Senior Accountant - Creative Financial Staffing
Boston, MA
About the Job
Creative Financial Staffing has partnered with a Fortune 500 Global management and information technology organization to identify a Senior/Manager of Accounting Policy to join their team. This is a remote opportunity with limited travel to the corporate HQ's.
Why the Senior/Manager of Accounting Policy opportunity?
- The Company: 100+-year-old global publicly-traded organization whose core business is to provide consulting, analysis, and engineering services to public and private sector organizations and nonprofits.
- Growth: Fast-growing organization with consistent profitability. Over the past 4 years, the company's net income grew by 100%. They are looking to double the revenue of the organization in the next decade.
- Exposure: The Senior/Manager of Accounting Policy will regularly interact with investor relations, treasury, legal, financial planning, and other pillars within finance. There is also routine visibility to various members of the firm's senior leadership team.
- Opportunity: Unlimited growth opportunity both within Accounting Policy and throughout the global Accounting/Finance Team
Responsibilities for the Senior/Manager of Accounting Policy include but are not limited to:
- Provide accounting guidance on complex transactions including but not limited to revenue recognition, business combination, collaborations, fixed assets, impairment, debt and equity financing, stock compensation, and leases
- Lead the technical accounting research and prepare appropriate white papers to document the proper accounting treatment for the significant new contracts
- Stay abreast of existing and emerging financial accounting and reporting principles, assess the applicability and develop action plans for adoption when needed
- Support due diligence and integration of accounting functions associated with acquisitions.
- Interact with investor relations, treasury, legal, financial planning, and external auditors on highly technical and complex accounting areas.
- Assist in the review of journal entries and ASC 606 workbooks during the monthly and annually closings
- Provide significant support of the annual financial statement audit, including oversight of third-party subject matter experts and work with external Big 4 audit firm
- Provide assistance in establishing effective financial controls over the evaluation and application of accounting literature to complex transactions
Qualifications:
- BA or BS degree in Accounting or Finance; MA, MS, or MBA degree a plus
- CPA required
- 6+ years of financial statement audit and reporting experience at a public accounting firm and/or a large, multi-national public company, including 2 years at a manager level or above.
- In-depth knowledge of US GAAP, extensive audit experience, and broad and comprehensive understanding of key functional areas relevant to the business.
Source : Creative Financial Staffing