Manager, Accounting Operations
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Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers, teams, and businesses around the world. We believe that today’s entrepreneurs are changing the world through software. Our mission is to empower these entrepreneurs by bringing modern app development within reach for any developer, anywhere in the world.
We want people who are passionate, high performing team players who can take new challenges and go the extra mile.
This position reports to the Manager, Accounting and will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks associated with transactional operations within the Controller’s Group. Responsibilities include managing the core accounting functions including Accounts Payable and Payroll. This position will be responsible for business process transformation, systems implementation and developing and maintaining strong internal controls. The successful candidate needs to be capable of managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing and fluid organization.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Document and maintain standard operating procedures for accounts payable and payroll that result in efficiency and scalability.
- Ensure payroll and all disbursements are processed in an accurate, compliant and timely manner.
- Balance the payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies.
- Ensure accuracy of master vendor data in ERP.
- Manage and develop the Accounts Payable team and Payroll team.
- Prepare and/or review and maintain account reconciliations and ensure that account activity and balances are audited for accuracy/reasonableness and reconciled regularly.
- Work closely with Internal Audit to develop, establish, implement and maintain strong internal controls.
- Schedule and assure timely completion of monthly, quarterly and year end deliverables for accounts payable and payroll.
- Drive improvements to internal processes and work collaboratively with human resources and procurement team to increase supplier, client and employee value creation.
- Provide positive support and interaction with co-workers, internal customers and business partners.
- Complete other special analyses and project assignments as directed.
What We’ll Expect From You:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting preferred.
- Proven experience as an accounting operations manager or similar role.
- Capable of managing multiple priorities and a high volume of transactions.
- In-depth knowledge and experience of payroll calculation and processing.
- Strong process improvement execution. Ability to develop and communicate effective ways to measure improvement.
- Ability to manage the day to day activities of professional accounting staff and collaborate with peers, and other financial management as well as external audit personnel.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and define accounting problems, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions. Ability to be exacting, thorough and attentive to detail, while still meeting deadlines required.
- Excellent organizational ability required to handle multiple priorities.
- Strong desire to learn; self-motivated; takes initiative and can work independently.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer service focus.
- Experience and advanced knowledge of various accounting and payroll systems and Microsoft Office, is required.
Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
- We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- We want you to love where you work. We have great office spaces located in the heart of SoHo NYC and Cambridge and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to onboard in-office and take an all-expenses paid trip to our annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Department: Finance
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