Senior Manager, Accounting
- Your strong ethical compass ensures you maintain high standards for accuracy and integrity in close activities and reconciliations.
- You are empathetic and supportive, which helps you build good relationships with your team and cross-functional partners.
- You enjoy meaningful work and can find purpose in ensuring the financial health of the organization, especially in a mission-driven company like MongoDB.
- The structured, repetitive nature of monthly and quarterly close cycles may feel draining to your free-spirited and value-driven approach.
- The role requires assertive leadership, enforcing deadlines and controls, which conflicts with your preference for flexibility and harmony.
MongoDB is seeking a Senior Manager, Accounting to join the Corporate Accounting team within Controllership in Gurugram. This role will lead core corporate accounting activities, global close execution, balance-sheet integrity, reconciliations, accounting operations, and process improvement across MongoDB’s multi-entity environment.
The Senior Manager will partner closely with General Ledger, SEC Reporting, Technical Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Tax, Internal Audit, and external auditors. The role is designed for an accounting leader who can combine strong operational judgment with disciplined execution, clear communication, and a process-improvement mindset.
What you will do
Corporate accounting and global close
- Lead and review corporate accounting activities across the monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles
- Own the quality and timeliness of balance-sheet reconciliations, journal entries, account analyses, flux explanations, and other close deliverables
- Coordinate with global accounting teams to resolve variances, strengthen close procedures, and maintain consistent accounting practices across entities
- Support consolidation activities, intercompany accounting, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, leases, and other corporate accounting areas as assigned
- Partner with SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting to provide accurate close data, schedules, and supporting documentation for external reporting and accounting conclusions
Controls, audit, and process improvement
- Maintain and strengthen accounting controls and support SOX activities, including control execution, evidence quality, process narratives, and remediation
- Serve as a key point of contact for internal and external auditors during walkthroughs, quarterly reviews, annual audits, and requests related to corporate accounting processes
- Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reduce manual effort, and increase automation across close and reconciliation processes
- Help implement scalable accounting policies, procedures, and documentation as MongoDB continues to grow
Leadership and partnership
- Lead, coach, and develop accounting professionals while setting clear expectations for quality, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Coordinate work across global accounting teams and help establish consistent processes across entities and reporting cycles
- Translate accounting issues into clear, practical guidance for Finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Build trusted relationships across the organization and represent Controllership with sound judgment and a service-oriented approach
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant experience in corporate accounting, global close, or a related controllership function
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and corporate accounting processes in a public-company or similarly complex environment
- Experience with multi-entity accounting, consolidations, intercompany activity, balance-sheet reconciliations, and close management
- Experience working in a SOX-controlled environment and partnering with internal and external auditors
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing accounting professionals in a global organization
- Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, operate effectively during close and reporting cycles, and make sound decisions with incomplete information
- Experience with NetSuite, FloQast, Workiva, or similar accounting and reporting systems is preferred
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
Req ID - 3273588968
Best personality fits for this role
Your natural leadership drive and decisiveness make you an excellent fit for leading the corporate accounting team and driving global close execution.
Read the ENTJ career guide →Your strong organizational skills and focus on efficiency make you ideal for leading the global close and ensuring timely, accurate reporting.
Read the ESTJ career guide →Your meticulous attention to detail ensures balance-sheet reconciliations and journal entries are accurate and timely, a core requirement of the role.
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