Technical Accounting Manager
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Technical Accounting Manager at Databricks is a forward deployed data & ai platform role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Technical Leadership role centers on team leadership, customer program ownership, and scaling delivery playbooks. Key signals from the listing: Senior scope.
About Databricks
Databricks sells a unified data platform to enterprises. Forward deployed engineers help customers migrate workloads and prove value on live data. The role is anchored in Bengaluru, India, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Technical Accounting Manager
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Technical Accounting Manager to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Databricks hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Quantify team and program scale: people managed, number of concurrent customer deployments, and revenue or mission outcomes influenced.
- Explain how you built repeatable playbooks so delivery quality did not depend on one hero engineer.
- This role is tied to Bengaluru, India — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Databricks
- Demonstrate Spark/SQL fluency with a concrete example — Databricks will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate enterprise stakeholder management with a concrete example — Databricks will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Strong candidates show they can whiteboard a lakehouse migration and then actually implement the first milestone.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on databricks.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
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We are seeking an experienced Technical Accounting Manager to join our team to lead the revenue accounting function in Bengaluru to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant revenue recognition for Databricks. Drive close excellence (MEC), strengthen internal controls (SOX-ready), and partner cross-functionally across RevOps, Deal Desk, Revenue Assurance, Sales Ops, Legal, FP&A, and Audit. This position requires close collaboration with our core Revenue Accounting teams based in the U.S., providing essential global financial support to Databricks. This is an individual contributor position, and you will be required to work in PST hours.
The impact you will have:
Ensure proper application of ASC 606 to customer contracts. Perform and review monthly accounting close activities and deliverables (i.e. journal entries, account reconciliations, revenue estimate calculations, month-end analytics). Execute and continuously improve MEC Own revenue subledger-to-GL tie-out; prepare and review journal entries and reconciliations (deferred revenue, contract assets, unbilled AR). Perform flux analysis vs. plan/prior period; resolve discrepancies quickly and conclusively. Sponsor process and system enhancements across ERP, billing, and revenue automation; define requirements, lead UAT, and maintain controls and documentation. Support the financial reporting process by preparing supporting schedules Establish well-defined checklists, calendars, and SLAs for MEC and audits; escalate blockers early and