About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

Job Summary

We’re seeking a strategic, results-driven SVP of Accounting and Tax to lead our global accounting function. This is an exceptional opportunity to drive all aspects of accounting and financial reporting in a dynamic and growing company. You’ll lead a talented global team to set the vision and execution roadmap for our accounting strategy, ensuring compliance, transparency, and operational excellence. As a member of the Finance leadership team, you’ll partner cross-functionally to support and scale our operations. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about building high-performing teams, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide executive leadership for all global accounting and tax functions, including general ledger, technical accounting, consolidations, revenue recognition, accounts payable/receivable and tax. This role includes leadership of both US and global entity financial reporting as well as operational oversight for global payroll.

• Ensure timely and accurate preparation and all financial statements in compliance with U.S. GAAP.

• Serve as the primary interface to our external auditors and ensure successful and timely audit completion. Act as a key participant in quarterly Audit Committee meetings and drive the preparation of materials.

• Lead and oversee global internal control strategies, adherence and operational execution in partnership with key cross functional leaders.

• Oversee technical accounting efforts, including researching and implementing new accounting standards and writing technical memos, as well as global tax activities including transfer pricing, tax filing activity and position balances.

• Partner cross functionally and with accounting leadership to drive Revenue Ops activities for global Sales.

• Provide strategic guidance to executive leadership on complex accounting issues, business transactions (e.g., M&A, financing), and financial risk management.

• Build and manage a high-performing accounting organization to scale with company growth.

• Drive continuous improvement of accounting systems, processes, and policies to support scalability, compliance, and operational excellence.

• Partner cross-functionally with FP&A, Tax, Legal, and Operations teams to ensure alignment across all financial reporting and compliance efforts.

• Stay current on emerging accounting and regulatory issues, and proactively assess their impact on the business.

What You’ll Need:

• Demonstrated success in leading a complex, global accounting and tax function as well as order to cash operations, ideally in a growth oriented software environment.

• Deep expertise in U.S. GAAP, internal controls as well as a track record of driving scale in an accounting and tax function.

• Combination of public and private company experience preferred.

• Proven ability to influence at the executive level and lead cross-functional initiatives with clarity and strategic insight.

• Excellent verbal and communication skills, proven business acumen.

• Passion for operational excellence, data integrity, and building inclusive, high-performing teams

• Strong work ethic with customer-first approach, balancing a sense of urgency with thoughtful execution.

• Demonstrated experience in navigating the accounting and tax implications of capital markets transactions.

• CPA certification and strong technical accounting foundation required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree strongly preferred.

Delinea Culture & Benefits:

Why work at Delinea?

• We’re passionate problem-solvers doing our part to make the world a safer place.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG—Spirited – Trust – Respect – Ownership – Nimble – Global – and guide our behaviors and success. We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful equity and bonus program, and excellent benefits, including a full suite of medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous discretionary time off (DTO), and paid company holidays. We support all families with paid leave for new birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster-to-adopt primary caregivers.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.