Accounting Manager, Systems and Optimization

About Zillow

Zillow Group’s Close and Consolidations Accounting team plays a critical role in delivering accuracy, consistency, and operational excellence across the company’s financial close. In addition to executing core close responsibilities, the team is focused on building scalable, tech-enabled processes that improve efficiency and reduce manual effort. This role will be central to advancing that mission.

About the role

We are seeking an Accounting Manager – Systems and Optimization to serve as the functional owner of the systems and tools that power Zillow’s accounting close. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with our Finance Technology team—who owns technical administration—while guiding the strategic direction, configuration oversight, and overall effectiveness of these platforms. You’ll play a key role in shaping how we can enable a faster, more scalable, and insight-driven close process through automation, data, and continuous improvement.

You Will:

Functional Leadership & Change Management

• Serve as Accounting’s primary functional representative to Finance Technology for Workday and other close-enablement tools.
• Contribute to roadmap planning by surfacing evolving business needs and helping prioritize system enhancements that align with Accounting’s goals.
• Design, implement, and deliver training, documentation, and change communications to empower Accounting team members and strengthen system proficiency and adoption.

System Governance & Administration

• Own accounting-specific application configurations, process logic, data governance, and related change management activities such as ticketing, testing and review.
• Partner with Finance Technology on large-scale change management initiatives, such as Workday releases—assessing impact, performing testing, and coordinating deployment and communication across Accounting teams.
• Apply strong working knowledge of security roles, segregation of duties, and sensitive system access to inform approval of accounting-related security changes and execution of quarterly user access reviews.

Process Optimization & Close Acceleration

• Partner with Accounting teams and analyze operating metrics to understand how tools are being used, identifying opportunities to improve workflows and drive efficiency.
• Identify and drive automation and AI-powered solutions that reduce effort, enhance accuracy, and support scalable workflows.
• Oversee and continuously optimize Workday’s consolidation and foreign currency processes, including org structure, entity configurations, and translation logic.

Data Integrity & Reporting Enablement

• Maintain expertise on Workday accounting data structures and how they support downstream financial reporting and analytics.