Director of Corporate Accounting

Job Description

Director, Corporate Accounting | Yahoo

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Yahoo, offering flexible hybrid work options in the USA. Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally through a portfolio of iconic products, and for advertisers, it provides omnichannel solutions and powerful data. This role is crucial for ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining strong internal controls, and driving efficiency and automation within Yahoo’s global accounting operations. It impacts key corporate accounting processes across expenses, leases, and fixed assets.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Hybrid – USA
• Pay: $129210–$281305 yearly
• Team: Reports to Senior Director, Corporate Accounting; leads a team of 4 accounting professionals.
• Mission: Oversees critical corporate accounting processes, ensures accurate financial reporting, and drives automation across a global business.
• Tech Stack: Oracle Financials, Gemini, Copilot, Claude

What You’ll Actually Do
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4 accounting professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Financial Close Management: Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities in compliance with U.S. GAAP, SOX controls, and internal accounting policies.
• Technical Accounting & Capitalized Labor: Apply technical accounting skills to make decisions and determine appropriate accounting treatment, specifically managing and reviewing large dollar volumes of capitalized labor submissions.
• Process Optimization & Automation: Drive process optimization, automation, and operational improvements, utilizing AI tools to streamline manual accounting processes and enhance financial analysis.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, HR, Legal, Procurement, and business stakeholders to manage expenses, support forecasting activities, and resolve accounting matters.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required, CPA required, with an advanced degree preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including management experience within large public companies or complex organizations, with specific experience in fixed assets related to capitalized labor, payroll, benefits, accrual accounting, and operating expense accounting processes.
• Skills: Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SOX compliance, corporate accounting operations, strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Bonus: Experience with large ERP systems (i.e., Oracle Financials) and process automation initiatives, strong collaborator, operationally focused with attention to detail and execution, and a solutions-oriented mindset.