Senior Manager, Accounting

Senior Manager, Accounting
Company: Fastly
Location: San Francisco, CA
Department: Accounting
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.
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Posting Open Date: 11/10/26
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 1/1/26
*Job posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.
Senior Manager, Accounting
Fastly’s Accounting team is looking for an impact-driven Senior Manager, Accounting with a strong public company background to help shape how we close, consolidate, and scale our Controllership organization. Reporting to the Assistant Corporate Controller, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team responsible for orchestrating the consolidated US GAAP month-end close and overseeing critical operational accounting areas—including operating expenses, sales commissions, cash and investments, and network infrastructure assets.
This is a high-impact role for an experienced accounting leader who pairs deep technical and operational acumen with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business insights. The ideal candidate leads with strong operational instincts and brings a proven track record in close orchestration, team mentorship, workflow automation, and cross-functional partnership across a global organization.
What You'll Do:
Leadership & Team Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of accounting professionals, setting clear operational priorities, balancing close workloads, and fostering professional growth.
Close Management: Direct the end-to-end monthly and quarterly close cadence for Fastly’s primary consolidated US GAAP reporting—governing the close calendar, checklists, recurring allocations, journal entry workflows in compliance with SOX and internal accounting policies.
Network Infrastructure & Fixed Assets Governance: Provide strategic oversight for global network hardware and capital assets—to govern capitalization thresholds, multi-location CIP-to-in-service timing, and ASC 360 impairment/disposal evaluations alongside our Global Network Infrastructure and FP&A leaders.
Operating Expenses & FP&A Alignment: Direct end-to-end OpEx accounting workflows—partnering closely with FP&A and business leaders to evaluate spend trends, validate complex vendor accruals, anticipate variance drivers, and deliver complete, accurate monthly reporting.
Commissions Accounting: Supervise the accounting, policy application, and monthly amortization models for deferred contract acquisition costs in close coordination with the Commissions team and FP&A.
Cash, Investments & Treasury Accounting: Direct timely and accurate domestic and global operating cash reconciliations and corporate investment portfolio accounting (ASC 320 / ASC 820), verifying valuation accuracy, interest accruals, and balance sheet classifications.
Balance Sheet Governance & Executive Flux Analysis: Safeguard general ledger integrity and chart of accounts hygiene; review complex reconciliations and deliver executive-ready balance sheet and P&L flux commentaries that effectively articulate core business drivers to leadership.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to Global Network Infrastructure, FP&A and other business leaders—aligning emerging commercial initiatives with US GAAP standards and supporting key strategic financial decisions.
Audit Readiness & SOX Compliance: Lead coordination with internal and external audit teams, maintaining an audit-ready posture, championing internal control design, and ensuring timely resolution of technical inquiries.
Process & Systems Optimization: Champion close acceleration and scalability by identifying automation opportunities, refining NetSuite workflows, and adopting modern controllership tools to eliminate manual spreadsheet dependencies.
What We're Looking For:
Experience: 8–10+ years of progressive accounting experience in public accounting and/or high-growth public technology companies, including 3+ years of direct people management.
Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; active CPA license preferred.
Close Leadership & Systems Acumen: Proven experience managing complex multi-entity closes and workflow automation within NetSuite ERP (or equivalent tier-one ERP systems).
Cross-Functional Influence: Demonstrated track record building collaborative, high-trust partnerships with Supply Chain, Infrastructure Engineering, FP&A, and executive stakeholders.
Technical Rigor: Deep working knowledge of US GAAP and SOX internal controls, with demonstrated strength across ASC 340-40, ASC 360, ASC 320/820, and operational expense accrual governance.
Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex accounting matters, variance analyses, and operational trade-offs into crisp, decision-ready insights for senior leadership.
Growth & Scaling Mindset: A proactive builder who thrives in dynamic environments, with a passion for designing scalable processes and mentoring team members.
We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:
Practical experience identifying and deploying automated workflows or AI tools that have accelerated close velocity and eliminated manual review.
Hands-on leadership overseeing high-volume network infrastructure and hardware assets using NetSuite’s Fixed Assets Management (FAM) module.
Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth technology company
Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
The preferred location for this position is San Francisco Bay Area, CA .
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary: 4
The estimated salary range for this position is $167,790 - $201,348.00.
Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (incl