The posting
At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
This role is a hybrid position
This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston office locations and should expect to be in office 3-4 days per week.
The Role
Sonos is looking for an Accounting Solutions Engineer to join the Corporate Accounting team. This role combines strong corporate accounting expertise — consolidations, technical accounting, and external reporting support — with a hands-on focus on AI, automation, and scalable process design. As Sonos accounting modernizes from manual, review-heavy workflows toward AI-enabled and self-service processes, this person will be a primary architect of that shift within the Corporate Accounting pillar.
The ideal candidate brings solid technical accounting knowledge together with real experience using AI tools, scripting, and workflow automation to reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and speed up the close and reporting cycle. Accounting accuracy and judgment remain the foundation — automation is what frees that judgment to focus on the areas that actually need it.
What You’ll Do
AI, AUTOMATION & FINANCIAL SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS
- Design and implement AI-assisted and automated workflows across consolidations, technical accounting, close, and reconciliation review processes.
- Identify manual or repetitive corporate accounting tasks and redesign them using AI tools, scripting (Google Apps Script, Python), and financial systems integrations.
- Build scalable workpapers, dashboards, exception reporting, and validation checks — including tools that generate preliminary variance commentary for financial statement fluxes — to improve efficiency and review quality.
- Partner with Finance Systems, Data, and IT to ensure automated solutions are reliable, auditable, controlled, and SOX-compliant.
- Evaluate emerging AI and automation tools and recommend practical applications for Corporate Accounting.
- Ensure AI-generated outputs are validated using professional judgment and technical accounting knowledge before use in close, consolidation, or reporting deliverables.
TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING, AUDIT, & EXTERNAL REPORTING
- Own complex technical accounting areas and related processes, including lease accounting (ASC 842), software capitalization projects (ASC 350-40), and compensation (ASC 718); building repeatable and well-documented processes rather than one-off analysis.
- Support the consolidation process, including foreign exchange revaluations, intercompany eliminations, and complex consolidation workflows, with direct ownership of specialized areas.
- Design and oversee the policy that determines which reconciliations and journal entries require full review versus automated exception-based sign-off, retaining final approval authority on higher-risk areas so review time concentrates on genuine anomalies.
- Continuously improve the quarterly and annual reporting and audit cycle — automating flux analysis and variance commentary across the cash flow, balance sheet, and income statement, as well as audit schedule preparation and tie-out validation — interacting with external auditors as needed.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIP
- Serve as a practical technology builder within Corporate Accounting, helping identify where AI, automation, and financial systems investment create the most value.
- Partner with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Finance Systems/Data, and external auditors on accounting data, process, and system improvements.
- Maintain detailed process documentation, system documentation, and SOX-compliant control structures for all newly automated workflows.
What You’ll Need
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative field required. CPA certification is strongly preferred.
- 6–8 years of progressive accounting experience, with a mix of public accounting and corporate industry experience.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Must possess expertise/knowledge sufficient to adequately perform the duties of the job being offered. Expertise/knowledge may be gained through employment experience or education. Required expertise/knowledge includes:
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP, including technical accounting areas such as ASC 842 (Leases), software capitalization (ASC 350-40), consolidations, and multi-entity intercompany structures.
- Demonstrated builder mindset — proven ability to identify manual accounting processes and design scalable, controlled, and repeatable solutions, not just a willingness to use new tools.
- Hands-on experience with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot), scripting languages (Google Apps Script, Python, VBA), and BI/automation platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx).
- Experience with major enterprise ERPs (e.g., SAP) and consolidation software.
- Ability to translate technical accounting requirements into process, data, and system design requirements.
- Strong project management, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally across Accounting, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Finance Systems, and external auditors.
- Practical curiosity about emerging AI and automation capabilities, with the judgment to apply them responsibly in a controlled finance environment.
Research shows that some candidates may not apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we still strongly encourage you to apply if interested.
Visa Sponsorship: Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for us in the United States, both now and in the future.
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Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.
The base pay range for this role based off geographic location is:
$102,000 and $126,900
The specific pay offered will depend on the candidate’s geographic location, as well as qualifications and experience. We apply geographic pay differentials based on the cost of labor in the market. Employees in high-cost locations may be compensated at the upper end of the range, while those in medium or low cost markets may be compensated at the lower end of the range. Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well-being of our employees. Regular full time employees in the US are eligible for benefits on day one, including:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting
- An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure-based vacation accruals required
- 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually
- Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
- Sonos offers a generous paid leave program for new parents or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, as well as short- and long-term disability for your own medical condition
- Company-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance
- Mental health benefits to support your holistic well-being
- A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
Notice to U.S. Job Applicants: Sonos is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
