Corporate Accountant - Palo Alto, CA

Corporate Accountant  · About the team and role · The Global Corporate Accounting team owns the close and critical process for ensuring the financial statements are timely ready for the SEC reporting team. Our partners primarily include FP&A, Revenue Ops, Financial Reporting, Tax ...

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Corporate Accountant 

About the team and role

The Global Corporate Accounting team owns the close and critical process for ensuring the financial statements are timely ready for the SEC reporting team. Our partners primarily include FP&A, Revenue Ops, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, and IT and we focus on delivering accurate, timely financials through scalable processes.

We are looking for a Corporate Accountant to join our Global Accounting team. In this role, you will be a member of the financial close process and participate in ad hoc projects as they arise. You will work cross-functionally across the organization and solve problems on as needed basis. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting at our HQ in Palo Alto and is an in-office hybrid role.

What you'll do:

• Accounting close: Execute close activities for assigned areas, preparing journal entries, reconciliations, and flux analyses. Have an opportunity to acquire knowledge in various accounting.
• Compliance: Ensure work product is compliant with US GAAP and SOX.
• External audit: Participate in walkthroughs and in providing audit requests to auditors. 
• Cross-functional: Collaborate with various team including global Corporate Accounting team, Financial Reporting, FP&A, AP/Procurement, Payroll, Revenue Ops, and IT.

We're looking for someone who has:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or progress toward CPA preferred.
• 2+ years of relevant experience; experience at Big 4 public accounting and/or high-growth public software/technology company is a plus.
• Understanding of US GAAP, close processes, and SOX.
• Experience in Excel/Google Sheets skills; comfortable working with large datasets and reconciliations.
• Familiarity with accounting tools (e.g., Netsuite, LeaseQuery, Coupa, BlackLine, FloQast) is a plus.
• Proactive, curious, strong communication skills, organized.
• Enjoys a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• 3 days a week in office per Rubrik's in-office requirements.

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The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US Pay Range $97,000—$145,400 USD

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Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. 

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Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

• Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.

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• Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.

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