Role Description

As a GL Accountant, you will be a key member of the GL Consolidation team. You will be focused on playing a key role in supporting critical areas of the month-end close process, including accruals, payroll accounting, lease accounting, and account reconciliations. You’ll help ensure timely and accurate financial reporting by preparing journal entries, maintaining schedules, and assisting with variance analysis and audits. You’ll also contribute to streamlining recurring workflows and driving automation opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and accuracy. This role offers exposure to accounting areas such as ASC 842, and collaboration with teams like FP&A and Payroll. You’ll gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and build a strong foundation for a long-term career in corporate accounting. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and contribute to impactful work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with FP&A to record accruals and reclasses supporting forecast accuracy and reporting integrity
• Process payroll-related journal entries, including 401(k) contributions and payroll cash entries
• Maintain and execute auto-reversing entries to streamline the monthly close process
• Account for finance lease inception entries and ASC 842 lease entries for operating and subleases, ensuring compliance with US GAAP
• Perform payroll and accrual reconciliations to maintain ledger accuracy and support audit readiness
• Prepare and explain quarterly balance sheet flux analyses to provide insight into key account movements
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures
• Gather schedules for external auditors for the financial statement audit process
• Assist with special projects as needed

• Partner with IT and Transformation team to optimize system functionality and exploit opportunities for automation and process improvements
• Partner with the Payroll Team to ensure all payroll activities are posted to the general ledger and payroll accounts are reconciled timely and accurately
• Partner with FP&A to ensure timely and accurate accruals, supporting seamless month-end close and reliable financial reporting

• Prepare and provide detailed documentation and schedules to support internal and external audit requests
• Collaborate with auditors by responding to inquiries and ensuring timely resolution of audit findings

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 3-4 years of experience in corporate accounting or finance, preferably supporting month-end close
• Strong understanding of general accounting principles (GAAP)
• Experience with accrual accounting, journal entries, and account reconciliations
• Effective interpersonal skills and communicator who is comfortable using a multiple mediums to collaborate
• Proficiency in Excel and accounting systems (e.g., Oracle)
• Detail-oriented team player with good organizational skills, who is motivated to succeed in a remote environment
• Problem solver with strong analytical skills and can navigate changing priorities and ambiguity with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset
• Execution-focused, with the ability to take individual responsibility for delivering quality work in a timely manner

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle Cloud or equivalent ERP product software strongly preferred
• Familiarity with and payroll accounting experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience and comfort with large volume data sets for accounting, impacting journal entries, analysis, and reconciliations
• Breadth as well as depth of accounting experience, if this is available

Compensation

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Finance Team creates the financial infrastructure that powers our growth and scales our business. We combine analytical precision with bold thinking to build sustainable value for our company and stakeholders. More than traditional accountants, auditors, and finance managers, we're strategic partners who craft the financial architecture that enables innovation. Working closely with internal teams and external partners, we continuously look for ways to drive business impact while maintaining trust, accuracy, and rigor in everything we do. If you're ready to own your impact on Dropbox’s financial future, join our Finance team. Accounting, Sales Finance, Procurement, Audit, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, and Revenue Operations.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.