Senior Manager, Finance Data and AI

GAQ426R192 About the Role 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 & 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. 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. What You Will Do: • 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 • 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 • 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 • Build and maintain dashboards and reporting for monthly, quarterly, and executive-level reporting, translating financial data into decision-ready insight for Finance leadership and…