Director, Corporate Accounting and Consolidation

About the team

About the role

Reporting to the Corporate Controller, you will lead a team of accounting professionals, including people leaders. You will set the organization's strategy while ensuring technical rigor, operational excellence, and strong partnerships across Finance.

You will:

• Lead an accurate, timely, and well-controlled close and consolidation process across Zillow's entities, ensuring consolidated financial statements comply with US GAAP and accounting policies.

• Own Accounting's preparation for and support of quarterly and annual external filings and related reviews and audits, ensuring timely, accurate deliverables.

• Provide Finance leadership with a clear, synthesized view of close status, financial results, and emerging risks, translating work across Accounting into timely insights that support decisions.

• Lead corporate accounting across centralized accounting functions including expense accruals, capitalized labor, cash and investments, leases, hedging, and fixed and intangible assets,  ensuring accurate reporting and consistent execution.

• Build and sustain deep technical accounting expertise across your organization, ensuring teams identify and assess issues, develop and document accounting positions, and inform and support policy development in partnership with Technical Accounting.

• Own intercompany accounting, consolidation, foreign currency, and transfer pricing, and lead cross-functional partnerships across Accounting, Tax, and Treasury to align strategy, execution, and compliance.

• Build Zillow's international accounting operations and manage third-party providers, ensuring sound entity-level accounting, local GAAP and statutory reporting, regulatory compliance, and independent audits.

• Serve as Accounting's functional owner for Workday Financials, FloQast, and other close tools. Set the roadmap, ensure usability, own Finance Administration for configurations and master data, and partner with Finance Technology on larger changes.

• Design and maintain efficient, scalable, and well-documented accounting processes that clearly identify risks and controls and help teams and leaders quickly understand the work, evaluate proposed changes, and assess scalability.

• Drive Finance Transformation across Accounting by proactively moving improvements to policies, processes, systems, automation, and AI from idea to implementation, reducing manual effort, freeing team capacity, and delivering measurable value with urgency and sound operational judgment.

• Partner across Finance and the business on complex transactions and strategic initiatives, integrating new activities, acquisitions, and organizational changes into accounting processes, systems, controls, and reporting.

• Cultivate an inclusive and effective organization through clear expectations, coaching, and growth opportunities, while balancing disciplined execution with the flexibility to pivot as priorities change.

Who you are

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, and a CPA license.

• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 5+ years leading accounting teams and developing people leaders.

• Experience leading close and consolidation in a complex, multinational organization, including intercompany and transfer pricing accounting.

• Deep technical and operational accounting expertise across corporate accounting and consolidation, including US GAAP, lease accounting (ASC 842), and foreign currency, with experience developing and documenting accounting positions.

• Success building scalable international accounting operations, including the processes and systems needed to support accurate entity-level accounting and reporting.

• Ownership of accounting processes and internal controls in a SOX-compliant environment.

• Experience as the business owner of an ERP or close platform, setting direction, owning functional configuration, and driving adoption across an accounting organization.

• A track record of moving system changes, process improvements, automation, and AI-enabled solutions from idea to implementation with urgency and sound judgment.

• Ability to move between executive-level synthesis and detailed technical work, delivering sound, timely analysis as priorities shift.

• A collaborative leadership approach that creates clarity, develops talent, and builds effective relationships with senior leaders, auditors, and business partners.

The following experience is helpful but not required:

• Public company accounting and familiarity with SEC reporting requirements.

• Direct experience with Workday Financials and/or FloQast.

• Technology, SaaS, digital marketplace, or another fast-changing business.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help people navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

How we work is a key part of that transformation. Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive—enabling us to move fast, stay connected and deliver on our people promise. 

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included onTIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.