Technical Accounting Manager

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Senior Technical Accounting Manager to join our Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting team. The ideal candidate will have strong technical accounting and analytical skills and has the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This role will work cross-functionally with teams throughout the organization, within a detail-oriented environment where creative problem-solving is highly valued.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who has excellent core knowledge of US GAAP and SEC rules and is eager to contribute their expertise to a quickly growing company. The ideal candidate will have a full vision of the technical accounting and financial reporting process and will work closely with the team to streamline processes that impact our financial statements.

Your impact

As Senior Technical Accounting Manager, you will work in a fast-paced environment to establish and improve existing processes in technical accounting and financial reporting areas. Key to your success in this role will be a positive attitude, eagerness to learn, lead and drive projects and take ownership, and passion for Grammarly.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and serve as a key subject matter expert in complex accounting topics such as revenue, leases, capitalized software, equity transactions, and financial statement preparation and review. 
• Be responsible for financial reporting and annual financial statements audit with a Big 4 firm.
• Be responsible for equity accounting and stock-based compensation.
• Review and analyze new accounting pronouncements to determine the impact on the company and, when applicable, assist with the documentation and implementation of new standards.
• Build strong relationships with various teams while leading important and complex accounting topics.
• Analyze technical accounting topics/transactions, present key findings to internal stakeholders, and document accounting white papers and calculations as well as journal entries.
• Work on special projects identified by the senior management and prepare accounting memos in support of technical accounting positions as required.
• Be an expert in your areas of responsibility and take end-to-end ownership of all aspects of your projects.

We're looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has 7+ years of experi