Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior GL Accountant role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the operational core of a subscription business where timing, accuracy, and multi-entity complexity matter. Amplitude’s focus on modernizing close and investing in automation and AI-assisted workflows signals an environment where accounting is expected to evolve alongside the product and go-to-market engine, not simply keep score after the fact.
For a finance professional building a SaaS career, the remit touches many of the patterns that recur across high-growth software companies: disciplined month-end execution, cash visibility across multiple platforms, and the controls needed to support international activity. The combination of balance sheet ownership, indirect tax exposure, and cross-functional partnering creates experience that transfers well to future SaaS roles in controllership, revenue operations adjacent finance, or broader finance systems and process improvement tracks.
This position is best suited to someone who prefers clear ownership and can move between detailed reconciliations and pragmatic judgment calls. It will fit a candidate who enjoys collaborating with AP, Payroll, Tax, and Procurement to resolve issues at the source, and who is motivated by making accounting workflows more scalable through tooling rather than adding manual steps.
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Job Description
About the Role
Amplitude is looking for a Senior GL Accountant to join our lean, high-performing Controllership team. This role is critical to the monthly close process and will own several core accounting areas across cash, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, accruals, and international tax support. You’ll partner cross-functionally with teams including AP, Payroll, Tax, and Procurement while helping us scale and modernize our accounting operations.
We’re actively investing in automation and AI-assisted workflows, and we’re looking for someone who enjoys improving processes, solving problems, and helping the team operate smarter as we grow.
As a Senior GL Accountant, you will:
- Own critical components of the month-end close process, including preparing and reviewing journal entries, performing detailed balance sheet reconciliations, investigating variances, and ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and delivered on time
- Manage daily cash operations across multiple banking platforms, including monitoring activity, processing wires, recording transactions, preparing cash journal entries, and supporting monthly cash reporting and reconciliations
- Lead prepaid expense and fixed asset accounting processes end-to-end, including maintaining amortization and depreciation schedules, tracking additions and disposals, reconciling related GL accounts, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies
- Partner closely with AP, Payroll, Tax, Procurement, and other cross-functional stakeholders to resolve discrepancies, improve accounting workflows, strengthen operational processes, and support scalable financial reporting practices
- Support global accounting operations by reconciling international VAT/GST accounts, assisting with corporate tax accruals and sales tax reconciliations, and managing intercompany cost allocations, billing, and settlement activities across multiple entities and currencies
You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:
- You enjoy operating in a fast-paced environment where you can balance attention to detail with strong business judgment
- You’re energized by process improvement, automation, and finding smarter ways to work using AI-assisted tools and workflows
- You proactively identify issues, communicate risks early, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive resolution
- You’re comfortable managing multiple priorities during close while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and accountability
- You bring experience working with modern accounting and finance tools such as Ramp, Navan, ZIP, Avalara, or similar platforms
At a minimum, you need to have:
- 3–5 years of progressive GL accounting experience, ideally within a technology company and/or public accounting environment
- Strong working knowledge of NetSuite in a multi-entity and multi-currency environment
- Experience owning balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close responsibilities with minimal supervision
- Foundational knowledge of accrual accounting principles and exposure to areas such as fixed assets, prepaid expenses, and indirect tax reconciliations
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively across teams
Our values:
At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:
- Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
- Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
- Growth Mindset: We’re tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
- Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.
We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
Some of our benefit programs include:
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period up to $2,000 annually
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care a lot about product innovation. We've made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
- We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
- We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.
Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $121,000 - $181,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
