Senior Manager, Finance & Accounting

Mozilla

. Lead MZLA’s finance function, including accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations.

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $165,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in financial leadership, including accounting, FP&A, tax, and treasury management, with a strong focus on U.S. GAAP compliance and financial reporting. Proven ability to manage and develop finance teams while translating complex financial data into actionable insights for organizational leaders.

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Financial LeadershipU.S. GAAP Financial ReportingBudgeting and ForecastingPeople Management in FinanceFinancial Data Visualization

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Hard Skills

AccountingFinancial Planning and AnalysisRevenue RecognitionInternal ControlsTax ComplianceCash ManagementTreasury ManagementFinancial ReportingBudgetingForecasting

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationProblem-SolvingJudgmentLeadership

Tools & Technologies

Payment PlatformsFinancial SystemsExpense Management ToolsDocumentation Automation

Industry Keywords

SaaS Revenue ModelsDigital Product RevenueIndirect TaxVAT/GST ComplianceMerchant-of-Record Arrangements

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead MZLA’s finance function, including accounting, FP&A, tax, treasury, and finance operations.
Manage and develop the finance team, establishing priorities, responsibilities, review practices, and accountability.
Oversee monthly and annual close, financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting policies, and internal controls.
Oversee accounting and revenue recognition across donations, subscriptions, enterprise arrangements, partnerships, and other revenue streams.
Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, longer-range financial planning, and scenario analysis.
Develop management reporting and visualizations highlighting trends, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions.
Oversee tax, audit, indirect tax, VAT/GST, corporate filings, and external advisers.
Evaluate financial, tax, accounting, and operational implications of new jurisdictions or entities.
Establish financial reporting, reconciliation, and control processes for partner-led commercial arrangements with Enterprise Partnerships and Legal.
Oversee financial reporting to MZLA’s parent organization and affiliated Mozilla organizations.
Own financial oversight of payroll across multiple providers with the People team.
Strengthen finance systems and workflows, including accounting, expense management, payment-platform reconciliation, documentation, and automation.
Oversee cash-flow planning, treasury, banking, and investment activities.
Advise organizational leaders and translate complex financial information into clear recommendations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of relevant professional experience, including progressively responsible roles spanning accounting, financial planning and analysis, and finance operations.
Significant accounting or controllership experience, including responsibility for U.S. GAAP financial reporting, close processes, internal controls, revenue recognition, and complex accounting judgments.
5+ years of people management experience in a finance or accounting environment.
Demonstrated ability to improve budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial data visualization and translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations for non-finance leaders.
Substantive experience with subscription, SaaS, digital-product, enterprise, or comparable technology-based revenue models.
Experience supporting partner-led commercial arrangements, including evaluating financial terms and developing or overseeing related reporting, reconciliation, controls, and revenue-recognition processes.
Working knowledge of merchant-of-record arrangements, payment platforms, indirect tax, and international VAT/GST requirements.
Experience supporting an internationally distributed organization and coordinating financial obligations across multiple jurisdictions.
Proven ability to oversee tax, audit, and other external finance requirements and effectively manage outside advisers.
Experience providing oversight and review of cash management, treasury, banking, and organizational investment activities.
Track record of strengthening financial systems, workflows, documentation, and controls.
Strong judgment and comfort moving between people leadership, detailed financial review, hands-on problem-solving, and organization-level decision support.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Regular working-hour overlap with North American time zones; candidates elsewhere in the United States should maintain substantial overlap.
Permanent work authorization for the country location specified in the posting; no visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote work & schedule flexibility
Company-provided laptop
Annual bonus program
Monthly remote work stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Access to Coursera learning platform
Company all-hands and team gatherings
24 days PTO per year (prorated)
Your birthday
Year-end company shutdown
9 wellbeing days
Public holidays
Other paid leave
Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities
401(k) contributions
Health, dental, & vision insurance
Disability insurance
Life insurance
Employee assistance program
Paid parental leave
Paid sick days