Senior Director, Corporate Accounting-Chicago Hybrid - Buckingham Search

Description

Job Description

Job Description

Our client is a globally recognized e-commerce powerhouse looking for a Senior Director of Corporate Accounting

Their transformation strategy, combined with a strong brand, customer base, and marketplace expertise, ensures they are constantly adapting to the evolving market while delivering value to both their customers and partners.

In this role, you will be the go-to person for assessing the accounting of material transactions across the company and the preparation, review, submission, and distribution of financial reports.

You will also work closely with the Corporate M&A, Finance, and Treasury teams to understand the accounting implications of terms and conditions of investments and business combination arrangements, research technical accounting issues, and estimate significant reserves for the company.

Responsibilities:

You will work closely with the Corporate M&A, Finance and Treasury teams on understanding accounting implications of terms and conditions of investments and business combination arrangements, along with other significant transactions and initiatives across the Company.

Research technical accounting issues to ensure compliance with Company policy and GAAP guidance on various areas including goodwill, investments, leases, share-based compensation, revenue recognition, gross versus net revenue presentation, foreign currency and other matters and prepare related white-paper documentation.

Facilitate/coordinate

the process of implementing new standards and accounting changes to ensure the Company is prepared to comply at the necessary time.

Managing preparation, review, submission and distribution of financial reports required by governmental and regulatory agencies, such as US SEC 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K.

Estimation of significant reserves for the Company (e.g. Legal, Refunds and Variable Consideration under ASC 606), including working with the necessary teams to gather operational data to execute the models, and verify that the methodology used in the models are appropriate for new business initiatives and practices
Assist with ad-hoc questions raised from the business and the relevant accounting implications.

Lead and grow others; remain aware of each person's career goals; hold development discussions; and provide meaningful tasks and assignments to promote development.

Actively managing the team workload, including ensuring continuous process improvement and simplification.
Liaising with auditors as part of the financial reporting processes.
Ensuring adherence with SOX requirements.

May draft or work with investor relations management to prepare sales and earnings press releases, reports for securities analysts, investors and industry groups.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting and CPA
15+ years of accounting experience
7+ years of people management experience
Direct experience overseeing compliance efforts with the preparation, review, submission and distribution of financial reports required by governmental and regulatory agencies, such as US SEC 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K
Strong background in technical accounting research and analysis
Ability to review and interpret new and proposed accounting regulations
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Sound understanding of US GAAP
You have the ability to multi-task and lead several projects
Detail oriented with a penchant for preparing meticulously accurate work
You're enthusiastic, adaptable, and see challenges as an opportunity to grow
You thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment
They also offer amazing perks like employee stock purchase plans, super competitive compensation packages, 401K matching, wellness programs, unlimited PTO, and more

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