Senior Accounting Manager

Company: Notion
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

About Us: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays. About the Role: We’re looking for a highly motivated Senior Accounting Manager to lead and strengthen our global accounting function during the most exciting time in Notion’s history! This high-impact leadership role offers the chance to help shape our global accounting operations, strengthen our financial infrastructure, and lead a talented team through continued scale. You’ll influence core processes, partner cross-functionally with finance and operations leaders, and help prepare the company for the next stage in its growth journey. This role is ideal for a hands-on accounting leader who combines strong technical expertise with operational discipline, team leadership, and a forward-looking mindset. What You'll Achieve: Own key portions of the global month-end close, ensuring accuracy and timeliness across multiple entities and currencies. Lead and enhance consolidations, allocations, and intercompany processes, driving efficiency and automation. Manage and mentor an experienced accounting team, embedding a culture of accountability, collaboration, and development. Partner with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payroll, AP, and other cross-functional partners to ensure smooth close execution and accurate reporting. Support business reporting needs, including recurring management reporting and ad hoc analysis. Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, automate manual processes, and improve system usage Help design and implement robust internal controls and reporting structures that align with best-in-class public-company practices. Skills You'll Need to Bring: 8 years of progressive accounting experience in a high-growth or multinational SaaS company preferred. Mix of Big 4 and corporate accounting experience preferred. Deep knowledge of US GAAP, expense allocations, global consolidations, and intercompany accounting. Familiarity with multi-currency accounting and global entity reporting. Strong systems background (e.g., NetSuite, Zip, Hex, or other tools). Experience supporting public-company readiness initiatives or SOX framework implementation. Excellent communication skills and comfort partnering cross-functionally and with senior leadership Demonstrated people management excellence, with success building and developing high-performing teams. Enthusiasm for process optimization and financial automation at scale in a fast-paced environment. You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results. Nice to Haves: CPA preferred Experience with coding and writing queries We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $230,000 per year. By clicking “Submit Application”, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion’s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy . LI-Onsite

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