Accounting - Team Lead

Why this role 

We’re an AI-first team building intelligent, automated, and insight-rich finance processes. You’ll pair your accounting expertise with modern tools to accelerate the close, raise quality and fundamentally rethink how accounting gets done – not just optimize the status quo.

What you’ll do   

• Own and govern day-to-day general ledger operations and deliver accurate, on-time closes, partnering with FP&A and cross-functional teams
• Lead, coach and mentor a high-performing accounting team, owning onboarding, ongoing training, and performance development to support both individual growth and team objectives
• Review Balance Sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and financial statements with a focus on automation, consistency, and audit readiness
• Assist in statutory audits and filings across international entities, ensuring compliance with local regulations and deadlines
• Oversee international indirect tax filings; collaborate closely with our tax team on statutory compliance and returns outside the US and Canada
• Build strong, trust-based relationships across the business; become the go-to partner for operations, tax, and FP&A  
• Drive process improvement: simplify, standardize, and automate close activities to increase accuracy, efficiency, and speed
• Support acquisition integrations, aligning new entities to Diligent’s accounting policies, controls, and close cadence  
• Champion an AI-first and automation led mindset within the team; use agents and automation to streamline reconciliations, variance analysis, recurring journals, audit support packages, documentation drafts, and GL anomaly detection
• Act as the human in the loop for bot-generated outputs: reviewing, approving and continuously improving what the automation produces 
• Set standards for data-driven decision making; leverage ERP analytics and spreadsheets to build self-serve reports and surface insights; iterate on dashboards and close checklists to continuously improve the close 

 Required Experience/Skills 

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Progressive experience in accounting is required, along with 3+ years of people management experience
• Solid experience leading or supervising accounting operations, including month-end close and general ledger ownership
• Strong technical accounting foundation, with hands-on expertise in reconciliations and variance analysis
• Effective people leadership and communication skills to lead a team, prioritize workloads, set goals, and collaborate cross‑functionally with finance and business partners
• Hands-on, energetic, organized, and adaptable; able to prioritize projects, multitask, work independently, and simplify/automate processes for efficiency
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, high attention to detail, and the ability to deliver accurate, timely outputs under tight deadlines
• Experience in a global finance function of a multi-location, multinational corporation — SaaS or technology sector background a strong advantage
• Mindset for automation and continuous improvement; proficient with spreadsheets and data tools, and eager to pilot AI-assisted workflows to raise the bar on what Finance can deliver Working knowledge of Netsuite or a similar ERP product