• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.

• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.

• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.

• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role, you will:

• Manage various close responsibilities including, but not limited to, cash, prepaids and other assets, accruals, property and equipment, internally developed software and cloud computing costs, inter-company transactions and cost allocations.

• Oversee and review the preparation of financial reporting packages provided to senior executives for business performance reviews.

• Support the development and implementation of accounting policies and practices in conformity with GAAP.

• Perform and/or review balance sheet account reconciliations for responsible areas and coach staff on exuding reconciliation best practices and timely clearing of reconciling items.

• Work cross-functionally to ensure accruals and other estimates and assumptions are reasonable, supportable and complete.

• Collaborate with Finance Transformations to drive efficiencies in our systems environment through the deployment of RPA and support UAT and deployment of system functionality in support of corporate sponsored initiatives.

• Work with Finance and Strategy to ensure proper coding of journals across the Company’s cost center structures and resolving questions escalated during month-end close procedures in a timely fashion.

• Perform fluctuation reviews on balance sheet and P&L accounts ensuring movements are reasonable, supportable and explained.

• Ensure effective internal controls by reviewing control design and creating operating mechanisms that ensure all relevant controls are performed and documented in accordance with expectations.

• Possess technical accounting acumen to spot errors or anomalies in the books and records and escalate such items to Accounting leadership while leading the disposition of such items as they are identified.

• Familiarity of accounting for the effects of fluctuations in foreign currencies upon both remeasurement and translation (ASC 830).

• Demonstrate professional integrity and resilience when operating under pressure by scrutinizing the status quo and questioning ideas to ensure the accuracy of financial information.

• Promoting a “coaching culture” by investing time with the team to ensure they are familiar with best practices and are motivated to maintain an uncompromising bias for world-class practices in executing roles and responsibilities across the function.

• Keep current on trends and developments in the accounting field by reading appropriate books, journals, and other literature and attending related conferences and seminars, and encouraging department team members to pursue and maintain professional accreditation and licensure, as appropriate.

• Execute other ad-hoc projects and initiatives as directed by the Assistant Controller in accordance with Samsara’s strategy and company values.

• Other duties may be assigned as required.

• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.

• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team.

• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, 3+ years of public accounting experience preferred.

• CPA required.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance, business, or related field.

• Strong working knowledge of Excel.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Experience using Netsuite.

• Experience managing a team.

• Experience in a SaaS environment.