The Opportunity This is an exciting opportunity to lead during a time of transformation, as we automate our close and scale worldwide accounting operations. We're looking for a forward-thinking leader to own the accounting, close, and analytics across worldwide compensation, cloud, generative AI, technology services, and lease accounting! You'll apply strong U.S. GAAP judgment to complex, non-standard arrangements and drive high-impact process improvements and AI-enabled automation. If you build high-performing teams and thrive on solving novel accounting challenges, we'd love to hear from you!
What You'll Do - Lead the accounting operations for cloud, generative AI, and technology service arrangements, applying strong judgment on infrastructure spend, consumption-based contracts, and capitalization.
- Partner with Technical Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, and Cloud Engineering to assess the accounting implications of new arrangements, contracts, and initiatives.
- Operationalize technical accounting conclusions into journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, close procedures, and controls.
- Own the close for worldwide compensation accounts, ensuring accurate accrual, recognition, and reporting of payroll, bonuses, commissions, severance, fringe benefits, and other compensation accruals.
- Oversee compensation balance sheet reconciliations across all entities, keeping accounts audit-ready and resolving payroll-to-GL discrepancies.
- Oversee the accounting for complex compensation transactions, including sales-commission capitalization, performance bonuses, and fringe and facility allocation and forecasting.
- Lead analytics across the compensation portfolio, surfacing trends, drivers, and anomalies, and partnering with HR, Payroll, and FP&A to strengthen forecast accuracy.
- Own lease accounting, including lease reviews, reconciliations, and journal entries using Tririga.
- Own the flux analysis and executive reporting for compensation, cloud, and lease expenses, delivering precise analysis of trends, key drivers, and risks.
- Drive process improvements and automation, including using AI tooling, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of accounting work.
- Mentor and develop a high-performing accounting team, and function as a strategic partner across Technical Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Payroll, and FP&A.
- Support additional accounting areas and initiatives as needed.
What You Need To Succeed - CPA license required, with experience in both public accounting firms and publicly traded multinational companies.
- Strong technical accounting foundation under U.S. GAAP, including compensation, employee benefits, lease accounting and commission capitalization.
- Strong autonomy and accountability, leading complex projects with minimal oversight.
- Communicate with clarity and influence, effectively engaging executive leadership and diverse audiences.
- Champion process improvements and innovation, using AI, automation, and analytics to boost efficiency and scalability.
- Experience with cloud, SaaS, or consumption-based cost accounting and vendor-spend partnership is a plus.
- Experience with ERP systems required, preferably SAP S/4HANA; proficiency in Blackline, Tableau, and Power BI is highly preferable.
Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $107,500 -- $221,350 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In California, the pay range for this position is $152,800 - $221,350
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
