Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting

The role

This senior role oversees parts of Palantir's Corporate Accounting team and leads improvements to quality and processes across the Accounting & Finance organization. You will support senior accounting leadership, work with cross-functional teams, and build technology-enabled process improvements.

What you will do

• Support senior leadership by ensuring high-quality work produced by the team and supporting one-off projects and initiatives
• Improve the overall quality and speed of accounting work-product delivery
• Build and leverage cross-functional relationships across the company to deliver greater value to Finance and other internal teams
• Exercise sound judgement and document accounting conclusions in reconciliations and technical memos in accordance with current policies and guidance
• Communicate and present complex topics to leadership in an accessible format while retaining the ability to work at a detailed level
• Identify, design, and implement technology-enabled process improvements to automate workflows, improve data quality, strengthen controls and free the team for higher-value work

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience
• At least 4+ years of experience at a large international public accounting firm
• Resourcefulness and the ability to solve problems, including non-traditional or undefined problems, creatively and analytically
• Ability to calibrate a room of peers and stakeholders, achieve alignment, and pull levers to bring greater value to Accounting and other internal teams
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Sound judgment and composure in high-pressure situations, and ability to ground decisions in data
• Discretion and integrity in all interactions
• Significant experience with accounting and finance systems, implementations, enhancements, and use of technology to scale the function
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills; able to maintain accuracy and multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Nice to have

• CPA or equivalent certification
• Experience partnering with international functions and teams

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, with eligible dependents, and voluntary life insurance
• Automatic basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take-what-you-need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year
• Leave of absence program, including military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment or share financial information during the interview process

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. The company accepts applications on an ongoing basis.