Manager, Accounting & Reporting

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

You will lead a team of two direct reports, and perform the following:
• Financial Statement preparation and reporting, including global profit and loss, balance sheet & cash flow statements
• Accounting partnership with multiple teams including Marketing, People Experience and Studios
• Support the Investor Relations, SEC and FP&A teams through quarterly earnings cycle
• Subject matter expert for Controllership on reporting tools and environments

Reporting
• Monthly review, analysis and preparation of financial statements and supplementary schedules (revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, balance sheet including supplementals & cash flow) versus forecast & prior period actuals
• Present financial statements & related schedules to Chief Accounting Officer and finance leadership team at global close meetings
• Guide the monthly/quarterly review meetings for gross profit/operating expense with relevant teams (e.g., Studios, Marketing, Corporate functions, etc.)
• Ownership of quarterly earnings/audit cycle for Controllership team, which includes:
• Preparation and management of the externally published downloadable model, press tables, applicable Investor Relations slides, and review of the earnings script
• Preparation and management of the KPMG analytics for profit and loss and operating expenses
• Organize and support the annual 401K audit
• Controllership Subject Matter Expert (SME) on reporting environments (HFM, Snowflake) and tools (Power BI)

Accounting
• Cultivate and maintain partnerships with FP&A and the business (including Marketing, People Experience, Information Technology and Studios)
• Manage contract reviews for agreements exceeding $1M
• Perform reviews on all other relevant, material contractual agreements to determine proper accounting recognition and guidance on future amounts in the plan/forecast
• Manage accounting for accruals, reclasses and prepaids for items that meet policy or have a material impact to actuals
• Oversee accounting for all ongoing internally generated intangibles projects
• Design and implement processes for new and ad hoc transactions as they arise
• Prepare, maintain, and review reconciliations in cadency tool for the balance sheet accounts
• Train/onboard new FP&A partners in accounting treatment of the recognition and classification of transactions specifically expense and assets/liabilities
• Accounting ownership of bonus (US), severance (WW/US), 401K (US), relocation (WW) and sabbatical (WW)

Technical skills and experience
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or a related field (CPA Preferred)
• 5+ years of relevant accounting/financial & systems experience
• Working knowledge of US GAAP accounting and reporting
• Knowledge of financial systems and dataflows between operations and finance
• Building relationships with key business partners and leaders, and external auditors
• Previous supervisory / team management experience
• Experience with HFM/Oracle/Power BI/Cadency or other relevant systems

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro5xj3-18-116-118-198-42 in your application.