Director of Accounting

About this role

About Centific Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster.

Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets. About Job Director of Accounting Finance & Accounting | San Francisco Bay Area, CA or Redmond, WA 

The Opportunity Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Accounting owns the accounting organization end to end: the global close, technical accounting and U.S. GAAP policy, internal controls, and audit. You will act as the company's de facto Controller — the final word on how transactions are recorded and how the numbers are defended. This role suits a candidate who trained at a large public accounting firm, then moved in-house and grew through Senior Manager or Director of Accounting roles at technology companies. You have carried a close, survived audits, written the memos, and built the processes that let a finance team close faster with fewer surprises. You are comfortable being both the technical expert and the operator, and you have done it across time zones. Immediate priority: lead the 2026 audit, conducted to PCAOB standards with a Big 4 audit firm, to a clean and on-time opinion. This is the defining deliverable of the role's first year and the primary lens through which candidates will be evaluated.

What You Will Own Close, Reporting & Controllership • Own the global month-, quarter-, and year-end close across all entities, driving cycle-time reduction without sacrificing accuracy.

• Own the consolidated financial statements, intercompany accounting, foreign currency translation, and the supporting reporting package delivered to the CFO, executive team, board, and investors.

• Own the general ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting systems roadmap, including ERP process design and automation of manual work.

• Own accounting operations — revenue, AR/collections, AP, payroll accounting, equity, leases, fixed assets, and treasury accounting.

Technical Accounting & Policy • Serve as the internal authority on U.S. GAAP. Research complex transactions, write the technical position memos, and defend those positions with auditors.

• Own the accounting treatment for revenue recognition (ASC 606) across multi-element, milestone, and usage-based arrangements; leases (ASC 842); stock-based compensation (ASC 718); business combinations (ASC 805); and capitalized software (ASC 350-40).

• Maintain the global accounting policy manual and drive consistent application across all entities and regions.

• Assess and implement new accounting standards, and advise the CFO on the accounting implications of new commercial structures, financings, and M&A activity.

Audit, Controls & Compliance • Lead the 2026 audit to a clean, on-time opinion — conducted to PCAOB standards with a Big 4 audit firm. Own the audit plan, the PBC calendar, sampling and evidence requests, and every technical position put in front of the engagement team.

• Own the Big 4 auditor relationship end to end, including the engagement partner and manager cadence, scoping and materiality discussions, component and international audit coordination, and timely resolution of open items.

• Drive the company to a PCAOB-grade documentation standard: control descriptions, evidence retention, review sign-offs, and audit trails that withstand inspection-level scrutiny.

• Design, document, and operate the internal control environment, building toward SOX-grade controls as the company matures — with no material adjustments or significant deficiencies.

• Partner with Tax, Legal, and external advisors on direct and indirect tax provisions, transfer pricing support, statutory filings, and local regulatory compliance across international jurisdictions.

Process Automation & Systems Modernization • Own the accounting automation agenda: identify manual, spreadsheet-dependent, and error-prone processes and systematically engineer them out.

• Modernize the close using current tooling — close management and task orchestration, automated account reconciliation and transaction matching, AP/expense automation, revenue and billing systems, and reporting and analytics layers.

• Partner directly with Engineering and IT to specify, prioritize, and implement internal tools and integrations that serve Accounting — data pipelines between operational systems and the ERP, automated journal entry feeds, custom reporting, and workflow and approval automation.

• Write clear functional requirements, act as business owner on internal tooling projects, and manage them through UAT, cutover, and adoption.

• Evaluate where AI and intelligent automation can responsibly reduce cycle time and manual review — and apply the control and auditability standards that make those tools defensible to auditors.

• Track and report efficiency outcomes: close-cycle days, manual journal entry volume, reconciliation automation rate, and cost per transaction.

Global Team Leadership • Build, lead

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