Sr Accountant

About the role

The Senior Assistant Financial Controller supports the Finance Controller in the Corporate Accounting team in further supporting the members of the Board of Directors with the fiduciary responsibility for compliance and protecting the interests of Oracle Corporation (Oracle) and its legal entities that are managed by Corporate Accounting.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly and quarterly close cycles, ensuring that US GAAP financial reporting is performed timely, in accordance with corporate close guidelines, consolidating all Oracle entities, preparing journal entries, reviewing income statement activity and balance sheet reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial statements.
• Develop and drive the process of intercompany reconciliation between Oracle legal entities.
• Manage accounting entries for various prevailing integration reorganizations of Oracle companies.
• Review the account reconciliations of all the corporate entities for reasonableness and appropriateness.
• Prepare Balance Sheet and P&L flux analysis of the assigned Corporate legal entities.
• Support the Financial Controllers in the regions with day-to-day activities to ensure compliance with Oracle’s policies and US GAAP reporting standards.
• Prepare quarterly schedules for SEC 10Q/10K filings by collaborating with Financial Controllers globally.
• Support the External Reporting team in preparing the quarterly reports.
• Collaborate with Global Finance Organizations including, Global Business Finance, Tax, Treasury and Legal.
• Responsibility for the preparation and audit management of the statutory financial statements for assigned Corporate legal entities.
• Work closely with external local auditors to get the audit completed within statutory timelines in Ireland and Switzerland.
• Participate in Global & Regional strategic initiatives that optimize and enhance the operations of the Chief Accounting Officer organization.
• Ability to research past transactions and interpret past events and future treatment.
• Support Internal Audit and SOX PMO on the assessment of internal controls, implementing recommendations, reinforcing controls for deficiency and maintaining updated documentation on local processes.
• Acts as a reference for team members, providing direction and mentoring to other members of the organization.
• Collaboration with Tax organization on tax authority information requests and audits.
• Implement best practice system processes and controls for the Corporation and legal entities to comply with all internal and external financial reporting obligations.

Qualifications

• Professional Accounting Qualification, CPA or equivalent is required.
• BS in Accounting / BS in Business with major in Accounting. MBA is a plus.
• Between 3-5 years of relevant progressive experience in the technology sector with multinational companies/Fortune 500, or public accounting experience in a top 10 accounting firm.
• Experience in corporate accounting, consolidation process and intercompany preferred.
• Good understanding across the breadth of finance responsibilities including, accounting, revenue recognition, treasury, tax, business practices, etc.
• Proficient user in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge and experience with US GAAP accounting, finance and tax regulations.
• Knowledge and experience of ASC 830 (formerly known as SFAS 52).
• Knowledge and experience of ERP systems.
• Experience in Oracle Financials and/or other ERP solutions is an advantage.
• Project Management capabilities – the ability to plan, initiate, monitor and implement projects within a team.

Skills and Attributes

• A proactive self-starter with a desire to learn, innovative inquisitive mindset and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Dynamic, innovative & problem resolution focused, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Results oriented, ability to multi-task and can thrive in a deadline driven environment.
• Ability to immerse oneself to understand problems and propose solutions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills to interact with various levels of management.
• Ability to effectively work in a multi-location organization and adapt to different cultures.
• Ability to identify and execute operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives to improve resource optimization.
• Preference to be available to work Pacific Time.