Senior Manager, Technical Accounting

Overview

Glean is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting to lead complex accounting analysis, policy implementation, and controls across finance processes and systems, combining technical accounting judgment with hands-on execution.

What you'll do

• Lead technical accounting assessments and prepare clear, well-supported accounting memos under US GAAP and, where relevant, IFRS.
• Advise on revenue recognition, COGS, commissions, equity and stock-based compensation, investments, financial statements, leases, intercompany transactions, and other complex accounting matters.
• Evaluate new products, contracts, commercial arrangements, investments, and business initiatives for accounting and reporting implications.
• Maintain and improve accounting policies, position papers, documentation standards, and technical accounting playbooks.
• Partner with external auditors and advisors to resolve technical accounting questions and align on conclusions.
• Translate accounting conclusions into practical requirements for close procedures, reconciliations, reporting, systems configuration, and control activities.
• Partner with external consultants to develop and implement process narratives, risk and control matrices (RACMs), control documentation, and testing procedures.
• Lead India IFC readiness, including walkthroughs, risk assessment, control-owner alignment, testing support, deficiency evaluation, and remediation.
• Strengthen business-process and system controls across key accounting areas, working with Finance Systems and IT to embed approvals, access controls, data validations, segregation of duties, and exception reporting.
• Establish sustainable control ownership, monitoring, evidence retention, remediation tracking, and reporting to Finance leadership, using automation and AI where appropriate and auditable.
• Define and execute a phased roadmap for building an in-house Internal Audit and Controls function while retaining consultants for specialist and independent support.
• Serve as a trusted accounting advisor to senior Finance and cross-functional leaders, driving alignment when priorities or interpretations differ.
• Establish clear governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, and accountability for technical accounting and controls initiatives.
• Coach and develop team members, raising the quality of accounting analysis, documentation, control ownership, and execution.
• Communicate risks, decisions, dependencies, and recommendations succinctly to Finance leadership.

What you'll need

• Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Typically 8–12+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, controllership, financial reporting, internal controls, or audit, preferably in a high-growth technology or SaaS environment.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP.
• Experience supporting SOX readiness, IFC, ICFR, or controls-based audits.
• Experience implementing controls in a multi-entity, multi-system environment.
• Experience with accounting policy implementation following new products, acquisitions, investments, or significant commercial changes.
• Practical experience evaluating AI-enabled finance workflows and establishing human-in-the-loop controls.
• Strong technical accounting judgment, written communication, stakeholder-management, prioritization, and execution skills.
• Ability to translate accounting conclusions into scalable, practical, and auditable operational processes.

Nice to have

• Practical exposure to IFRS and multi-entity accounting.
• Big 4 experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Hybrid: 3 days a week in the Bangalore office.