Senior GL Accountant

About the Role

Amplitude is looking for a Senior GL Accountant to join our lean, high-performing Controllership team. This role is critical to the monthly close process and will own several core accounting areas across cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, accruals, and international tax support. You’ll partner cross-functionally with teams including AP, Payroll, Tax, and Procurement while helping us scale and modernize our accounting operations. 

We’re actively investing in automation and AI-assisted workflows, and we’re looking for someone who enjoys improving processes, solving problems, and helping the team operate smarter as we grow.

As a Senior GL Accountant, you will:

• Own critical components of the month-end close process, including preparing and reviewing journal entries, performing detailed balance sheet reconciliations, investigating variances, and ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and delivered on time
• Manage daily cash operations across multiple banking platforms, including monitoring activity, processing wires, recording transactions, preparing cash journal entries, and supporting monthly cash reporting and reconciliations
• Lead prepaid expense and fixed asset accounting processes end-to-end, including maintaining amortization and depreciation schedules, tracking additions and disposals, reconciling related GL accounts, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies
• Partner closely with AP, Payroll, Tax, Procurement, and other cross-functional stakeholders to resolve discrepancies, improve accounting workflows, strengthen operational processes, and support scalable financial reporting practices
• Support global accounting operations by reconciling international VAT/GST accounts, assisting with corporate tax accruals and sales tax reconciliations, and managing intercompany cost allocations, billing, and settlement activities across multiple entities and currencies

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• You enjoy operating in a fast-paced environment where you can balance attention to detail with strong business judgment
• You’re energized by process improvement, automation, and finding smarter ways to work using AI-assisted tools and workflows
• You proactively identify issues, communicate risks early, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive resolution
• You’re comfortable managing multiple priorities during close while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and accountability
• You bring experience working with modern accounting and finance tools such as Ramp, Navan, ZIP, Avalara, or similar platforms

At a minimum, you need to have:

• 3–5 years of progressive GL accounting experience, ideally within a technology company and/or public accounting environment
• Strong working knowledge of NetSuite in a multi-entity and multi-currency environment
• Experience owning balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close responsibilities with minimal supervision
• Foundational knowledge of accrual accounting principles and exposure to areas such as fixed assets, prepaid expenses, and indirect tax reconciliations
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively across teams

Our values:

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

• Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
• Ownership: We take the initi