Senior Manager, Technical Accounting

About Glean:

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About the Role:

Glean is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting to lead complex accounting analysis, policy implementation, and controls across finance processes and systems. This role combines strong technical accounting judgment with hands-on execution: assessing new and complex transactions, documenting accounting conclusions, translating requirements into scalable processes, and implementing effective controls across the accounting environment. The successful candidate will partner closely with Accounting, Finance Systems, Revenue, FP&A, Tax, Legal, Sales Operations, Procurement, auditors, consultants, and business leaders. This role is well suited to a technically strong accounting leader who can move from accounting conclusion to operational implementation and sustainment.

You will:

Lead technical accounting assessments and prepare clear, well-supported accounting memos under US GAAP and, where relevant, IFRS.

Advise on revenue recognition, COGS, commissions, equity and stock-based compensation, investments, financial statements, leases, intercompany transactions, and other complex accounting matters.

Evaluate new products, contracts, commercial arrangements, investments, and business initiatives for accounting and reporting implications.

Maintain and improve accounting policies, position papers, documentation standards, and technical accounting playbooks.

Partner with external auditors and advisors to resolve technical accounting questions and align on conclusions.

Translate accounting conclusions into practical requirements for close procedures, reconciliations, reporting, systems configuration, and control activities.

Partner with external consultants to develop and implement process narratives, risk and control matrices (RACMs), control documentation, and testing procedures.

Lead India IFC readiness, including walkthroughs, risk asses …