Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This Accounting Manager role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of subscription economics, product investment, and public company reporting rigor. With Udemy and Coursera recently combined, the work naturally touches the kinds of integration and standardisation challenges common when SaaS platforms consolidate systems, policies, and global processes across entities and geographies.

For a SaaS-focused accounting career, the scope signals durable learning in areas that recur across modern software businesses: close acceleration, automation, multi currency operations, and audit readiness. The emphasis on internally developed software accounting also builds fluency in how SaaS companies capitalise and govern product and engineering spend, a topic that often becomes more complex as teams scale and tooling evolves.

This role is best suited to an operator who enjoys getting into details while still shaping repeatable processes, and who is comfortable partnering across Finance, Engineering, and People functions. It will likely appeal to someone ready to move from individual execution into team leadership, with an interest in building controllership capabilities that transfer across public or late stage SaaS environments.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

About Udemy
Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform transforming how companies and individuals across the world build the capabilities needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving workplace. By combining on-demand, multi-language content with real-time innovation, Udemy delivers personalized experiences that empower organizations to scale workforce development and help individuals build the technical, business, and soft skills most relevant to their careers. Today, thousands of companies, including Samsung SDS America, On24, Tata Consultancy Services, The World Bank, and Volkswagen, rely on Udemy Business for its enterprise solutions to build agile, future-ready teams. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, with hubs across the United States, Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. Udemy recently combined with Coursera to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.

Where we Work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is a hybrid position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills

Accountability and Ownership: You take great initiative to independently identify, investigate, and resolve accounting issues. You use critical thinking to follow a defined decision making process, consider multiple perspectives, and know when to escalate for help. You hold yourself and others accountable and see projects through to resolution.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication: You develop relationships across the organization and leverage those to achieve shared goals. You effectively communicate and negotiate with stakeholders to define mutually-agreeable solutions that meet the requisite accounting requirements. You can effectively manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines.
Problem Solving: You understand the importance of “getting in the weeds” while not losing sight of the bigger picture. You are a strong system-based and analytical thinker and work towards potential solutions with accounting and other cross-functional partners.
Growth Mindset: You're eager to learn new skills, tools, and subject matter. You consider alternative perspectives, quickly absorb complex information, adapt to shifting priorities, and tackle unfamiliar challenges with confidence.
Technical Depth: You bring strong foundational knowledge in accounting principles and operations, able to balance business operations and requirements with what’s acceptable under the accounting rules. You are a keen researcher and bring a materiality and risk-based approach to your work.

About this role

As Accounting Manager, you will be primarily responsible for a variety of corporate and technical accounting areas. You will be a hands-on operator and decision maker, developing best in class policies and processes while helping execute and transform the accounting close. Udemy and Coursera completed their merger in May 2026, and you will play a vital role in advising and navigating through the integration of multiple processes, accounting policies and systems. You will routinely collaborate with multiple cross-functional colleagues across the globe, including Payroll, Benefits, Engineering, Finance, People, and Procurement, to ensure proper accounting treatment and timely financial results. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Accounting.

What you’ll be doing

Manage a team of two individual contributors, including oversight and review of work in a variety of corporate accounting areas including personnel costs, commissions, prepaid expenses, cash, investment activities, and fixed assets.
Lead the accounting for internally-developed capitalized software in accordance with ASC 350-40 , partnering with Engineering, Product, FP&A, and other stakeholders to ensure processes and systems are designed to support timely and accurate financial reporting.
Ensure timely and accurate preparation and review of journal entries, reconciliations, fluctuation analysis, and other month-end close activities for the above areas, with a focus on close acceleration, automation and continuous improvement.
Perform research and prepare supporting documentation over complex and other non-routine transactions, including but not limited to commissions, legal contingencies, intercompany transactions, foreign currency transactions, and deferred compensation.
Coordinate with external auditors and provide support for audits, SOX internal control and compliance activities, financial statement tie out, and other regulatory requirements.
Support integration-related projects by providing key subject matter expertise and implementing process and system-specific recommendations.
Lead and develop your team of direct reports, including providing technical guidance, coaching, performance feedback, and opportunities for further career development.
Assist with accounting analyses, system implementations, and other special projects as needed.

What you’ll have

5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with high preference for experience at Big 4 public accounting firms or publicly-traded companies.
1+ year of direct people management experience.
Experience working in the technology or SaaS industries.
Experience with high volume, multi-currency transactions in a global business environment.
Experience with NetSuite is highly preferred.
Experience with data analytics or visualization tools (such as Alteryx) and AI tools (such as Claude or Floqast agents) a nice-to-have.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred.

Posting Date: 6/17/2026
Application Window: We anticipate the application window will be open until July 3rd, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.

Hiring Compensation Range

$113,600—$142,000 USD

Why work here?

You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You’ll own your work.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together.

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies.

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. We understand that not everyone will match each of the qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

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