

• Experience with team supervision or people management

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Oracle ERP and EPM.

• Experience of Finance business process transformation.

• Project management skills with the ability to work with minimal guidance and in a team environment.

• 2+ years demonstrable experience with process automation tools (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau, RPA: Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath or similar).

• Knowledge of SQL, reporting and analytics.

• Knowledge of internal controls and compliance requirements.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records