Senior Manager, Accounting

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Sunnyvale, CA
Senior level
Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Senior Manager of Accounting will oversee general accounting functions, manage a GL team, ensure accurate monthly and year-end close procedures, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve systems and processes. This role emphasizes a strong working knowledge of US GAAP and involves hands-on work along with team management.
Summary Generated by Built In

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.

The Role and the Team

We are looking for a Senior Accounting Manager to join our fast-paced, high performing team. This individual will be an integral part of the accounting team in many areas. This role will report to the Director of Accounting and will be responsible for additional projects as needed by the upper management. The ideal candidate will have experience managing and leading groups within accounting. The candidate must have a strong working knowledge of US GAAP with experience in a wide range of GL functions, ERP system, SOX, etc. This is a great opportunity that will allow for career growth as the Company continues to expand!

Job Requirements:

  • Oversee the general accounting functions, including but not limited to general ledger, account reconciliations, payroll accounting, fixed assets, & Inventory.
  • Responsible for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close procedures, i.e., journal entries, account reconciliations
  • Manage and guide the GL team to execute accounting processes and support their professional growth
  • Review balance sheet and income statement fluctuation analysis on a monthly and quarterly basis for management and audit review
  • Collaborate with the accounting team and cross functionally to enhance accounting procedures and systems
  • Maintain a strong internal control environment, updating controls and processes as needed
  • Manage the Fixed Assets and streamline the fixed asset process for efficiency and accuracy
  • Collaborate with the extended finance team to ensure adherence to a timely close and reporting process, timely responses to internal/external audit requests and overall execution of team objectives.
  • Involvement in special projects, system implementations, upgrades, integrations or process improvements, as needed.
  • This role requires hands-on work in addition to reviewing the work of others.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting
  • CPA is a plus
  • Minimum of 10 years of general accounting experience in industry and/or a public accounting firm with a minimum of 5 years of management experience
  • Strong Excel skills required
  • Demonstrate excellent working knowledge of US GAAP
  • Superior organization and verbal/communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with exceptional analytical and prioritization skills
  • Experience with ERP (MS Dynamics D365) and FloQast is a plus

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

#LI-AN2

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 157,650.00 - 231,220.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 129,000.00 - 189,200.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 117,600.00 - 172,480.00 USD

Top Skills

Excel
The Company
Belfast
3,780 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

We provide the most effective cybersecurity and compliance solutions to protect people on every channel including email, the web, the cloud, and social media.

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