Senior Platform Manager, Data Products, Finance Accounting

Details

Airbnb’s Business Technology organization supports the scaling of internal operations. The Finance Accounting Platform team owns the core finance accounting platform that records, processes, and reports the financial lifecycle of Airbnb’s products.

This role is the strategic and operational owner of the finance accounting platform, partnering with Product and Platform Managers, Finance stakeholders, Data Engineers, Oracle Applications teams, FP&A, and business units.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term roadmap for the finance accounting platform.
• Prioritize a high-volume platform funnel and balance competing requests using structured decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to optimize platform performance and reliability.
• Lead accounting implementation for new and evolving products, from accounting impact assessment and solution design through engineering alignment, UAT, release coordination, and production normalization.
• Design accounting workflows that record product lifecycle financials in Oracle FAH GL.
• Define and refine data pipeline monitoring controls.
• Support month-end close processes.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders to automate manual operational workflows.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on technical specifications and implementation approaches.
• Run UAT sessions with Revenue Controllership and Tax stakeholders.
• Analyze ad hoc data using SQL to support Finance and FP&A teams.
• Review data pipeline monitoring alerts and resolve control gaps with engineering.
• Lead process-automation working sessions with Treasury and Collections.
• Communicate complex technical changes and their business impact to senior Finance stakeholders.

Requirements

Accounting and Finance

• Subject matter expertise in accounting principles and ASC 606 revenue recognition.
• Ability to apply accounting standards to complex, multi-product digital marketplace environments.
• Experience implementing end-to-end accounting workflows across quote-to-cash cycles, including reporting and reconciliation.
• Hands-on experience supporting B2C product workflows on finance platforms, ideally at a high-growth, high-transaction-volume technology company.

Technical Skills

• Solid SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
• Ability to write performant queries against partitioned tables, aggregate high-cardinality transactional data, and troubleshoot data anomalies at scale.
• Understanding of big data principles, including distributed data processing, batch and streaming pipelines, data partitioning strategies, data lake and data warehouse architectures, and latency, throughput, and consistency tradeoffs.
• Understanding of transactional data characteristics, including event-driven data structures, ACID properties, immutability of financial records, audit trails, lineage requirements, multi-currency and multi-entity data handling, and period-end cutoff logic.
• Familiarity with subledger-to-General-Ledger data flows and validating accuracy across the process.
• Experience working with or alongside Oracle FAH, General Ledger, or equivalent ERP platforms.
• Ability to engage with technical design documents and align with engineering teams on implementation specifications.
• Familiarity with data pipeline architecture and monitoring controls, including SLA management, data quality checks, alerting frameworks, and reconciliation workflows.
• Active use of AI tools and technologies to improve productivity, analytical workflows, and process automation.

Platform and Product Management

• 6+ years of experience in platform management, product management, or technical program management with a strong finance and accounting data focus.
• Experience owning and managing complex, multi-stakeholder platform roadmaps with competing priorities.
• Track record of driving end-to-end delivery across design, engineering, testing, release, and production normalization.
• Experience working in Agile and continuous delivery models.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong influencing skills and emotional intelligence, with the ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Detail-oriented and highly analytical, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive clear outcomes.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and modern collaboration tools.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, or a related technical field.

Location

• US remote eligible.
• The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites.
• Candidates must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base pay range: $179,000–$207,000 USD.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Inclusion and Accessibility

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible and providing a disability-inclusive application and interview process. Reasonable accommodation support is available for candidates with disabilities.