Director, Corporate Accounting

About the role

A Little About Us The Corporate Accounting team partners across Finance, HR, FP&A, Legal, Procurement, and business operations to ensure accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and efficient accounting processes across Yahoo's global business. The team plays a critical role in the monthly and quarterly close while continuously improving how accounting work gets done through automation, scalable processes, and modern financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead accounting and close activities for personnel accounting, including payroll, benefits, long-term incentives, restructuring, and capitalized labor.
• Oversee the annual capitalized labor submission process, ensuring large-volume, high-value project costs are accurately recorded.
• Review internally developed software projects to determine capitalization eligibility and ensure compliance with accounting policies.
• Establish and maintain controls that support the timely, accurate, and complete accounting and reporting of capitalized labor.
• Facilitate quarterly Capital Labor Committee meetings and executive reviews of capitalization requests.
• Apply technical accounting guidance to determine the appropriate accounting treatment for complex transactions.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three accounting professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities in compliance with U.S. GAAP, SOX, and internal accounting policies.
• Review and approve journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and supporting documentation.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations.
• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, HR, Legal, Procurement, Finance Systems, and business stakeholders to support forecasting, resolve accounting matters, and improve financial processes.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors to support audit requests, walkthroughs, and control documentation.
• Drive process optimization by leveraging Oracle Financials, automation, and AI to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability across accounting workflows.
• Identify opportunities to streamline manual processes, strengthen reconciliations, and enhance financial reporting through system enhancements and emerging technologies, including tools such as Gemini, Copilot, and Claude.
• Support broader controllership initiatives and special projects as needed.

Requirements

• Active CPA license required.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership experience within a large public company or similarly complex organization.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SOX compliance, and corporate accounting operations.
• Experience with payroll, benefits, accrual accounting, operating expense accounting, and capitalized labor.
• Experience with fixed assets related to capitalized labor.
• Experience working with Oracle Financials or a comparable enterprise ERP. Oracle Financials experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience leading and developing accounting teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships across Finance and business teams.
• Strong operational mindset with exceptional attention to detail and execution.
• Experience driving process improvements through automation and leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; advanced degree preferred.

Skills

• Strong technical accounting expertise.
• Operational leadership.
• Automation and AI tools.

Benefits

The compensation for this position ranges from $129,210.00 - $281,305.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

Pay

$129,210.00 - $281,305.00/yr

Schedule

Flexible hybrid work options are available. While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!