Director, Corporate Accounting

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

A Little About Us

The Corporate Accounting team partners across Finance, HR, FP&A, Legal, Procurement, and business operations to ensure accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and efficient accounting processes across Yahoo's global business. The team plays a critical role in the monthly and quarterly close while continuously improving how accounting work gets done through automation, scalable processes, and modern financial systems.

Position Overview

Yahoo is seeking a collaborative and detail-oriented Director of Corporate Accounting to lead key areas of our global corporate accounting organization, with primary responsibility for personnel accounting, including payroll, benefits, long-term incentives, restructuring, and capitalized labor.

In this role, you'll lead a team of three accounting professionals responsible for critical close activities while partnering closely with stakeholders across Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement, FP&A, and Finance Systems. You'll combine strong technical accounting expertise with operational leadership to ensure accurate financial reporting, maintain a strong control environment, and continuously improve accounting processes through automation, Oracle Financials, and thoughtful adoption of AI.

What You'll Do

• Lead accounting and close activities for personnel accounting, including payroll, benefits, long-term incentives, restructuring, and capitalized labor.

• Oversee the annual capitalized labor submission process, ensuring large-volume, high-value project costs are accurately recorded.

• Review internally developed software projects to determine capitalization eligibility and ensure compliance with accounting policies.

• Establish and maintain controls that support the timely, accurate, and complete accounting and reporting of capitalized labor.

• Facilitate quarterly Capital Labor Committee meetings and executive reviews of capitalization requests.

• Apply technical accounting guidance to determine the appropriate accounting treatment for complex transactions.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three accounting professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.

• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities in compliance with U.S. GAAP, SOX, and internal accounting policies.

• Review and approve journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and supporting documentation.

• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations.

• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, HR, Legal, Procurement, Finance Systems, and business stakeholders to support forecasting, resolve accounting matters, and improve financial processes.

• Collaborate with internal and external auditors to support audit requests, walkthroughs, and control documentation.

• Drive process optimization by leveraging Oracle Financials, automation, and AI to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability across accounting workflows.

• Identify opportunities to streamline manual processes, strengthen reconciliations, and enhance financial reporting through system enhancements and emerging technologies, including tools such as Gemini, Copilot, and Claude.

• Support broader controllership initiatives and special projects as needed.

Requirements

• Active CPA license required.

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership experience within a large public company or similarly complex organization.

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SOX compliance, and corporate accounting operations.

• Experience with payroll, benefits, accrual accounting, operating expense accounting, and capitalized labor.

• Experience with fixed assets related to capitalized labor.

• Experience working with Oracle Financials or a comparable enterprise ERP. Oracle Financials experience is strongly preferred.

• Proven experience leading and developing accounting teams.

• Strong analytical, organiza