Senior accounting Manager

Knightscope • Sunnyvale, CA

3d • Remote

About The Position

Knightscope is seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to lead the Company’s record-to-report function. This role is crucial for driving timely, accurate, and well-controlled month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities. The Senior Accounting Manager will oversee the Payroll Supervisor and Senior Accountant, and collaborate with peer leaders in technical accounting, revenue accounting, and cost accounting to ensure accurate financial results. The position will focus on strengthening close discipline, audit readiness, internal reporting, monthly reconciliations and reviews, and supporting external reporting as the company scales. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader capable of managing deadlines, developing team members, improving processes and controls, and working effectively with cross-functional teams in a robotics manufacturing environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including experience leading close, reconciliations, audits, and financial reporting processes
• Prior people management experience, including supervising senior accountants, payroll, or other accounting team members
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, general ledger accounting, accruals, account reconciliations, and internal control practices
• Experience supporting audits, quarterly reviews, internal reporting, and external reporting deliverables
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical accounting, revenue accounting, cost accounting, finance, operations, and manufacturing stakeholders
• Strong analytical, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment

Nice To Haves

• CPA preferred
• Experience in manufacturing, robotics, hardware, technology, or other inventory-oriented environments preferred
• Experience with NetSuite, FloQast, or similar ERP, close management, and reconciliation tools preferred
• Public company, SOX, or audit firm experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the record-to-report function, including general ledger accounting, close management, journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial review procedures
• Drive the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process to ensure deadlines are met and results are accurate, complete, and supported
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, flux analyses, and supporting schedules prepared by the accounting team
• Supervise, coach, and develop the Payroll Supervisor and Senior Accountant, including workload planning, prioritization, and performance feedback
• Prepare and review internal reporting packages, management reporting schedules, and analysis of key balance sheet and income statement accounts
• Support external reporting by preparing schedules, reviewing disclosures and supporting documentation, and coordinating with technical accounting as needed
• Coordinate audit requests, organize prepared-by-client materials, respond to auditor inquiries, and help drive timely completion of quarterly reviews and annual audits
• Partner with the Senior Manager of Technical Accounting, Revenue Accounting Manager, and Senior Manager of Cost Accounting to resolve accounting matters and align close activities across functions
• Maintain and improve accounting policies, procedures, close checklists, reconciliation standards, and internal control documentation
• Identify opportunities to streamline close processes, enhance audit readiness, improve reporting quality, and scale accounting operations in a robotics manufacturing environment

Benefits

• Medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k)
• paid time off
• Stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior