Business Performance Improvement - Technical Accounting Senior Manager
About The Position
Protiviti’s Business Performance Improvement solution is seeking a Senior Manager for its technical accounting and financial reporting team. The role partners with clients to identify and manage technical accounting and financial reporting opportunities. It evaluates and analyzes US GAAP and/or IFRS accounting and SEC reporting positions for publicly traded and private companies, including private companies pursuing public registration, and supports registration filings such as S-1, S-3, and S-4. The Senior Manager develops strategies and solutions for complex business problems, builds lasting client relationships through high-quality delivery, and represents Protiviti in the business community. The role mentors and develops teams, oversees project work plans and deliverables, manages project activities within budget, and contributes to business development and client proposals. Work may take place in Protiviti offices and on client sites, with local or out-of-state travel depending on project and client needs. Protiviti uses a hybrid workplace model combining in-person and remote work; the ratio varies by client, project, team, and business factors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as Accounting or Finance.
- At least 7 years of relevant work experience across a mix of consulting, financial reporting, technical accounting, internal audit, or attestation/assurance.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.
- Experience conducting technical accounting research, developing work plans, and preparing client-facing reports, schedules, position papers, and accounting or SEC reporting guidance.
- Experience with financial reporting, financial close, consolidations, and financial statement preparation.
- Experience with process improvement in order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, hire-to-retire, and record-to-report processes.
- Experience with accounting pronouncement transitions, reconciliations, or restatements.
- Experience with public company readiness and SEC reporting requirements.
- Experience identifying client business issues and needs, validating analysis, and developing recommendations.
- Experience in shared services or global business services design and implementation.
- Experience evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data.
- Experience building business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
- Experience pursuing business development opportunities and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
- Experience leading and managing teams and project activities to meet deliverables and budget.
- Ability to build client relationships and provide timely, high-quality service.
Nice To Haves
- CPA license strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, analyze, and document US GAAP and/or IFRS accounting and SEC reporting positions for public and private companies.
- Prepare technical accounting position papers and accounting and SEC reporting guidance.
- Research technical accounting issues using online research tools and publicly available information; develop work plans and prepare reports and schedules summarizing findings.
- Identify business risks, technical problems, and opportunities to improve clients’ technical accounting, financial reporting processes, and disclosures.
- Support financial reporting, financial close, consolidations, and financial statement preparation.
- Support process improvement across order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, hire-to-retire, and record-to-report processes.
- Support accounting pronouncement transitions, reconciliations, and restatements, including areas such as lease accounting, revenue recognition, and CECL.
- Support public company readiness and SEC reporting requirements.
- Identify client business issues and needs, validate analysis, and develop recommendations in the context of client engagements.
- Support the design and implementation of shared services and global business services.
- Evaluate, synthesize, organize, and interpret data and information.
- Build and cultivate client relationships and a professional network, including relationships with senior executives.
- Pursue business development opportunities and identify and implement strategies to obtain new work and clientele.
- Manage and lead teams to ensure project activities and deliverables are completed within budget.
- Mentor team members and provide performance development; participate in creating and rolling out technical accounting training.
- Contribute to client proposals and strategies to win new business, and identify opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources.
- Promote a positive team culture and open communication among engagement team members.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Life and accident insurance
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility assistance
- Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks
- Short- and long-term disability
- Company 401(k) savings and investment plan with a 50% employer match on the first 6% of employee contributions
- Choice Time Off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time; new hires receive up to 20 days per calendar year
- Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year
- Annual bonus plan offering eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
