Senior Accountant

Cerence AI is seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Senior Accountant to support our global finance organization. This role is critical in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, with a strong focus on month-end and quarter-end close processes, accruals, payroll accounting, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead key components of the month-end and quarter-end close, including preparation and review of journal entries (commissions, payroll, fringe benefits, accruals)
• Manage Open PO accrual process, including reporting, stakeholder coordination, and variance analysis
• Prepare and analyze payroll-related entries across U.S. and Canada entities, including bi-weekly processing support
• Perform account reconciliations and true-ups (vacation liabilities, commissions, Azure/vendor accruals)
• Partner with Procurement, Payroll, and SEC Reporting teams to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial data
• Review commissions and billing data to ensure proper accounting treatment
• Support audit requests and contribute to process improvements and automation initiatives

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (CPA preferred)
• 5+ years of relevant public accounting experience, ideally in a multinational or tech-driven environment
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and accrual-based accounting
• Experience with payroll, commissions, and intercompany accounting
• Advanced Excel skills; ERP system experience (Workday, Blackline preferred)
• This is a Remote USA role for our company HQ in the Greater Boston area.

What we offer

At Cerence AI, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, personal wellbeing, and life outside of work.  Benefits are effective from the date of hire.

Our benefits include:

• The expected salary range for this position is $83,800 - $125,700 USD. The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors.

• Annual bonus opportunity

• Flexible Time Off

• Choice‑based medical coverage plus Dental and Vision plans

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance

• Disability and life insurance

• We also offer an Employee Assistance Program, a wellbeing platform, volunteer hours, a broad employee discount marketplace, tuition reimbursement and a global rewards and recognition program.

All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable, and may be amended, terminated, or replaced from time to time.

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.  

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry. 

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
- Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.

- Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).

- Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.