Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

The role

The Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance will lead the finance function, including accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations. This person will manage the finance team and provide financial analysis and decision support to leadership.

What you will do

• Lead Thunderbird's finance function including accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations
• Manage and develop the finance team
• Oversee monthly and annual close, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls
• Oversee accounting and revenue recognition across various revenue streams
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, longer-range financial planning, and scenario analysis
• Develop management reporting and visualizations
• Oversee tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, and corporate filings
• Evaluate financial implications of entering new jurisdictions or establishing entities
• Work with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal on partner-led commercial arrangements
• Oversee financial reporting to parent and affiliated organizations

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience in accounting, FP&A, and finance operations
• Significant accounting or controllership experience including U.S. GAAP, close processes, internal controls, and revenue recognition
• 5+ years of people management experience in a finance or accounting environment
• Ability to improve budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and data visualization
• Substantive experience with subscription, SaaS, digital-product, enterprise, or comparable technology-based revenue models
• Experience supporting partner-led commercial arrangements
• Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST requirements
• Experience supporting an internationally distributed organization
• Ability to oversee tax, audit, and manage outside advisers
• Experience providing oversight of cash management, treasury, banking, and investment activities
• Track record of strengthening financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Experience working within a subsidiary, portfolio, federated, or similarly affiliated organizational structure
• 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)
• Birthday off
• Year-end company shutdown
• 9 wellbeing days
• Public holidays

Before you apply

• Must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the specified country location(s)
• Do not provide visa sponsorship
• Candidates who submit generic or unoriginal AI-generated responses may be disqualified

About the company

Thunderbird is a small but growing company of 70+ people distributed across seven countries. It is a nonprofit-owned company behind Thunderbird email and a growing portfolio of products.