Technical Accounting Consultant

About the role

You will deliver technical accounting guidance and support to clients through complex transactions and business changes. Our finance and accounting consultants combine their functional finance expertise and project management capabilities with their other broad skills and experiences in accounting, process reengineering, compliance, and systems to help clients drive business change.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical accounting guidance and support to clients through complex transactions and business changes
• Perform technical research and ensure proper GAAP accounting treatment is performed for all transactions
• Draft and review complex sets of financial statements with disclosures
• Work with cross-functional teams to perform gap analysis of current and future state, develop business requirements and assist in the solution design to enable work streams that comply with newly issued accounting pronouncements
• Absess the impact of new accounting pronouncements on current policies and standards, author memos and accounting policy documents to address the impact from any change in accounting requirements
• Work closely with the accounting and finance teams in addressing day-to-day business activities and associated accounting implications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree of Finance or Accounting required
• MBA and/or CPA preferred
• 8-plus years of experience in an external reporting or technical accounting role with a large multinational corporation and/or Big Four or large regional accounting firm
• Strong understanding of FASB, US GAAP, and SEC rules and regulations
• Excellent consulting, influencing, and negotiation skills with the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization with a strong attention to detail

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Finance or Accounting required
• MBA and/or CPA preferred
• 8-plus years of experience in an external reporting or technical accounting role with a large multinational corporation and/or Big Four or large regional accounting firm
• Strong understanding of FASB, US GAAP, and SEC rules and regulations
• Excellent consulting, influencing, and negotiation skills with the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization with a strong attention to detail

Skills

• Technical accounting guidance and support
• Technical research and GAAP accounting treatment
• Drafting and reviewing financial statements
• Gap analysis and business requirements development
• Impact assessment of new accounting pronouncements
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Benefits

• Variety of workplace arrangements including hybrid, remote, onsite
• Compensation commensurate with employee qualifications, experience, and other factors including geographic location, market, and operational factors
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, Disability insurance, 401(k) savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase plan, Professional development program, Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required)

Pay

Compensation commensurate with employee qualifications, experience, and other factors including geographic location, market, and operational factors.

Schedule

Variety of workplace arrangements including hybrid, remote, onsite.