Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance

About this role

Lead Thunderbird’s finance function as its most senior finance professional, overseeing accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations. This hands-on leadership role combines financial judgment and team development with building the controls, systems, and reporting needed to support the organization’s growth across multiple revenue models and international operations.

About the company

Mozilla builds open-source products and technologies, including Firefox, that prioritize privacy, security, and an open internet.

What you'll do

• Lead 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 revenue recognition for donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and other revenue streams.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and management reporting.
• Oversee tax, audits, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and external advisers.
• Evaluate the financial and operational implications of new jurisdictions or entities, and establish controls for partner-led commercial arrangements.
• Oversee payroll financial controls, cash-flow planning, banking, investments, and reporting to affiliated organizations.
• Strengthen finance systems, workflows, documentation, reconciliations, and automation; advise leaders on financial risks and decisions.

What we're looking for

• 15+ years of relevant experience across accounting, FP&A, and finance operations.
• Significant controllership experience with U.S. GAAP reporting, close, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments.
• 5+ years of finance or accounting people-management experience.
• Experience improving budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial visualizations for non-finance leaders.
• Experience with subscription, SaaS, digital-product, enterprise, or comparable technology revenue models.
• Experience with partner-led commercial arrangements, including related financial terms, reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue recognition.
• Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST.
• Experience supporting internationally distributed organizations, managing external finance advisers, and overseeing treasury and cash management.

Nice to have

• Experience in a subsidiary, portfolio, federated, or affiliated organizational structure.
• Experience establishing a legal entity or expanding into a new jurisdiction.
• Familiarity with Intacct, Ramp, or comparable finance systems.
• Experience in a mission-driven, open-source, nonprofit-affiliated, or values-oriented organization.

Benefits

• Annual bonus program
• 24 days of PTO per year, plus 9 wellbeing days, birthday leave, and year-end company shutdown
• 401(k) contributions
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Monthly remote-work stipend and quarterly wellbeing stipend
• Annual professional-development stipend