Salesforce

Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting

Salesforce$75K — $95K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BA in Accounting or equivalent relevant experience required
  • 3+ years of general accounting experience, preferably in high tech
  • Strong Excel skills, especially with Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP
  • Proficient in internal controls and SOX compliance
  • Excellent organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to meet critical business deadlines
  • Strong time management and ownership skills

Responsibilities

  • Execute monthly accounting close procedures, including journal entries and reconciliations
  • Prepare consolidated P&L and Balance Sheet fluctuation analyses
  • Provide financial analysis of results to management
  • Maintain compliance with SOX through internal control procedures
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders on accounting policies
  • Identify and implement process improvements and automation solutions
  • Manage ad-hoc projects as required

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model, requiring office attendance 3 days a week
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Finance

Job Details

The Experience

As a Senior Accountant in the Global Accounting group, you will play a central role in accounting operations within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Salesforce is looking for candidates with experience recording month-end close journal entries, evaluating transactions under US GAAP, executing controls, implementing process improvements, and preparing schedules to support financial reporting and the external audit. This role is primarily focused on, but not limited to, topics concerning compensation & benefits accounting.

Exceptional candidates will be critical thinkers who take the initiative to problem solve and who welcome challenging projects and evolving priorities.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

  • Execute monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables (journal entries, reconciliations, reports)

  • Prepare consolidated P&L and Balance Sheet fluctuation analyses for management reporting

  • Provide analysis of financial results to management (trends, performance metrics, benchmarks)

  • Perform internal control procedures and maintain compliance with SOX

  • Partner with internal and external business partners (domestic and international) to ensure compliance with accounting policies, procedures, and controls

  • Drive to continuously create efficiencies by identifying and implementing process improvements, automation, and AI tools

  • Ad-hoc projects as necessary

You're Our Person If...

  • BA in Accounting Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the Core Competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

  • 3+ years of overall general accounting experience; high tech industry & public accounting experience a plus

  • Strong Excel skills (e.g. Pivot Table & VLOOKUP experience) and ability to work with large volumes of transactional data

  • Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail

  • Strong understanding of internal controls and SOX compliance

  • Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills

  • Ability and willingness to meet critical business deadlines

  • Strong time management, organizational, and ownership skills

Even Better If...

  • CPA preferred

  • Experience with Workday Financials or other large ERP

  • Experience with Tableau

  • Experience with AI tools such as Gemini, Slackbot, and Claude

  • Accounting experience in a publicly traded company

  • Quick learner, ability to identify issues and resolve problems

This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week.

About Salesforce

ExactTarget is a provider of on-demand email marketing software solutions. Their suite of on-demand one-to-one marketing applications enables clients to send business-critical and event-triggered communications to increase sales, optimize marketing investments, and strengthen customer relationships. They offer four editions of their on-demand software application along with integrated solutions such as ExactTarget for AppExchange and ExactTarget for [Microsoft](/organization/Microsoft) Dynamics CRM.

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