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About the Role
Scale is seeking a Head of Corporate Accounting to lead its global Corporate Accounting function, reporting to the Global Controller. This role is crucial for optimizing the month-end close process, reducing inefficiencies and risk, and scaling processes, controls, and systems to support company growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead the month-end close across all entities, ensuring timely and accurate financial results in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
- Manage and develop the GL, Cost, Revenue, and International Accounting leads and their teams, setting clear priorities and fostering a culture of ownership, accuracy, and continuous improvement.
- Manage the company’s day-to-day treasury operations, including daily cash positioning and monitoring, bank account administration and banking relationships, intercompany funding and cash movements.
- Own key internal policies related to corporate accounting (fixed assets, prepaid expenses, accrued liabilities, capitalized internal-use software, etc.) and maintain an effective controls environment.
- Oversee the review of journal entries, account reconciliations, and flux analyses, and maintain the general ledger in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
- Identify, prioritize, and lead process improvement and automation initiatives to shorten and de-risk the close, leveraging NetSuite, AI-enabled close tools, agentic workstreams, and internal systems.
- Collaborate with Technical Accounting, Finance, and Tax to implement and operationalize new technical accounting guidance and new business activities.
- Serve as a key point of contact for external auditors, leading corporate accounting deliverables for the annual audit.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive accounting experience across public accounting and corporate accounting leadership roles.
- Big 4 experience preferred.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Strong experience with NetSuite.
- Deep experience with multi-entity international subsidiaries, intercompany accounting, and global consolidation.
- Expert knowledge of U.S. GAAP and full-cycle month-end close processes.
- 5+ years of people leadership experience, with a demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities within deadlines.
- Proven track record of leading process improvement projects end to end with measurable results.
- Ability to challenge the status quo, influence change, and streamline processes and operations.
Skills
- NetSuite
- U.S. GAAP
- Full-cycle month-end close processes
- People leadership
- Process improvement
- Automation
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years
- 5+ years of people leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license
Salary/Compensations
- $180,800—$226,000 USD
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Commuter stipend (potential)
About the Company
- At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
- Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact.
- We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
- We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
- We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
- We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.