Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting and Innovation

Sonos; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Matching

Open Time Off

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Discount

Job summary

Sonos seeks a Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting and Innovation to drive AI-enabled automation across consolidations, technical accounting, and external reporting. You will shape scalable processes, build dashboards, and implement controls while partnering with IT, FP&A, Tax, and external auditors.

The role combines deep US GAAP expertise with hands-on scripting and AI tool experience to accelerate the close and improve accuracy in a hybrid Boston-area environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative field is required.
• CPA certification is strongly preferred.
• 6–8 years of progressive accounting experience, with mix of public accounting and corporate industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-assisted and automated workflows across consolidations, close, and reconciliation review processes.
• Identify manual tasks and redesign them using AI tools, scripting, and financial systems integrations.
• Build scalable workpapers, dashboards, and validation checks to improve efficiency and review quality.
• Partner with Finance Systems, Data, and IT to ensure automated solutions are reliable and SOX-compliant.
• Evaluate emerging AI and automation tools and recommend practical applications for Corporate Accounting.

Skills

US GAAP

AML?

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

CPA certification

Tools

Google Apps Script

Python

VBA

Tableau

Power BI

Alteryx

SAP

Job description

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

This role is a hybrid position. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston office locations and should expect to be in office 3-4 days per week.

The Role: Sonos is looking for a Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting and Innovation professional to join the Corporate Accounting team.

This role combines strong corporate accounting expertise — consolidations, technical accounting, and external reporting support — with a hands‑on focus on AI, automation, and scalable process design. As Sonos accounting modernizes from manual, review‑heavy workflows toward AI‑enabled and self‑service processes, this person will be a primary architect of that shift within the Corporate Accounting pillar. The ideal candidate brings solid technical accounting knowledge together with real experience using AI tools, scripting, and workflow automation to reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and speed up the close and reporting cycle. Accounting accuracy and judgment remain the foundation — automation is what frees that judgment to focus on the areas that actually need it.

What You’ll Do

AI, AUTOMATION & FINANCIAL SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS

• Design and implement AI-assisted and automated workflows across consolidations, technical accounting, close, and reconciliation review processes.
• Identify manual or repetitive corporate accounting tasks and redesign them using AI tools, scripting (Google Apps Script, Python), and financial systems integrations.
• Build scalable workpapers, dashboards, exception reporting, and validation checks — including tools that generate preliminary variance commentary for financial statement fluxes — to improve efficiency and review quality.
• Partner with Finance Systems, Data, and IT to ensure automated solutions are reliable, auditable, controlled, and SOX‑compliant.
• Evaluate emerging AI and automation tools and recommend practical applications for Corporate Accounting.
• Ensure AI-generated outputs are validated using professional judgment and technical accounting knowledge before use in close, consolidation, or reporting deliverables.

TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING, AUDIT, & EXTERNAL REPORTING

• Own complex technical accounting areas and related processes, including lease accounting (ASC 842), software capitalization projects (ASC 350‑40), and compensation (ASC 718); building repeatable and well‑documented processes rather than one‑off analysis.
• Support the consolidation process, including foreign exchange revaluations, intercompany eliminations, and complex consolidation workflows, with direct ownership of specialized areas.
• Design and oversee the policy that determines which reconciliations and journal entries require full review versus automated exception‑based sign‑off, retaining final approval authority on higher‑risk areas so review time concentrates on genuine anomalies.
• Continuously improve the quarterly and annual reporting and audit cycle — automating flux analysis and variance commentary across the cash flow, balance sheet, and income statement, as well as audit schedule preparation and tie‑out validation — interacting with external auditors as needed.

CROSS‑FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIP

Serve as a practical technology builder within Corporate Accounting, helping identify where AI, automation, and financial systems investment create the most value. Partner with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Finance Systems/Data, and external auditors on accounting data, process, and system improvements. Maintain detailed process documentation, system documentation, and SOX‑compliant control structures for all newly automated workflows.

What You’ll Need

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative field required.
• CPA certification is strongly preferred.
• 6–8 years of progressive accounting experience, with a mix of public accounting and corporate industry experience.

Special Requirements

• Must possess expertise/knowledge sufficient to adequately perform the duties of the job being offered. Expertise/knowledge may be gained through employment experience or education.
• Required expertise/knowledge includes: Strong knowledge of US GAAP, including technical accounting areas such as ASC 842 (Leases), software capitalization (ASC 350‑40), consolidations, and multi‑entity intercompany structures.
• Demonstrated builder mindset — proven ability to identify manual accounting processes and design scalable, controlled, and repeatable solutions, not just a willingness to use new tools.
• Hands‑on experience with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot), scripting languages (Google Apps Script, Python, VBA), and BI/automation platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx).
• Experience with major enterprise ERPs (e.g., SAP) and consolidation software.
• Ability to translate technical accounting requirements into process, data, and system design requirements.
• Strong project management, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to work cross‑functionally across Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Finance Systems, and external auditors.
• Practical curiosity about emerging AI and automation capabilities, with the judgment to apply them responsibly in a controlled finance environment.

Visa Sponsorship: Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for us in the United States, both now and in the future.

The base pay range for this role based off geographic location is: $102,000 and $126,900. The specific pay offered will depend on the candidate’s geographic location, as well as qualifications and experience. We apply geographic pay differentials based on the cost of labor in the market. Employees in high‑cost locations may be compensated at the upper end of the range, while those in medium or low cost markets may be compensated at the lower end of the range.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well‑being of our employees.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting
• An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure‑based vacation accruals required
• 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually
• Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
• Sonos offers a generous paid leave program for new parents or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, as well as short- and long-term disability for your own medical condition
• Company‑paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance
• Mental health benefits to support your holistic well‑being
• A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!

Sonos is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e‑mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Sonos is a sound experience company. We connect millions of listeners all around the world to the content they want, where and how they want it. Since inventing multiroom wireless audio in 2005, we have continuously innovated the listening experience, designing hardware and software that celebrates sound, empowers our customers, and brings the home to life. Our team is made up of passionate players united by a culture of respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership who want to inspire the world to listen better.

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