About the roleThis role blends financial transformation, close management, and targeted hands-on accounting within Zillow's Close and Consolidations team. The primary focus is advancing close and consolidation initiatives beyond recurring accounting activities; taking ownership of programs, leading projects, and driving improvements that enhance efficiency, reduce manual effort, and strengthen scalability.
Alongside this, you'll act as an operational partner in running the close: owning close communication, facilitation, and the artifacts and frameworks that keep the cycle on track across the accounting organization.
A focused set of discrete, close responsibilities, such as expense accruals and intercompany settlements, rounds out the role. These keep you close to the details of the process while preserving the capacity needed for the transformation agenda.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in balancing execution with strategic thinking, can manage multiple priorities independently, and is eager to influence how our accounting processes scale with the business.
In this role, you will:
Close Management & Financial Transformation- Co-lead close optimization and efficiency initiatives, identify manual processes, build roadmaps, and drive improvements that reduce manual effort and strengthen scalability across the accounting organization.
- Own close communications, facilitation, and tracking, maintaining the operational rhythm of the close cycle.
- Overhaul and maintain the artifacts, templates, and frameworks used to coordinate close activity across the accounting org.
- Lead recurring cross-team accounting programs, such as close management and consolidation, driving standardization and coordination across teams.
- Provide oversight of the intercompany program; partner with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and Compliance to confirm that shared services and transfer pricing agreements are operating as intended, and flag issues that need to be addressed.
- Represent accounting in Zillow Group-wide strategic projects such as M&A integrations, new entity formation, and reorganizations, and project-manage the execution of related activities across the accounting organization.
- Develop and enhance operational policies and internal control frameworks to ensure SOX compliance.
- Deliver financial analysis and develop metrics that provide insight into close processes, supporting efforts to drive optimization, standardization, and scalability.
Discrete Close Ownership- Own the accounting for a focused set of close areas, including expense accruals, ensuring that related journal entries and reconciliations are accurate and well supported.
- Act as a reviewer of intercompany activity across a defined subset of entities operating under shared service and transfer pricing agreements, ensuring settlements are recorded accurately and in accordance with those agreements.
- Author or review monthly fluctuation analyses and month-end close documentation for owned areas.
This role has been categorized as a Remote position. "Remote" employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.
In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $103,200.00 - $164,800.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.
In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.
Who you are- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally in a large public company environment; Bachelor's in Accounting or Finance required, CPA preferred.
- Strong US GAAP foundation, with experience in intercompany accounting, multi-entity consolidation, and exposure to international subsidiaries and transfer-pricing processes preferred.
- Skilled at preparing and reviewing journal entries and reconciliations with a critical, analytical approach.
- Demonstrated ability to lead or support cross-functional projects and programs, balancing execution with strategic priorities.
- Process improvement and automation orientation, not just executing, but questioning and improving how things are done, with a track record of scalable solutions.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, comfortable presenting to leadership and driving cross-functional alignment across Finance, Tax, FP&A, Legal, and Technology teams without direct authority.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; thrives managing competing priorities in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and building structure where none yet exists.
- Advanced Excel skills required; experience with Workday Financials or another large ERP and similar data tools preferred.
