Senior Technical Accountant

About the role

We are seeking a highly analytical, detail-oriented Senior Technical Accountant to play a pivotal role on our Technical Accounting team during a period of rapid growth and increasing transactional complexity.

Responsibilities

• Research, interpret, and conclude on complex and judgmental accounting matters, authoring clear, well-supported technical accounting memoranda that document the facts, alternatives considered, and basis for conclusions in accordance with applicable accounting standards.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, including accounting due diligence, purchase price allocation and valuation review, opening balance sheet procedures, and drafting the related technical accounting positions under ASC 805.
• Lead the annual impairment assessments for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangibles (ASC 350) and long-lived and finite-lived assets (ASC 360), including triggering-event analysis and documentation of conclusions.
• Audit and review high-volume service and vendor contracts to identify and assess their technical accounting implications, evaluating terms that may affect revenue recognition, lease identification and classification, cost capitalization, embedded derivatives, and other accounting conclusions, and documenting the appropriate accounting treatment for each.
• Assist with the month-end close process, primarily assisting with leases and stock-based compensation expense.
• Participate in Anduril’s IPO readiness process, establishing reporting policies aligned to public company standards for a potential public offering in the future.
• Closely partner with other departments, including Tax, Treasury, Legal, and Operations to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial information.
• Establish, document, and maintain key accounting and business policies, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field
• Active CPA required
• 3+ years of technical accounting experience under US GAAP, including public accounting/audit experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Big 4 or large regional public accounting experience serving technology, aerospace/defense, or high-growth clients
• Experience supporting IPO readiness or working within a public company
• Working knowledge of, or demonstrated exposure to, IFRS and the ability to analyze differences between US GAAP and IFRS
• Experience reviewing high volumes of commercial contracts and translating contractual terms into accounting conclusions
• Strong written communication skills, with a track record of authoring technical accounting memoranda relied upon by auditors and management
• Exceptional problem-solving ability and intellectual curiosity, with a proven capacity to navigate ambiguity and drive issues to resolution independently with minimal direction
• Demonstrated experience applying ASC 606, ASC 718, ASC 805, and ASC 842, among other standards