Director - Global Technical Controllership

About the role

The Director, Global Technical Controllership, will report to the Senior Director, Global Technical Controllership, and may involve direct or indirect supervision of other team members. The primary responsibilities include:

• Manage corporate and business unit-related financial advisory matters and related business processes.
• Direct research of accounting issues, document conclusions in formal memos and white papers, and prepare functional endorsements of business development transactions to ensure compliance with internal corporate guidelines and accounting literature.
• Partner with corporate departments, business units, and business development teams to support activities by providing financial advisory and evaluation of alternative deal structures for investments, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic planning, or other alliance transactions and their financial statement impact on the company.
• Provide financial advisory support to business units in connection with the implementation of various changes in accounting policies, procedures, and adoption of new accounting standards; monitor and analyze proposed accounting rule changes; provide input into comment and preclearance letters to regulatory agencies about those proposals; assist in the implementation of new requirements.
• Develop and present complex accounting matters/conclusions to company management and respond to inquiries from senior management (CFO, Corporate Controller, Treasurer, Vice President, Business Unit Controller) on potential accounting impacts of proposed transactions.
• Ensure effective, clear, and timely communications to aid in enabling appropriate execution of US GAAP accounting rules and Company policies.
• External reporting support—responsible for certain areas of the 10-Q/10-K filings.
• Maintain and execute adequate internal controls for responsibilities and update 404 narratives, as needed.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge and meet continuing professional education requirements by attending educational workshops and conferences.
• Liaise with external auditors on complex business development transactions, provide quarterly updates, and achieve alignment on accounting.
• Participate in due diligence process and highlight accounting issues and key risks and various other ad-hoc projects or initiatives.
• Be able to manage multiple projects and initiatives at one time, prioritize, and deliver results within frequently condensed timelines.

Responsibilities

Manage corporate and business unit-related financial advisory matters and related business processes. Sample matters include, but are not limited to, investments, derivatives and hedging, business combination and divestures, VIE/consolidation/equity method analyses, revenue recognition, leases, restructuring, debt, inventory accounting, goodwill, share-based payment awards and long-lived assets impairment analysis, fair value assessments including intangible valuations and exposure to tax accounting matters.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirements: 10+ years of professional work experience including 6+ years managerial experience, CPA required, proficient in US GAAP, strong verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills and attention to detail, strong ability to influence and provide strategic recommendations, prior experience managing multiple projects, competing priorities, and short deadlines, proven leadership experience to drive prompt resolution of technical issues, communication of those issues, and process improvement, undergraduate degree in accounting or related field or equivalent experience; advanced degree in Finance or Accounting is strongly preferred.