Manager, International Statutory & Technical Accounting

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Drive consistent application of group accounting policy across all international entities, owning local GAAP interpretations, bridge methodologies, and disclosure standards, ensuring alignment with US technical accounting team's policy.
• ● Own the international compliance framework, maintaining the calendar of statutory filing and audit obligations across all international entities and their standards, monitoring status, identifying at-risk entities, and escalating compliance exposures to leadership.
• ● Build and own the framework for applying group accounting policy across international entities, creating a clear, documented set of local GAAP positions and US GAAP to local GAAP bridge methodologies that replace entity-by-entity interpretation.
• ● Translate group policy into consistent local application and disclosure, ensuring local positions align with group policy.
• ● Build scalable, automated processes across the statutory and technical accounting lifecycle, designing templated, controls-driven, and automated workflows to scale compliance and reporting across 27 entities.
• ● Drive regulatory adherence by keeping international technical and reporting positions aligned with local statutory and regulatory requirements in each jurisdiction.
• ● Assess the compliance impact of new and emerging regulations, updating local guidance and briefing teams ahead of adoption.
• ● Draft technical accounting position papers that support statutory filings and audits on complex judgment areas (e.g., revenue recognition, intercompany and cost-plus arrangements, share-based compensation, lease accounting, and accounting for new entities).
• ● Provide technical review and sign-off on complex and material judgments and disclosures across the international portfolio.
• ● Act as the go-to technical resource across the statutory audit cycle, resolving contentious questions and auditor queries on judgmental matters and helping keep filings on track.
• ● Play a key role in the NetSuite-to-SAP transition, helping design statutory and technical accounting processes that will scale on the new platform.
• ● Collaborate extensively across the wider international accounting team, US accounting team, Tax, HR, and Legal, advising on accounting and statutory implications of intercompany arrangements, funding, structural changes, and new entities.

Requirements

• ● Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.