Director of Accounting – Finance

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🕒 January 24

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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The Linux Foundation

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2000

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

Non-profit • Education • Enterprise

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides a neutral, trusted platform for developers and organizations to collaborate on open technology projects and ecosystems. With a diverse array of initiatives, it supports over 900 open source projects and has trained over 3 million developers. The foundation aims to drive the future of open technology by providing tools and expertise to scale community projects across open software, hardware, standards, and data. It also actively works on security, digital trust, and sustainability, contributing significantly to open-source strategies and best practices worldwide. Additionally, The Linux Foundation offers educational resources and research initiatives to further promote open source technology and collaboration.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage the finance and accounting departments, including teams responsible for financial reporting, planning, analysis and compliance • Monitor the monthly financial close process, ensuring all costs incurred are properly recorded; reviewing journal entries and account balance reconciliations; and financial statement preparation • Participate in the ongoing development and establishment of accounting policies and procedures and operational strategies including the review and implementation of process and system changes • Ensure timely filing of all financial statements, reports, and tax filings, including VAT, with internal and external stakeholders • Interact at all levels with budget owners to produce timely, efficient, and accurate month-end close and all internal management and financial reporting • Collaborate with external auditors to ensure successful audit results and compliance • Maintain the chart of accounts to ensure accuracy in the general ledger and financial statements • Analyze the effect of statutory accounting practices to ensure correct application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles • Develop and maintain effective internal controls to safeguard the company’s assets and ensure accuracy in financial reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration from an accredited institution • 10+ years of experience in finance and accounting roles, including 5+ years in a team leadership and management • Proven track record in financial reporting, strategic financial planning, and team management • Experience working in complex, large-scale organizations or companies with multi-department financial structures • Strong knowledge of financial regulations, accounting standards (GAAP), and tax laws • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills • Proficiency in financial software (ERP systems, Excel, and financial modeling) • Ability to think strategically and manage complex financial scenarios • Ability to lead and motivate teams in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment • High level of integrity and transparency in financial reporting and decision-making • A proactive problem-solver with the ability to drive change and process improvements • Must be a dynamic self-starter with demonstrated ability to work independently on special projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• top of the line healthcare plans • unlimited PTO • 100% 401k match up to the IRS-defined limit per year