Director of Technical Accounting
About The Position
CohnReznick is hiring a Director of Technical Accounting for its Finance team. This hybrid position is expected to involve in-person collaboration at an office, encouraged on average three days per week, with the specific cadence determined by the team. The Director reports to the CAO and will build and lead the firm’s Technical Accounting team, operating alongside the Core Accounting team led by the Corporate Controller. The team ensures that complex accounting treatments are appropriate, documented, GAAP-compliant, and audit-ready. The initial priority is ASC 606 revenue recognition: the Director will design the firm’s approach, operationalize an interim solution developed with external consultants, and represent Finance in selecting and implementing a new professional services automation (PSA) platform. The Director will own final technical accounting positions and documentation, direct external consultants on purchase accounting and other technical matters, and address additional technical areas and emerging business needs as the revenue process matures. The role also partners with the CAO, Controller, regional controllers, engagement leaders, legal, corporate development, treasury, auditors, and external advisors. It leads technical accounting analysis, audit readiness, complex disclosure work, and development of the Technical Accounting Manager. Compensation includes a discretionary performance bonus, generous paid time off, expanded parental benefits, and access to learning and development platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Active CPA license required.
- 12+ years of technical accounting and audit experience.
- Big 4 or national firm foundation at Senior Manager or experienced Manager level or above.
- Deep ASC 606 expertise, including designing revenue approaches, drafting revenue memoranda, and resolving audit findings.
- ASC 805 purchase accounting experience, including work with valuation specialists.
- Track record directing external advisors and leading complex audits.
- Experience in PE-backed, multi-entity organizations.
- Strong technical writing and ability to communicate GAAP issues clearly to the CAO, PE sponsor, and auditors.
- Ability to collaborate across regional, operational, and external stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Professional services revenue experience, including milestone, percent-of-completion, labor-rate billing, and unbilled/WIP arrangements.
- Familiarity with SAP.
- Experience implementing a PSA or revenue system.
Responsibilities
- Design the firm’s ASC 606 revenue recognition approach with Accordion and regional controllers, reflecting how engagements are sold, staffed, and billed across offices.
- Own final revenue recognition positions, policies, and technical accounting memoranda; remediate audit findings and design judgmental controls over revenue.
- Operationalize the interim ASC 606 solution and lead the transition to the new PSA platform after implementation.
- Represent Finance in evaluating, selecting, and implementing the new PSA platform, ensuring accounting, reporting, and compliance needs are addressed.
- Review complex client engagements involving variable and contingent fees, multiple performance obligations, time-and-materials and fixed-fee arrangements, and contract modifications.
- Deliver revenue schedules, deferred revenue and unbilled work-in-process reconciliation logic, and journal-entry templates to Core Accounting for execution.
- Scope, direct, and review external consultants and technical accounting advisors while retaining ownership of final conclusions.
- Lead technical accounting matters involving ASC 805, ASC 842, debt and equity transactions, ASC 718, and variable-interest-entity and consolidation considerations.
- Author or approve audit-ready technical accounting memoranda supported by source documents and general-ledger-tied schedules; maintain the accounting policy manual and assess new standards.
- Serve as technical counterpart to auditor engagement and national office teams, and pre-clear significant positions before period-end.
- Coordinate audit readiness and execution with the Controller through a shared PBC tracker and issues log, and deliver technical PBC sections.
- Direct drafting of complex footnote disclosures covering revenue, business combinations, goodwill and intangibles, leases, debt, equity, and share-based compensation.
- Lead quarterly audit-readiness reviews with the CAO and Controller.
- Hand off memoranda, schedules, and journal-entry templates to Core Accounting; Technical Accounting designs while Core Accounting posts and reconciles.
- Operate an intake process for engagement leaders, regional controllers, legal, corporate development, and treasury to identify non-standard contracts and transactions early.
- Support Core Accounting’s internal, PE sponsor, and lender reporting with technical positions and covenant-definition interpretation.
- Lead and develop the Technical Accounting Manager, and set and reprioritize the technical agenda with the CAO as business needs evolve.
Benefits
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Generous paid time off
- Expanded and inclusive parental benefits
- Learning and development platforms
- Paid time off for employees to volunteer
- Flexible work environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
