The Technical Accounting Manager will work within the Global Controllership function with a series of responsibilities.
Job Summary
- Provide technical accounting support for our Accenture business teams.
- Support Senior Managers within the U. S. GAAP Technical Accounting Team, CFO, Controller, Assistant Controller and Director of Accounting Policy to help ensure consistent application and compliance with Accenture accounting policies.
- Complete quarterly financial reporting for SEC filings and external reporting purposes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor and respond to general technical accounting/Policy inquiries submitted to the U.S. GAAP team by Finance employees via the ServiceNow platform. Conduct technical accounting research as needed.
- Assist Senior Managers within the technical accounting team to conduct accounting research and compliance activities for transaction/situation and provide feedback and advice on appropriate accounting treatment
- Lead the process for quarterly internal and external reporting of the Company’s third-party indemnifications and guarantees, including working with the various groups within Finance to prepare detailed and summary schedules for the Company’s external auditors and its’ CFO.
- Support the Company’s year-end audit by preparing analyses for external auditors, including the annual embedded derivative. Assist external auditors and Senior Managers within the technical accounting team, during quarterly review and annual audit process.
- Manage the functionality of the ServiceNow platform, including fostering ideas and opportunities for automation, simplification and analytics.
- Act as internal controls liaison for Global Controllership to ensure quarterly control testing and assessments are performed on a timely basis.
- Assist the Technical Accounting team with the preparation, development and/or delivery of U.S. GAAP and Policy training.
Lead/participate in other special projects or assist other groups within Global Controllership as needed. Including fostering ideas and opportunities to automate quarterly processes through AI, excel macros etc
Basic Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree (accounting or finance preferred)
- CPA, Chartered Accountancy or like designation required
- Mixture of public accounting (Big Four preferred), industry experience that includes SEC reporting or technical accounting responsibilities (not necessarily in services industry), and/or Accenture experience
Additional Preferred Skill Requirements:
- 5+ years of Finance experience, including public accounting experience or industry experience that includes accounting responsibilities such as technical accounting research or SEC reporting
Professional Skill Requirements:
- Revenue Recognition (Consulting and Managed Services);
- U.S. GAAP Income Statement and Balance Sheet;
- SEC Requirements;
- Inventory & Receivables Management;
- Financial Statement
- Deal Shaping
- Financial Analysis;
- Business Acumen;
- Project Management;
- Decision Making;
- Facilitation;
- Influence;
- Initiative and Anticipation;
- Innovation;
- Issues Identification Analysis & Solving;
- Knowledge Sharing;
- Oral and Written Communications;
- Personal Credibility;
- Project Management;
- Developing & Sustaining Relationships;
- Teamwork and Collaboration
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com
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