Senior Manager, Finance Data and AI

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><strong>GAQ426R192</strong></p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>As Senior Manager, Finance Data and AI, you will lead the team that owns the data foundations, finance semantic layer, financial reporting, and AI-enabled analytics that power Databricks' Finance and Accounting organization. You will report to the Senior Director, Finance Data, AI &amp; Strategy, and serve as the domain and technical anchor for a team that turns financial operations into trusted, well-governed data and reporting. This individual is expected to be based in Bengaluru.</p> <p>This is a high-impact role at the intersection of finance and accounting domain expertise and modern BI/analytics capability. It is less about deep distributed-systems engineering, and more about deeply understanding how Finance and Accounting operate (close, reconciliations, revenue recognition, chart of accounts) and building a trusted data foundations on top of the Databricks platform and Finance DataLake that Finance and Accounting can rely on every day.</p> <p><strong>What You Will Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Orchestrate jobs using Databricks Jobs and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, with built-in data validation and reconciliations, to ensure Finance and Accounting can trust the data behind every report</li> <li>Own and evolve the Finance semantic layer: metric definitions, business logic, and data models that ensure a single source of truth for financial reporting across Finance, Accounting, and the broader business</li> <li>Partner closely with Accounting during month-end and quarter-end close, providing hands-on support to ensure reporting data is accurate, timely, and reconciled, and driving timely resolution of data-related issues</li> <li>Build and maintain dashboards and reporting for monthly, quarterly, and executive-level reporting, translating financial data into decision-ready insight for Finance leadership and the CFO organization</li> <li>Identify, scope, and deliver