Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting Job at Virtual in La Jolla

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About the Company:  Publicly Traded SaaS Company
Title: Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting
 
Location: San Diego - Hybrid
 
Salary: $130k-175k (DOE) + Bonus + RSUs
 
Description: This leader is primarily responsible for ensuring the accounting and operations functions are working accurately, efficiently, aligned to our policies. This person will lead the team that performs the accounting for general liabilities, including AP accruals, contingencies, vendor rebates, and debt. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills with the ability to organize self and team to deliver against critical objectives and priorities. They will have the ability to collaborate and lead across multiple functions and roles. This leader will be able to navigate difficult issues successfully with the ability to drive issues through to resolution and validation.
 
Responsibilities:

• Lead the month-end close process to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Understand the end-to-end operational, financial, and systemic environment and key upstream and downstream processes that drive liability accruals, including related to purchase order activity, company credit card activity, contingencies, vendor rebates, and debt.
• Enforce the Company's policies related to Service Purchase Order accrual accounting.
• Exercise good judgment in managing E2E accounting and operational risk with appropriate transparency.
• Ensure proper oversight of activities of the staff and develop the team to deliver results along with their own personal leadership growth.
• Clearly articulate point of view regarding accounting issues and work with stakeholders to resolve
• Implement and maintain the required process and internal control environment and perform control procedures to ensure compliance with Company policy.
• Streamline systems and reporting tools to ensure efficient and accurate recording and proper classification of liabilities. Drive the development of strategies to improve accounting operations effectiveness, including the development and execution of organizational, process and system changes.
• Stay current on evolving Accounting Standards pronouncements and updates under prevailing regulatory bodies (FASB, SEC), incorporating into current Company policy as necessary.
• Anticipate risk, new/changed systems, process and accounting literature/regulations, assessing impact on current/future operations and overall environment

 
 
Qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree in Accounting/Finance with minimum of 8 years’ post-graduate experience, or equivalent work experience. CPA required. MBA highly desirable.
• Software or SaaS industry experience a plus. Two or more years of public company audit experience.
• Experience managing teams with varying levels of experience. Ability to lead a team in a dynamic environment, managing multiple and ever-changing priorities, while consistently meeting tight deadlines.
• Working knowledge of Oracle R12, Blackline and Business Objects a plus.