Senior Manager, Accounting

Who we are:Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.Visit gomotive.com to learn more.About the Role:The Senior Manager, Accounting is a key leader on the Corporate Accounting team responsible for driving an accurate and timely global month-end and quarter-end close, leading broad day-to-day general ledger operations across multiple entities, and maintaining a strong SOX-compliant control environment. This role oversees key areas such as treasury and cash, intercompany, capitalized software, leases, and core close activities, while partnering cross-functionally to support a rapidly scaling global organization. This position reports to the Director, Accounting.What You'll Do:Own the monthly and quarterly close across multiple entities, ensuring close activities are completed on time, reconciliations are fully reviewed and supported, and results are recorded in accordance with U.S. GAAPLead end-to-end close execution and review across key GL areas, including cash and treasury, intercompany, software capitalization, leases, and related accruals and reclassesManage and maintain the FloQast close checklist, including assignment of tasks, daily status meetings, issue escalation, and final sign-offReview journal entries, including recurring entries, accruals, reclasses, and manual entries, and ensure completeness, accuracy, and proper support in NetSuiteOversee balance sheet reconciliations and flux analysis, investigate variances across key accounts, and drive timely resolution of reconciling itemsOversee bank account reconciliations for operating, collection, sweep, and investment accounts, and partner with Tax and Treasury on internal cash transfers, international entity funding, and global cash monitoringLead software and development cost capitalization, including review of capitalization workbooks, accounting conclusions, and related journal entriesLead lease accounting under ASC 842, including review of new and modified lease arrangements, maintenance of lease schedules, and validation of right-of-use assets and lease liabilitiesOwn key SOX controls across period-end close, treasury, leases, and software capitalization, ensuring documentation, evidence, and testing support are complete and audit-readyPartner with SOX, Internal Audit, and external auditors on control design, walkthroughs, audit testing, remediation activities, and process enhancementsIdentify and drive process improvements and automation within NetSuite, FloQast, and related tools to improve scalability, reduce manual work, and enhance close qualityCollaborate with FP&A, Tax, Supply Chain, Procurement, AP, Payroll, Revenue Accounting, Engineering, and Legal to align on accounting treatment, operational changes, and close deliverablesManage, mentor, and develop a small team of senior accountants and accountants through goal-setting, coaching, workload prioritization, and performance feedbackHelp strengthen close processes for scale, audit readiness, and future public-company readinessWhat We're Looking For:8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years in a manager or senior manager role; a mix of public accounting and industry experience is strongly preferredProven end-to-end ownership of month-end and quarter-end close and broad day-to-day GL operations across multiple entitiesCPA preferredStrong working knowledge of U.S. GAAPDemonstrated experience operating in a SOX environment, including ownership of key controls and support for internal and external auditsExperience leading accounting operations in key areas such as cash and treasury, intercompany, fixed assets, software capitalization, leases, and balance sheet reconciliationsHands-on experience with a modern ERP, ideally NetSuite, and close management tools such as FloQastExperience driving measurable process improvements, including close acceleration, reconciliation quality improvements, or automation of manual workflowsStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, assess risk, and deliver clear recommendationsExcellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively across finance and non-finance stakeholders in a fast-paced environmentExperience in SaaS, hardware, or technology companies strongly preferredExperience supporting a pu