Senior Manager, Compliance – Statutory Compliance & Audit

Job Description

Senior Manager, Accounting | New Relic

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at New Relic, located in Bangalore, India (Karnataka). New Relic builds an intelligent platform that empowers companies in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. This role is pivotal and highly strategic within New Relic’s global finance organization, focusing on managing statutory financial reporting and audit processes end-to-end to ensure a seamless, high-integrity data flow for international tax return filings. You will transform fragmented processes into a world-class in-house compliance function.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid Bangalore, India (Karnataka)

• Team: Integrated Tax and Compliance team, reporting directly to the Director, Global Tax & Compliance
• Mission: Stabilize current global audit cycles and transition statutory financial statement preparation to an in-house delivery model.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Coupa, Workday

What You’ll Actually Do
• Collaborate Turnaround: Partner closely with the Director of Global Tax & Compliance to review existing process diagnoses and co-design tactical action plans.
• Workflow Improvement: Challenge current ideas and introduce best-in-class methodologies to rebuild global audit workflows and streamline interactions.
• Strategic In-Housing: Define the strategic roadmap to transition statutory financial statement preparation from external service providers to an in-house delivery model.
• Audit Management: Lead and coordinate statutory audits across over 15 international jurisdictions, acting as the primary point of contact for external auditors.
• Technical Resolution: Act as the lead problem solver for complex accounting and reporting questions that arise during local statutory audits.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline with 10+ years of progressive accounting and compliance leadership experience.
• Experience: Deep experience managing complex statutory audits and financial statement preparations across APAC and EMEA jurisdictions, ideally spanning a mix of Big 4/public accounting and multinational corporate environments.
• Skills: Rigorous project management with outstanding stakeholder management, a builder’s mindset for creating order out of operational chaos, a strong collaborative spirit, and a proven track record of turning around delayed audit cycles.
• Bonus: Professional certification (CA or CPA), experience in both a major public accounting firm and a fast-growth corporate SaaS environment, or direct experience managing India statutory financial statements and audits.