Senior Manager, Accounting

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. is seeking a senior accounting leader to own the worldwide close, compensation, and analytics across cloud, generative AI, and technology services. You will apply U.S. GAAP judgment to complex arrangements, drive automation, and mentor a high-performing team.

You will collaborate with Technical Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and Payroll, ensuring accurate accruals, reconciliations, and executive reporting. California-based role with strategic impact.

Qualifications

• CPA license required with experience in public accounting and multinational firms.
• Strong U.S. GAAP foundation including compensation, benefits, lease accounting and commission capitalization.
• Autonomy to lead complex projects with minimal oversight.
• Clear, influential communication with executive leadership.
• Champion process improvements using AI, automation, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead accounting operations for cloud, AI, and tech service arrangements with capitalization decisions.
• Partner with Technical Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, and Cloud Engineering to assess new contracts.
• Operationalize accounting conclusions into journal entries and close procedures.

Skills

CPA leadership

GAAP expertise

Executive communication

Automation & AI

Cross-functional partnering

Forecasting

Team leadership

Education

CPA license

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Blackline

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to lead during a time of transformation, as we automate our close and scale worldwide accounting operations. We're looking for a forward-thinking leader to own the accounting, close, and analytics across worldwide compensation, cloud, generative AI, technology services, and lease accounting! You'll apply strong U.S. GAAP judgment to complex, non-standard arrangements and drive high-impact process improvements and AI-enabled automation. If you build high-performing teams and thrive on solving novel accounting challenges, we'd love to hear from you!

What You'll Do

• Lead the accounting operations for cloud, generative AI, and technology service arrangements, applying strong judgment on infrastructure spend, consumption-based contracts, and capitalization.
• Partner with Technical Accounting, FP&A, Procurement, and Cloud Engineering to assess the accounting implications of new arrangements, contracts, and initiatives.
• Operationalize technical accounting conclusions into journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, close procedures, and controls.
• Own the close for worldwide compensation accounts, ensuring accurate accrual, recognition, and reporting of payroll, bonuses, commissions, severance, fringe benefits, and other compensation accruals.
• Oversee compensation balance sheet reconciliations across all entities, keeping accounts audit-ready and resolving payroll-to-GL discrepancies.
• Oversee the accounting for complex compensation transactions, including sales-commission capitalization, performance bonuses, and fringe and facility allocation and forecasting.
• Lead analytics across the compensation portfolio, surfacing trends, drivers, and anomalies, and partnering with HR, Payroll, and FP&A to strengthen forecast accuracy.
• Own lease accounting, including lease reviews, reconciliations, and journal entries using Tririga.
• Own the flux analysis and executive reporting for compensation, cloud, and lease expenses, delivering precise analysis of trends, key drivers, and risks.
• Drive process improvements and automation, including using AI tooling, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of accounting work.
• Mentor and develop a high-performing accounting team, and function as a strategic partner across Technical Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Payroll, and FP&A.
• Support additional accounting areas and initiatives as needed.

What You Need To Succeed

• CPA license required, with experience in both public accounting firms and publicly traded multinational companies.
• Strong technical accounting foundation under U.S. GAAP, including compensation, employee benefits, lease accounting and commission capitalization.
• Strong autonomy and accountability, leading complex projects with minimal oversight.
• Communicate with clarity and influence, effectively engaging executive leadership and diverse audiences.
• Champion process improvements and innovation, using AI, automation, and analytics to boost efficiency and scalability.
• Experience with cloud, SaaS, or consumption-based cost accounting and vendor-spend partnership is a plus.
• Experience with ERP systems required, preferably SAP S/4HANA; proficiency in Blackline, Tableau, and Power BI is highly preferable.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

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Expected Pay Range

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $107,500 -- $221,350 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In California, the pay range for this position is $152,800 - $221,350

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices

California

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

Colorado

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.