Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting
Position Title: Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting
Location: Dallas, Texas
Your role
As the Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting, you will be a strategic and hands-on accounting leader responsible for ensuring the timely and accurate completion of corporate accounting functions. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Corporate Accounting, this role ensures the accuracy and timeliness of the monthly close processes while driving operational efficiencies through automation, process improvements, and strong internal controls. The ideal candidate possesses a high level of attention to detail, technical accounting expertise, and strong cross-functional collaboration, particularly in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
What you'll do
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the corporate accounting team.
- Ensure integrity of financial statements through timely analytical review, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
- Maintain compliance with US GAAP and company accounting policies.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for high-risk, complex corporate accounting matters, including the review and approval of judgmental journal entries, estimates, and complex reconciliations.
- Lead executive-level financial analysis and insights related to company performance, and operational drivers, including the development and presentation of KPIs to accounting and finance leadership.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate accounting-related financial and compliance risks, ensuring timely escalation, clear recommendations, and partnership with leadership on resolution strategies.
- Oversee and lead internal and external audit engagements for areas of responsibility, including audit strategy, issue resolution, and communication with auditors and senior stakeholders.
- Drive finance transformation initiatives, including automation, system enhancements, and reporting modernization, in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders to improve scalability, accuracy, and insight.
- Ensure data integrity and governance across subledgers and ERP platforms; partner with IT and systems teams to resolve root-cause issues and strengthen system controls.
- Build, develop, and mentor high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative, accountability-driven culture and providing technical guidance, coaching, and performance feedback.
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor and cross-functional leader, partnering with the CAO organization and functions as a steward of accounting excellence, process optimization, and global standardization.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting required; Master's degree a plus.
- Active CPA certification required.
- 8–12+ years of progressive accounting experience in complex, high-growth or matrixed environments, including a minimum of 5 years in corporate accounting with increasing leadership responsibility.
- Strong command of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, SOX compliance, and experience operating within a public company control environment.
- Prior experience in a large, publicly traded company strongly preferred; experience in data centers, telecom, SaaS, real estate, or other recurring-revenue industries highly desirable.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams through both hands-on execution and strategic oversight, including the ability to flex between high-level review and detailed problem-solving as needed.
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex accounting matters and recommendations to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Advanced experience with accounting systems, ERPs, and close tools (e.g., Blackline, Yardi, Oracle, SAP, or similar), with strong Excel and data analytics capabilities and comfort working with large data sets and complex contracts.
- Experience leading or playing a key role in accounting system implementations, process transformations, or automation initiatives strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment under pressure, and drive outcomes in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Proactive, self-directed leader with the ability to think strategically, adapt quickly, and continuously improve processes and team effectiveness.
- Collaborative, inclusive leader who contributes positively to team culture and thrives in a high-performance, growth-oriented environment.
A bit about us
Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, our global data center platform, gives customers a reliable foundation for scaling their digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges. The size and scale of our business puts us in a unique position to offer customers access to 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries and six continents.
A bit about our Digital team
Our Finance team works in one of the world's fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our financial expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly listed organization. From managing budgets to financial planning, we deliver a full range of finance and accounting services to help our business stay on track and meet our goals. We also have other specialist areas of expertise including Portfolio Management and Lease Administration.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.
Required Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Business Acumen
- Communication
- Courageous Conversation
- Driving Results (Individual or Team)
- Excel
- Financial Reporting
- Handling Conflict
- IFRS
- Influence & Negotiations
- International Finance
- Managing employee life cycle events
- Process Improvement
- Reporting Software
- Risk Mitigation
- Sox Compliance
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Accounting
- Understanding & Managing Self