Director, Accounting

<strong>Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.<br><br></strong>Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.<br><br><strong>About The Accounting Team<br><br></strong>The Accounting team partners across the business to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and transparency of our financial reporting. We play a critical role in capturing and recording company activity in real time, while maintaining strong controls and high standards, and providing financial insights to inform strategic decisions. Beyond compliance, we enable innovation by building scalable processes that support growth and evolving business models.<br><br><strong>About The Role<br><br></strong>As Director, Accounting, you will lead a team of 10 across the United States and the Philippines, overseeing General Accounting, Revenue Accounting, and Accounts Payable. You will partner closely with Finance, Procurement, Payroll, Legal, Tax, Product, and Engineering to ensure accurate reporting and scalable financial operations across the business.<br><br>You and your team will build deep expertise in our products and revenue models, serving as the company’s accounting authority and guiding teams through complex and evolving transactions. You will play a key role in strengthening our processes and controls as we prepare for public-company readiness, helping scale the accounting function to support continued growth. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a high-growth company while building and shaping a best-in-class accounting organization.<br><br><strong>What You'll Do<br><br></strong><ul><li>Set and lead the multi-year strategy for Accounting, building a scalable operating model that supports company growth and public-company readiness.</li><li>Build and lead a high-performing team, developing managers, evolving org design, and strengthening leadership bench strength. Set performance expectations and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.</li><li>Own the accuracy and timeliness of close processes, and other recurring and non-recurring accounting and A/P processes, continuously improving quality and performance metrics.</li><li>Identify opportunities to drive efficiency through streamlining processes or automating via accounting systems and workflows, particularly through use of AI.</li><li>Drive public-company readiness, strengthening internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit preparedness.</li><li>Partner on strategic initiatives, ensuring new products, revenue models, and partnerships are structured and operationalized in a scalable, compliant way.<br><br></li></ul><strong>In order to be successful, you must bring<br><br></strong><ul><li>10 to 15+ years of experience, preferably including public accounting firm and publicly traded-company experience.</li><li>Experience leading teams, and preferably distributed and international teams, with a track record of building scalable, high-performing organizations.</li><li>Strong operational accounting experience, and driving process improvements including systems selection and implementation, and preferably a passion for AI and experience with Netsuite.</li><li>Strong understanding of internal controls, and SOX requirements.</li><li>US GAAP technical accounting fluency, and preferably a CPA.</li><li>Excellent communication (written and verbal), and passion for cross functional influencing.</li><li>A balance of operational rigor and strategic thinking, with the ability to scale processes for long-term success.<br><br></li></ul><strong>Expected salary ranges<br><br></strong><ul><li>For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia, the expected salary range for the role is currently $183,600.00 - $237,600.00.<br><br></li></ul>Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.<br><br>Note: Thumbtack uses AI tools to support our resume screening process. However, our Recruiting team’s expertise and judgment guide hiring decisions<br><br>Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.<br><br>Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: recruitingops@thumbtack.com.<br><br>If you are a California resident, please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtack’s Privacy policy available at https://www.thumbtack.com/privacy/.<br><br>We put as much craftsmanship into candidate safety as we do into the hiring experience itself. While scammers may try to impersonate our team, we’ll never ask you for money, banking info, or SSNs during hiring. Check out our blueprint on how to spot the fakes.<br><br>

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