Senior Manager, Technical Accounting

Glean Work is hiring a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Glean Work.

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Senior manager of technical accounting to lead complex accounting analysis and controls for an AI platform company.

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About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more. You'll be deeply embedded where people get things done. You'll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company. About the Role: Glean is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting to lead complex accounting analysis, policy implementation, and controls across finance processes and systems. This role combines strong technical accounting judgment with hands-on execution: assessing new and complex transactions, documenting accounting conclusions, translating requirements into scalable processes, and implementing effective controls across the accounting environment. The successful candidate will partner closely with Accounting, Finance Systems, Revenue, FP&A, Tax, Legal, Sales Operations, Procurement, auditors, consultants, and business leaders. This role is well suited to a technically strong accounting leader who can move from accounting conclusion to operational implementation and sustainment. You will:

Lead technical accounting assessments and prepare clear, well-supported accounting memos under US GAAP and, where relevant, IFRS.
Advise on revenue recognition, COGS, commissions, equity and stock-based compensation, investments, financial statements, leases, intercompany transactions, and other complex accounting matters.
Evaluate new products, contracts, commercial arrangements, investments, and business initiatives for accounting and reporting implications.
Maintain and improve accounting policies, position papers, documentation standards, and technical accounting playbooks.
Partner with external auditors and advisors to resolve technical accounting questions and align on conclusions.
Translate accounting conclusions into practical requirements for close procedures, reconciliations, reporting, systems configuration, and control activities.
Partner with external consultants to develop and implement process narratives, risk and control matrices (RACMs), control documentation, and testing procedures.
Lead India IFC readiness, including walkthroughs, risk assessment, control-owner alignment, testing support, deficiency evaluation, and remediation.
Strengthen business-process and system controls across key accounting areas, working with Finance Systems and IT to embed approvals, access controls, data validations, segregation of duties, and exception reporting.
Establish sustainable control ownership, monitoring, evidence retention, remediation tracking, and reporting to Finance leadership, using automation and AI where appropriate and auditable.
Define and execute a phased roadmap for building an in-house Internal Audit and Controls function while retaining consultants for specialist and independent support.
Serve as a trusted accounting advisor to senior Finance and cross-functional leaders, driving alignment when priorities or interpretations differ.
Establish clear governance, decision rights, operating rhythms, and accountability for technical accounting and controls initiatives.
Coach and develop team members, raising the quality of accounting analysis, documentation, control ownership, and execution.
Communicate risks, decisions, dependencies, and recommendations succinctly to Finance leadership.

About you:

Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
Typically 8–12+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, controllership, financial reporting, internal controls, or audit, preferably in a high-growth technology or SaaS environment.
Strong working knowledge of US GAAP; practical exposure to IFRS and multi-entity accounting is preferred.
Big 4 experience is preferred.
Experience supporting SOX readiness, IFC, ICFR, or controls-based audits.
Experience implementing controls in a multi-entity, multi-system environment.
Experience with accounting policy implementation following new products, acquisitions, investments, or significant commercial changes.
Practical experience evaluating AI-enabled finance workflows and establishing human-in-the-loop controls.
Strong technical accounting judgment, written communication, stakeholder-management, prioritization, and execution skills.
Ability to translate accounting conclusions into scalable, practical, and auditable operational processes.

Location:

This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our Bangalore office)

Compensation & Benefits: Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.The final offer will depend on experience, internal equity, and applicable compensation approvals. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits. We’re committed to building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive workplace. We strive to attract and retain people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race. #LI-HYBRID AI-First Mindset at Glean: At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required. Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants: Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or other privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available in our Privacy Policy. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. US applicants and their applications are subject to arbitration of disputes as outlined in our Applicant Arbitration Agreement.
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Senior Manager, Technical Accounting at Glean Work rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Senior Manager, Technical Accounting is an open job at Glean Work.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Bangalore, India.
The job was posted on September 11, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Glean Work. Apply on Glean Work

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