Lead, Accounting Consolidations

IonQ•College Park, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

IonQ is seeking a Lead Accountant to join its US Accounting Team. This hands-on, player-coach role owns the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation of the company’s growing portfolio of domestic and international legal entities. The role leads the consolidated close and prepares consolidated financial results while building scalable processes, systems, and controls to support acquired businesses and an accelerated public-company timeline. The position requires technical expertise in consolidation, foreign currency translation, and business combination accounting, along with experience using consolidation systems and improving close efficiency. It supports consolidated financial reporting, SEC filings, earnings materials, and audit activities, and works with entity controllers, finance teams across geographies, shared services, FP&A, SEC Reporting, and external auditors. The role is hybrid in College Park, Maryland, with up to 10% domestic or international travel.

Requirements

BS/BA in Accounting or Finance.
At least 6 years of progressive accounting experience, including consolidation accounting in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
Hands-on experience owning or leading a consolidated monthly and quarterly close.
Strong understanding of US GAAP, including consolidation (ASC 810), foreign currency (ASC 830), and business combinations (ASC 805).
Experience designing and operating internal controls in a SOX or SOX-readiness environment.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including working with large data sets and building repeatable analyses.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to coordinate deadlines and requirements with finance teams across geographies.
Detail-oriented and self-motivated, with the ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

CPA or equivalent certification.
Experience with a Big Four accounting firm or other national accounting firm.
Hands-on experience with OneStream or a comparable consolidation system and NetSuite, particularly OneWorld and multi-book accounting.
Public company experience, including SEC reporting timelines and SOX 404 compliance.
Experience integrating newly acquired entities into an existing accounting and consolidation structure, including purchase accounting.
Experience implementing or improving a consolidation system.
Demonstrated success automating manual accounting processes and reducing close cycle time.
Willingness to take on challenges and think constructively to solve problems.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end consolidated close calendar across all IonQ legal entities, including leading the corporate close call, tracking subsidiary deliverables and dependencies, and escalating timeline risks.
Set requirements for subsidiary trial balances and reporting packages; manage collection and review; and validate completeness, account mapping, and consistency with corporate accounting policies.
Prepare and review consolidation entries, including top-side adjustments, investment eliminations, and equity roll-forwards; review intercompany eliminations prepared by the Intercompany Accounting team.
Prepare consolidated trial balances, financial statements, and flux analyses, and investigate and explain significant movements to leadership, SEC Reporting, and FP&A.
Oversee foreign subsidiary translation under ASC 830, including exchange-rate governance, cumulative translation adjustment roll-forwards, and disclosure support.
Lead consolidation of newly acquired and newly formed entities, including opening balance sheets and purchase accounting under ASC 805, chart-of-accounts mapping, reporting timelines, and onboarding local finance teams.
Maintain the consolidated chart of accounts and mappings from entity ledgers to the consolidation structure, controlling changes to preserve consistent reporting.
Provide consolidated schedules and supporting analyses for quarterly and annual SEC filings, earnings materials, and Audit Committee reporting.
Serve as the accounting owner of OneStream consolidation, including workflows, data loads, validations, and consolidation and translation rules.
Support data flows between NetSuite, OneStream, and downstream planning and reporting tools such as Pigment; ensure consolidated results reconcile to source ledgers.
Build and document scalable consolidation processes, close calendars, and reporting package standards that reduce manual effort and shorten the close.
Identify root causes of recurring consolidation adjustments and late or inaccurate submissions, and resolve them upstream with entity controllers and shared services.
Design, document, and execute internal controls over consolidation and financial reporting, and remediate control gaps as the control environment grows.
Serve as the primary consolidation contact for external auditors and prepare consolidation schedules, roll-forwards, and supporting documentation for quarterly reviews and the year-end audit.
Research and document US GAAP accounting positions concerning consolidation, foreign currency, and business combinations under ASC 805, ASC 810, and ASC 830; monitor policy compliance across entities.