Director, Technical Accounting
Application analysis
Director, Technical Accounting at Snowflake is a forward deployed cloud data warehouse role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Technical Leadership role centers on team leadership, customer program ownership, and scaling delivery playbooks. Key signals from the listing: Senior scope.
About Snowflake
Snowflake field engineers drive warehouse migrations and analytics modernization with enterprise buyers. The role is anchored in US-CA-Menlo Park, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Director, Technical Accounting
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Director, Technical Accounting to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Snowflake 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 US-CA-Menlo Park — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Snowflake
- Demonstrate SQL/ELT patterns with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate cost governance with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Proof of running a successful migration or cost-optimization project beats generic cloud buzzwords.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on snowflake.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We’re growing and looking for a skilled Director, Technical Accounting to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Director, Assistant Controller, this key position will be responsible for the Company’s accounting policies, addressing technical accounting matters that arise from business transactions and implementing new accounting pronouncements.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as key stakeholder related to acquisitions and strategic investments regarding accounting due diligence, accounting treatment, reporting and disclosures
- Identify, research and document the Company's technical accounting issues; work proactively with external auditors to drive timely closure of technical accounting matters
- Prepare or review technical accounting memos on complex transactions, including, but not limited to, acquisitions, strategic investments, foreign currency matters and hedging
- Draft, update or review the Company’s accounting policies
- Assess and implement new or changes to U.S. GAAP and be able to articulate changes and impact to executives and non-Finance audience in plain English
- Develop and maintain effective internal controls over the technical accounting function
- Provide training to internal Finance and Accounting group on technical accounting matters
- Assist in the operationalizing any changes associated with new transactions/new GAAP within Finance
- Assist in the preparation of all SEC filings and quarterly earnings release
- Assist in managing auditor PBC requests
- Ad hoc projects, analysis and reporting as required by management
Required Skills/expertise:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with CPA license required
- Minimum 10 years of related experience with a combination of Big 4 public accounting industry experience
- Strong technical accounting background with a thorough knowledge of U.S. GAAP (especially ASC 805, 32X, 815, 830 and 606), SOX 404 and SEC reporting standards, as well as experience with technical research
- Self-starter with proactive approach to problem identification and remediation solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, and a great team player.
- Superior attention to detail
The expectation is that this person works in the Dublin and/or Menlo Park, CA office at least 3 days a week. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com