What would I be doing?
Key Responsibilities
- Lead purchase order and invoice-related accounting activities, including reviewing accruals, validating supporting documentation, and ensuring transactions follow company policy, and internal-control requirements.
- Prepare, review, and post complex journal entries and monthly accruals for corporate activities, including intercompany, legal reserves, facilities, cash, restructuring, prepaids, and other adjustments.
- Own assigned BlackLine reconciliations, ensuring timely certification, complete support, appropriate review evidence, and resolution of reconciling items.
- Perform balance sheet and P&L variance analysis and prepare explanations for corporate flux reporting and management review.
- Liaise with the offshore team to review journal entries and reconciliation quality, provide accounting guidance, and escalate issues or control gaps.
- Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Payroll, and other stakeholders to validate source data and ensure appropriate accounting treatment under U.S. GAAP and company policy.
- Support monthly and quarterly close activities, including close checklists, reporting packages, recurring documentation, and audit support.
- Maintain compliance with internal accounting policies, SOX requirements, and established process controls; identify risks, deficiencies, and remediation opportunities.
- Improve close procedures, reconciliation standards, and recurring accounting processes.
- Support ERP implementation, optimization, and transformation initiatives, including requirements gathering, testing, process design, and post-implementation support.
- Contribute to cross-functional initiatives that improve accounting processes, reporting, internal controls, and operational efficiency.
What would make me qualified?
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or CPA-track preferred.
- 4+ years of progressive accounting, financial reporting, audit, or public accounting experience.
- Experience in a publicly traded company, multinational organization, or Big 4/public accounting environment preferred.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, month-end close, reconciliations, financial statement analysis, SOX compliance, and internal controls.
- Strong analytical judgment, communication, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Advanced Excel skills, high attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.