
International Accounting Manager at Glean
Bangalore, IndiaFull-timeG&APosted 10 days ago
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<div class="content-intro"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Glean:</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Role:</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We are seeking an experienced International Accounting Manager to lead the statutory accounting, statutory ledger, audit, and compliance responsibilities across Glean’s international subsidiaries, with a primary focus on India as our largest and most complex international entity. This role will own the integrity of local books, support timely and accurate statutory reporting, coordinate audits and filings, and partner closely with Tax, Accounting Operations, Finance Systems, Legal, and external advisors to build scalable and compliant international accounting processes.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is a high-impact role for someone who combines strong technical accounting judgment with operational rigor and the ability to drive execution across multiple jurisdictions in a fast-growing environment.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>You will: </strong></span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Statutory Ledgers and Local Books</span>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own and manage statutory ledgers and local books for international subsidiaries, with the deepest focus on India.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ensure books of account are maintained in accordance with applicable local GAAP and statutory requirements while aligning appropriately with group reporting needs.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Oversee book-specific entries, local GAAP adjustments, and reconciliations between primary and secondary/statutory ledgers.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner with Finance Systems to improve NetSuite multibook design, reporting, and control frameworks for statutory accounting.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Statutory Audits and Financial Reporting</span>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead annual statutory audits across international entities, serving as the primary point of contact for external auditors.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prepare and review audit-ready schedules, reconciliations, supporting documentation, and statutory financial statements.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Coordinate with internal stakeholders and advisors to resolve accounting, disclosure, and compliance issues arising during audits.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Compliance and Regulatory Reporting</span>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monitor and manage statutory compliance calendars across international entities, including filings, financial statements, and other local reporting obligations.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner closely with the Tax team on direct and indirect tax compliance, transfer pricing support, tax audits, and local regulatory matters.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure timely completion of all foreign subsidiaries compliance requirements including statutory books, audit support, and coordination for tax and transfer pricing deliverables.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Track evolving local accounting and compliance requirements and translate them into actionable process updates.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Entity Controllership</span>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure adequate funding for the entities by developing the strategies for receiving the funds for operation and capex spends</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, flux analyses, and intercompany balances for international entities.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure financial records are complete, accurate, and supported by robust documentation and internal controls.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Support local-to-US GAAP bridge considerations and ensure clean handoff into consolidation.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Controls, Process Improvement and Cross-Functional Partnership</span>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strengthen internal controls and audit readiness for international accounting processes, including preparation for controls-based audits in India.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Document SOPs, reconciliation standards, review controls, and close checklists for statutory accounting activities.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner cross-functionally with Tax, Legal, Payroll, Accounting Operations, and external consultants on compliance-heavy and execution-heavy workstreams.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify process improvement and automation opportunities to improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and scale international accounting operations as new entities are added.</span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About you: </strong></span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Chartered Accountant required; additional accounting or finance qualifications are a plus.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">6–9+ years of progressive experience in accounting, statutory reporting, audit, and compliance, preferably in multinational or high-growth environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong hands-on experience managing statutory ledgers, statutory audits, and compliance for Foreign subsidiaries</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience supporting multiple international subsidiaries and working across local GAAP and group reporting requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Proven track record of managing external auditors, compliance calendars, and complex reconciliations with minimal supervision.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with controls-based audits / IFC readiness is strongly preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of International statutory accounting (IFRS, US GAAP), financial reporting, and compliance requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Working knowledge of accounting for international entities and practical understanding of local GAAP vs US GAAP reporting considerations.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite; multibook or statutory ledger experience strongly preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large reconciliations, audit schedules, and reporting packs.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong ownership mindset and ability to independently drive deadlines across multiple stakeholders.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Excellent project management, prioritization, and follow-through in a fast-paced environment.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Clear communicator who can work effectively with auditors, advisors, and cross-functional internal teams.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Detail-oriented, controls-focused, and able to balance technical quality with execution speed.</span></li>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office)</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Compensation & Benefits:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>AI-First Mindset at Glean:</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. <strong>As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. </strong>Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.</span></div>
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