[Hiring] Accounting Manager @Affirm

Role Description

Affirm is looking for an experienced Accounting Manager to support and manage our international accounting operations, with a focus on statutory accounting, statutory audits, financial statement preparation, local compliance requirements, transfer pricing, and monthly close activities.

In this role, you will help ensure Affirm’s international entities are supported by accurate books and records, timely close execution, audit-ready documentation, and compliant local reporting. You will coordinate closely with internal teams and external auditors, accounting firms, tax advisors, and statutory service providers.

You will be expected to deliver reliable, high-quality results, communicate clearly, and improve processes that make statutory accounting, audit support, and transfer pricing activities more scalable over time.

What you’ll do

• Manage statutory accounting and monthly close activities for international entities, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, variance analysis, and close checklist completion.
• Coordinate with external accounting, payroll, tax, statutory, and audit providers to ensure accurate local books, timely deliverables, and compliance with local requirements.
• Lead statutory audit planning and execution, including auditor onboarding, timelines, status tracking, request management, issue resolution, and stakeholder coordination.
• Prepare and review statutory financial statements, disclosures, footnotes, supporting schedules, and tie-outs to trial balances, reconciliations, and audit evidence.
• Own PBC coordination and audit testing support by gathering, validating, reviewing, and submitting accurate and complete audit documentation.
• Partner with various teams on local accounting requirements, statutory adjustments, and reporting matters.
• Manage audit completion and filing activities, including open item resolution, final approvals, signed documents, filing coordination, and completed audit file retention.
• Own or support transfer pricing calculations, intercompany invoicing, related journal entries, reconciliations, settlements, and cross-functional alignment.
• Review trial balances, general ledger activity, reconciliations, and financial statement variances to identify risks, unusual items, required adjustments, and recurring issues.
• Strengthen process improvements and controls across statutory accounting and audit workflows.
• Identify control gaps, process inefficiencies, and documentation weaknesses; partner with stakeholders to implement scalable solutions.
• Use systems and tools such as NetSuite, Blackline, Excel, Workday, and AI-enabled workflows to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

Qualifications

• CPA professional accounting designation; or 6+ years of relevant professional accounting experience with a bachelor’s degree in business or finance.
• Public accounting experience preferred, especially audit experience with multinational or public company clients.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, statutory accounting, financial statement preparation, account reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close.
• Experience supporting or managing statutory audits, including PBC coordination, audit testing, financial statement review, audit completion, and filing.
• Experience working with international entities, local accounting requirements, statutory reporting, and external service providers.
• Experience with transfer pricing calculations, intercompany invoicing, intercompany reconciliations, and cross-border accounting activity.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple audits, deadlines, entities, and stakeholders at once.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce accurate, complete, audit-ready work under tight timelines.
• Ability to partner effectively with various teams and external auditors.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills, including lookups, conditional formulas, pivot tables, large dataset analysis, and financial statement support.
• Experience with accounting systems and close management tools; NetSuite and Blackline experience preferred.
• Strong ownership mindset and desire to improve processes.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment with competing priorities.

Benefits

• Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.
• Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
• Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.
• Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.

Company Description

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work.