Senior Platform Manager, Data Products, Finance Accounting

About the job

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb's Business Technology (Biztech) organization sits at the heart of how we scale our internal operations to match the pace and ambition of our products. Within Biztech, the Finance Accounting Platform team owns the core finance accounting platform — the system that records, processes, and reports the financial lifecycle of every product Airbnb offers to the world. This is a senior finance systems product role: you are the product owner for the platform, its roadmap, and its controls.

As a Senior Platform Manager on this team, you will be embedded in a rich, cross-functional community spanning the full breadth of Airbnb's business. You'll partner daily with Product and Platform Managers across Payments, Trust, Guest & Host, Pricing, Insurance, Hotels, and Customer Service — as well as Finance stakeholders from Revenue Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Payments Legal, Consolidation, Collections, and Cash. You'll work closely with Data Engineers and Oracle Applications teams to bring platform solutions to life, and collaborate with FP&A and Business Unit teams who depend on the data your platform produces.
This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of finance, product, and engineering — often someone who started in accounting or audit and moved into finance systems or a techno-functional product management role — and who finds energy in being the connective tissue across a large, diverse, and highly capable community. Additionally, you bring in that broad perspective and proven track record of implementing platform solutions that scale to changing business needs

The Difference You Will Make:

You will be the strategic and operational owner of the finance accounting platform — the single point of accountability for shaping how it evolves to support Airbnb's growing portfolio of product offerings. Your impact will be felt across three dimensions:

Scaling the platform with Airbnb's ambitions — You will define and drive the long-term roadmap for the finance accounting platform, ensuring it can scale to support new product lines, geographies, and business models. You will own prioritization across a high-volume platform funnel — balancing competing requests with clarity and structured decision-making — and continuously identify opportunities to optimize platform performance and reliability.

Bringing new products to life on the accounting platform — Every time Airbnb launches or evolves a product, there is an accounting story that needs to be told accurately and at scale. You will lead that effort end-to-end — from initial accounting impact assessment through solution design, engineering alignment, UAT, release coordination, and production normalization — translating complex product changes into well-designed accounting workflows that record product lifecycle financials to Oracle FAH GL.

Strengthening the financial foundation — You will help define and refine data pipeline monitoring and SOX controls, support month-end close processes, and partner with Finance stakeholders to automate manual operational workflows. Your work will directly improve the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of financial data that flows across Airbnb's Finance organization and beyond.

A Typical Day:

No two days look the same, but here’s a window into what you might be doing:

• Syncing with a cross-functional Product Manager from the Payments or Hotels team to understand an upcoming product change and assess its downstream accounting implications
• Reviewing a product spec with Data Engineering to align on the implementation approach for a new accounting workflow feeding Oracle FAH
• Running a UAT session with Revenue Controllership and Tax stakeholders to validate that a new product's financial lifecycle is being recorded accurately before it goes to production
• Pulling and analyzing ad hoc data using SQL to support a Finance or FP&A team working through a close question or business case
• Triaging and prioritizing new requests coming into the platform funnel — aligning stakeholders on sequencing and tradeoffs against the broader roadmap
• Reviewing data pipeline monitoring alerts and working with engineering to resolve a control gap before it impacts month-end close
• Leading a working session with Treasury or Collections to map out an opportunity to automate a high-touch manual process
• Prototyping an AI-assisted workflow to automate a recurring reconciliation, journal, or intake-triage task, and defining the validation and human-review controls around it
• Drafting a platform update for a senior Finance stakeholder that translates a complex technical change into clear business impact

Your Expertise:

Accounting & Finance Domain

• CPA, CMA, or equivalent accounting credential strongly preferred; Big 4 audit or controllership background a plus
• Subject matter expert in accounting principles and ASC 606 revenue recognition, with the ability to apply standards to complex, multi-product digital marketplace environments
• Proven experience implementing end-to-end accounting workflows across record-to-report and order-to-cash cycles, including SOX controls, reporting, and reconciliation
• Hands-on experience supporting high-volume, event-driven transactional workflows (bookings, payments, payouts, refunds, adjustments) on finance platforms in a marketplace or payments environment — ideally at a high-growth technology company

Platform & Product Management

• 6+ years (typically 10+) of experience in platform management, product management, finance systems with a strong business, finance and accounting data focus
• Demonstrated ability to own and manage a complex, multi-stakeholder platform roadmap with a high volume of competing priorities
• Proven track record of driving end-to-end delivery — from design and engineering through testing, release, and production normalization — in cross-functional environments
• Experience operating in Agile and continuous delivery models; able to move with pace without sacrificing rigor or quality

Technical Depth

• Actively uses AI tools to accelerate your own work and to automate repetitive finance workflows (journals, reconciliations, close tasks, intake triage), with a clear view of the validation and control implications before release
• Experience working with or alongside Oracle FAH, General Ledger, or equivalent ERP platforms
• Solid SQL skills and proven ability to work with large, complex datasets — including writing performant queries against partitioned tables, aggregating high-cardinality transactional data, and troubleshooting data anomalies at scale
• Familiarity with subledger to General Ledger data flows — understanding how product-level financial events are transformed, aggregated, and posted as journal entries, and how to validate accuracy across that chain
• Working fluency in modern data pipeline concepts (batch vs. streaming, partitioning, warehouse vs. lake) sufficient to engage Data Engineering on design tradeoffs; you don't need to build pipelines, but you need to reason about them
• Familiarity with data pipeline architecture and monitoring controls — including SLA management, data quality checks, alerting frameworks, and reconciliation workflows that ensure financial data integrity across the close cycle

Communication & Collaboration