About This Role

Strava is the leading digital community for active people with more than 125 million athletes, in more than 190 countries. The platform offers a holistic view of your active lifestyle, no matter where you live, which sport you love and/or what device you use. Everyone belongs on Strava when they are pursuing an active life.

We’re excited to introduce a key role at Strava that will shape the future of our financial operations. As the first Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting Manager within our controllership function, based in our San Francisco office, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring our financial reporting is both accurate and compliant. You'll lead the charge in implementing new accounting standards, handle financial reporting, and deliver critical insights to senior leadership. With expertise in US GAAP, SEC regulations, and key areas such as stock-based compensation, leases, and business combinations, you’ll drive innovation and excellence in our accounting practices. This is an outstanding chance to create a significant impact and be a cornerstone of our financial strategy as we continue to grow and evolve.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office.

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You’re excited about this opportunity because you will:

  • Lead Technical Accounting: Oversee the company’s technical accounting operations, ensuring full compliance with US GAAP and SEC regulations, while championing the adoption of new accounting standards.
  • Manage Financial Reporting: Oversee the preparation and review of accurate, timely financial statements, including quarterly and annual reports, ensuring they clearly reflect the company’s financial health and position.
  • Contribute to Internal Management Reporting: Play a key role in the development and delivery of detailed internal reports to senior leadership, offering insights and analysis that support informed decision-making strategic planning.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with FP&A, Legal, People, and Partnerships teams to provide reliable technical accounting guidance, ensuring cohesive alignment on key financial initiatives.
  • Support Audit and Filing Processes: Act as one of the primary contact for external audits, collaborating with auditors to ensure all filings are completed accurately and on time.
  • Operationalize Technical Accounting Guidance: Partner with accounting operations to implement and operationalize new technical accounting standards, ensuring seamless integration into the company’s financial processes.
  • Lead the Controllership Function: Serve as a key leader within the controllership team, offering expert guidance and support to accounting operations as neeed. Play a pivotal role in driving the department’s strategic direction and contributing to its overall success.

You will be successful here by:

  • Applying Deep Technical Expertise: Leveraging your extensive knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements to ensure accuracy and compliance in all accounting and reportingprocesses.
  • Staying Current on Accounting Standards: Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in accounting standards and regulations, and effectively integrating new requirements into the company’s processes.
  • Ensuring Robust Internal Controls: Maintaining, enhancing, and building SOX compliance and internal controls over financial reporting, ensuring that all financial processes and controls are effective and aligned with regulatory requirements.
  • Proactively Identifying Issues: Anticipating potential accounting or reporting challenges and addressing them early, ensuring smooth financial operations and minimizing risks.
  • Communicating Effectively: Clearly conveying complex technical accounting topics to both financial and non-financial stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding across the organization.
  • Driving Continuous Improvement: Consistently seeking out opportunities to streamline and enhance accounting processes, implementing best practices and scalable solutions, contributing to a more efficient and effective controllership function.
  • Demonstrating Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Quickly analyzing and resolving complex technical accounting issues, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.

We’re excited about you because:

  • You bring extensive experience in technical accounting: You have 5-7 years of relevant accounting experience in the technology industry, with a minimum of 4-5 years in public accounting, which provides you with a solid foundation in complex accounting principles.
  • You have a CPA or equivalent certification: Your professional certification demonstrates yourexpertise and commitment to high standards in accounting.
  • You have in-depth knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting: Your comprehensive understanding of these regulations enables you to ensure compliance and accuracy in all financial reporting.
  • You possess specialized expertise in key accounting areas: You have strong knowledge in areas such as stock-based compensation (ASC 718), equity (ASC 505), lease accounting (ASC 842), revenue recognition (ASC 606), and business combinations (ASC 805), which are critical to the role.
  • You have strong financial reporting skills: You have a proven track record of preparing and reviewing financial statements, including 10-Q and 10-K filings, in a public company setting.
  • You have expertise in SOX and internal controls: You have a strong background in Sarbanes- Oxley (SOX) compliance and internal controls over financial reporting, demonstrating your ability to design, implement, and monitor effective control frameworks that ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.
  • You’re proficient in accounting and financial reporting systems: Experience with NetSuite or similar ERP systems, Workiva or similar financial reporting systems, advanced Excel skills, and data analysis tools such as SQL, Tableau, or Alteryx.

About Strava

Strava is Swedish for “strive,” which epitomizes who we are and what we do. We’re a passionate and committed team, unified by our mission to connect athletes to what motivates them and help them find their personal best. With billions of activity uploads from all over the world, we have a humbling and adventurous vision: to be the record of the world’s athletic activities and the technology that makes every effort count.

Strava builds software that makes the best part of our athletes’ days even better. Just as we’re deeply committed to unlocking their potential, we’re dedicated to providing a world-class, inclusive workplace where our employees can grow and thrive, too. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital, TCV, Madrone Partners and Jackson Square Ventures, and we’re expanding in order to exceed the needs of our growing community of global athletes. Our culture reflects our community. We are continuously striving to hire and engage diverse teammates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives because we know we are a stronger team together.

Despite challenges in the world around us, we are continuing to grow camaraderie and positivity within our culture, and we are unified in our commitment to becoming an antiracist company. We are differentiated by our truly people-first approach, our compassionate leadership, and our belief that we can bring joy and inspiration to athletes’ lives — now more than ever. All to say, it’s a great time to join Strava!

Strava is an equal opportunity employer. In keeping with the values of Strava, we make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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