Technical Accounting Manager

Description:

The Technical Accounting Manager will be responsible for leading key technical accounting areas, including lease accounting, complex contract accounting, accounting research, and quarterly/annual financial reporting support. This role serves as a critical liaison across Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Treasury, Tax, and international finance teams, ensuring appropriate application of U.S. GAAP, timely close processes, and audit-ready documentation. The position also supports emerging accounting issues, prepares technical memos, and drives consistency in accounting policies and processes across the organization.

Essential Functions:

• Leads the accounting for complex transactions and executing critical quarterly and annual close activities. Responsibilities include owning all aspects of lease accounting under ASC 842 (including evaluating new and modified lease agreements, determining lease classification, maintaining the lease accounting system); leading the accounting for complex arrangements, including the preparation of recurring and non-recurring technical accounting memos; preparing journal entries and account reconciliations for technical accounting issues and repairing accounting analyses and supporting schedules for financial statement disclosures related to complex accounting matters, as needed.
• Partners cross-functionally with Finance (including India finance, FP&A, Treasury, and Tax), Legal, IT, and business stakeholders to proactively identify, assess, and resolve complex accounting and financial reporting matters while ensuring the consistent application of U.S. GAAP. This role serves as the technical accounting subject matter expert (SME) for the Company's India-based finance organization by providing guidance on accounting conclusions, implementation of new accounting standards, and resolution of technical accounting issues.
• Leads continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency, scalability, and effectiveness of technical accounting processes and related internal controls. Partners with Finance, IT, and business teams to design, implement, and enhance SOX controls over new business processes, system implementations, and other transformational initiatives. Support SOX compliance by maintaining strong documentation, assisting with internal control design and execution, and responding to internal and external audit requests.
• Oversees the Finance contract review process, coordination of agreement reviews, and timely routing of contracts to appropriate accounting and business stakeholders. This includes evaluating agreements for accounting implications, identifies technical accounting considerations, coordinates with Legal and business partners to resolve issues, and ensures accounting conclusions are appropriately documented prior to contract execution.