Cornerstone OnDemand
Senior Accountant
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $71K - $113K
💻 Finance
🗓️ August 14th, 2025
SaaS
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Cornerstone is hiring a Senior Accountant. The role involves managing accurate and timely financial reporting, general ledger reconciliations, and liaising with internal teams and business leaders to support accounting functions. The Senior Accountant will lead monthly close processes, develop internal accounting procedures, and ensure compliance with financial controls.
Highlights
- Review contracts with partners to determine appropriate accounting treatment for various arrangements.
- Collaborate with sales and partnerships teams to identify new contracts and understand partner agreement economics.
- Build and manage internal processes to ensure accurate and timely financial statements and partner payments.
- Oversee monthly close processes and reconciliations for both internal and external reporting.
- Maintain compliance with internal controls and initiate corrective actions.
- Lead and develop remote accounting team members across different offices.
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience and 4+ years of relevant accounting experience.
- Must have strong leadership, communication skills, and ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Preferred qualifications include CPA designation, experience with business combinations, and knowledge of Oracle Fusion Cloud.
- Compensation range is $70,800 to $113,300 USD base salary plus potential bonuses and comprehensive benefits.
Senior Accountant Full Description
Senior Accountant
United States
We're looking for a
Senior Accountant
This role is Remote, United States
The Senior Accountant is responsible for delivering accurate and timely reporting of balance sheet and income statement line items, for both internal and external stakeholders. This individual will manage key processes including preparing general ledger account reconciliations all the way through completion of supporting schedules for financial statement disclosure. Additionally, the role involves liaising with internal stakeholders and business leaders within the organization.
We are looking for someone who is a self-starter, effective leader, strong communicator, hardworking and able to interact with management and various teams on a daily/regular basis. This candidate must be focused, intelligent, dependable, and able to manage multiple tasks at the same time.
In this role you will...
The Senior Accountant is responsible for delivering accurate and timely reporting of balance sheet and income statement line items, for both internal and external stakeholders. This individual will manage key processes including preparing general ledger account reconciliations all the way through completion of supporting schedules for financial statement disclosure. Additionally, the role involves liaising with internal stakeholders and business leaders within the organization.
We are looking for someone who is a self-starter, effective leader, strong communicator, hardworking and able to interact with management and various teams on a daily/regular basis. This candidate must be focused, intelligent, dependable, and able to manage multiple tasks at the same time.
In this role you will...
- Review contracts with partners to determine proper accounting including referral, reseller, co-selling, and royalty arrangements
- Liaise with internal sales and partnerships teams to identify new contracts and understand economics of agreements with partners
- Build internal processes to ensure statements are issued accurately and timely to partners; coordinate with accounts payable to ensure payments are made timely to partners in accordance with contractual obligations
- Manage the monthly close processes for partners, review monthly close reconciliations to ensure timely and accurate closing of the books for internal and external reporting
- Maintain systems and procedures to comply with internal control requirements; Initiate corrective actions as necessary
- Initiate, improve, and create efficiencies in systems and procedures
- Analyze and synthesize trends in data and information to identify risks and requirements for additional processes and procedures
- Maintain great relationships with business partners and accounting peers to address accounting and reporting needs
- Foster an environment of high-quality work, team collaboration and continuous improvement
- Ability to manage team members remotely between our different offices
- Other accounting related duties, as required
You’ve got what it takes if you have…
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent work experience
- 4+ years of relevant accounting experience
- Proven experience leading a team under pressure to meet deadlinescombined with the ability to communicate the “big picture”
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Exceptional communication skills are required to interact upward and cross-functionally
- Ability to coach and develop staff through close procedures and fostering teamwork
- Consideration for privacy and security obligations
Extra Dose of Awesomeness if you have…
- CPA or equivalent designation
- Experience with business combinations and integrations
- Knowledge of Oracle Fusion Cloud
- Experience with Enterprise SaaS business models
- Interest in understanding how IT systems and workflows are designed
Our Culture:
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Who We Are:
Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.
Total Rewards:
At Cornerstone, we are dedicated to inspiring excellence and pushing boundaries in everything we do. Our compensation strategy is based on three fundamental principles: equitable pay, market-driven research, and skill-based appraisals. As part of our mission to share success and empower individuals to thrive in an ever-changing world, the listed salary range is just one element of Cornerstone’s comprehensive compensation package. This compensation package may also include annual bonuses, short- and program-specific awards depending on the role, and a comprehensive benefit offering. The disclosed salary range reflects the geographic differential based on the location of the position if applicable. The starting salary for the successful applicant will depend on several job-related factors, including education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, and market demands. This range is based on a full-time position and may be adjusted in the future. Join us in shaping the future of work — tomorrow, together. Experience flexibility and empowerment in your career at Cornerstone. The BASE salary range for this position is: 70800 - 113300 USD.
Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, color, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable Federal, State, or Local fair employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at careers@csod.com or +1 855 454 8433.
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