Vice President, Technical Accounting

Role Overview

• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to decide what we build and in what order. You will translate the real accounting complexity our customers face into product vision, and you will hold the line on technical correctness as the platform scales.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for the most complex customer accounting questions across multiple standards.
• Anchor the accounting authority layer for the Evidence Room, our immutable trust layer linking contracts, calculations, journal entries, footnotes, and disclosures back to source guidance. Establish the accounting governance framework for our AI agent and MCP server strategy — defining what agents can decide autonomously, what requires human review, and how we document decisions for auditor defensibility.
• Build and deepen relationships with Big Four and national audit firms. Position FinQuery's output as auditor-trusted by default.
• Track standard-setting activity at FASB, IASB, and GASB and translate what is coming into product and market strategy. Represent FinQuery in front of working groups and AICPA committees where appropriate.
• Own our external technical voice. Publish articles, speak at conferences, and represent FinQuery across webinars, industry media, and the accounting press. Partner with Marketing on category-defining content and with Sales on enterprise deals where technical credibility closes the room.
• Lead and develop the technical accounting team. Set the bar for technical depth, customer responsiveness, and product collaboration. Serve as the subject matter expert for Revenue Enablement to build training that brings new technical accountants up to FinQuery standard.
• Provide technical accounting due diligence on M&A targets and stress-test new product concepts for accounting soundness before engineering commits resources.

Requirements

• Active CPA license.
• 12 or more years of progressive technical accounting experience, including at least five years in a Big Four or national firm technical accounting or national office role.
• Deep, demonstrable expertise across multiple technical accounting standards. We want fluency across at least three of: leases, debt, fixed assets, revenue recognition, hedge accounting, stock-based compensation.
• Experience translating accounting guidance into software requirements or audit methodology.
• Track record of customer-facing or external-facing work. You can hold your own in front of a CFO, an audit partner, or a board.
• Experience leading and developing a team of technical professionals.

Strongly preferred

• Experience with AI, agentic systems, or audit automation tools. Comfort with the question "how should an AI agent be permitted to apply accounting judgment, and how do we document it?"
• Public company SEC reporting experience.
• International standards experience (IFRS, GASB).
• Vertical SaaS or audit technology company experience.

Benefits

• Annual employee development program stipend of $2,000 for each employee
• Mentorship program (available immediately)
• Sabbatical program (4 weeks after 5 years of service)
• Advancement opportunities based on results, not politics
• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Signing stipend for a work-from-home setup
• Great health benefits with multiple plan option
• Flexible PTO (including 11 holidays and your birthday off)
• Free gym membership at our office (Atlanta HQ)
• Casual dress environment (when in office)
• Catered lunches every Tuesday & Thursday (when in office)
• Parental Leave Benefits
• Fertility/Adoption Assistance
• Annual tutoring stipend for your children