Outscal Logooutscal logo

Director of Technical Accounting & Reporting

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Account Management • Finance • $190,000 PA - $250,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director of Technical Accounting & Reporting at AlphaSense will lead the implementation and maintenance of internal controls for financial reporting, ensuring compliance with GAAP, SEC, and international standards. This role requires extensive experience with complex accounting matters, M&A transactions, and SEC filings. Responsibilities include providing technical accounting guidance, supporting the finance team, managing accounting for various transactions, preparing audit schedules and financial statements, and managing the reporting team. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical accounting skills, excellent communication, and project management abilities, and can work effectively with various stakeholders including external auditors, CFOs, and founders.
Must have:
  • CPA and Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance
  • 8+ years of accounting experience (Big 4 & public company)
  • Extensive knowledge of US GAAP, SEC reporting, internal controls
  • Experience with M&A, purchase accounting, goodwill impairment
  • Ability to research, interpret accounting guidance, and draft memos
Good to have:
  • International accounting exposure
  • Experience in technology/software sector
  • Experience in a rapidly scaling global organization

Job Details

Reports to: Chief Accounting Officer

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 2,000 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

About the Role: 

We're looking for an exceptional accountant with multinational public company experience to help us solve complex GAAP accounting matters and ready the business’ financial reporting for the rigor of public market review. This teammate will lead the implementation and maintenance of a system of internal controls that will ensure financial reporting is prepared in compliance with all new or proposed accounting standards within FASB, AICPA, PCAOB, EITF, SEC, and other international standards. The successful candidate must demonstrate a strong ability to provide meaningful reviews, feedback, and whitepapers on a broad array of matters and have strong project management skills. To be successful, the Director of Technical Accounting must have the interpersonal skills to work directly with founders, CFOs, and external auditors and the organizational skills to manage and prioritize multiple inquiries and meet deadlines.

Who You Are:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, and CPA required.
  • 8+ years of experience in accounting; including Big 4 public accounting experience and experience with financial reporting in a public company. 
  • Extensive experience with complex and significant business combinations, M&A transaction and purchase accounting, Pro Forma financial statements, accounting policy alignment, and goodwill impairment testing preferred.
  • Extensive knowledge of SEC Reporting, US GAAP and internal control process required; some international exposure is preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to research and interpret accounting guidance, draft accounting memos to support conclusions, and coordinate with external auditors to ensure alignment on positions. 
  • Ability to work independently and effectively manage time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently and as committed; able to multi-task and adapt quickly to a dynamic work environment.
  • Experience working in the technology / software sector, or within a rapidly scaling global organization is a plus.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Serve as the technical resource on GAAP and SEC rules and regulations and engage with business partners to ensure all relevant accounting issues and complex transactions are identified; and assist in structuring transactions to maximize operating and accounting goals. Support the finance and accounting team with timely and insightful research, documentation, and guidance on technical accounting matters, including complex and non-standard transactions.
  • Follow emerging accounting issues and proactively analyze their impact on the Company’s results and financial position and implement new accounting standards.
  • Manage accounting and reporting for M&A, equity, stock-based compensation, leasing, and revenue for compliance with relevant ASC guidance.
  • Assist with the preparation/review of audit schedules for annual audit, and lead preparation and review of financial statements, footnote disclosures, MD&A, and other relevant reporting matters.
  • Manage any potential SEC Filings such as registration statements, 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and Proxy statements and supporting documentation
  • Prepare cash flows, stockholders’ roll forward, EPS calculation, stock-based compensation, and accounting for non-routine transactions.
  • Develop and update the risk and control assessment, staying informed of new and emerging risks as well as key control issues, trends and developments
  • Manage the reporting team, focusing on training and development, performance assistance and offering growth opportunities
  • Participate in strategic financial projects including upgrades and the implementation of ERP software.

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

 

Base Compensation Range*:  $190,000 - $250,000

Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

*For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Similar Jobs

Epic Games - Rendering Programmer

Epic Games

(On-Site)
2 Months ago
Sinch - Senior Full Stack Engineer - Typescript

Sinch

Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
4 Months ago
Coursera - Business Development Manager, Universities

Coursera

Saudi Arabia (Remote)
1 Month ago
Spin Master - Brand Finance Analyst, Iberia (Temporary Cover)

Spin Master

Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Socialpoint - ASO Analyst

Socialpoint

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Take-Two Interactive - Tax Accountant

Take-Two Interactive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
The Walt Disney Company - Addressable Associate Account Manager

The Walt Disney Company

Santa Monica, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
PwC - Manager/Senior Manager Tax Compliance (m/f/d)

PwC

Luxembourg (On-Site)
5 Months ago
PwC - Manager Accounting (m/f/d)

PwC

Luxembourg (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Hasbro - Key Account Manager Walmart

Hasbro

Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Gallagher - Sr. QA Analyst

Gallagher

Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Barnstorm VFX - MTL - Compositing Supervisor

Barnstorm VFX

(On-Site)
1 Month ago
PlayStation Global - Senior UX Researcher

PlayStation Global

United States (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Playrix - Senior Researcher

Playrix

Cyprus (Remote)
5 Months ago
PlayQ - Senior Recruiter

PlayQ

Santa Monica, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Unity - Product Strategy, Professional Services

Unity

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Take-Two Interactive - Payroll Specialist

Take-Two Interactive

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
3 Months ago
ByteDance - Product Marketing Manager, Pangle

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
FUEL - Head of Content

FUEL

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
8 Months ago
Globalization Partners - Sales Executive

Globalization Partners

Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Remote)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Oregon, Remote, United States

Onward Search - B2B Sales Associate

Onward Search

Baltimore, Ohio, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Blizzard Entertainment - Motion Graphics Artist, Blizzard Video - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)

Blizzard Entertainment

Irvine, California, United States (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Intrepid Studios,  Inc  - Senior Level Designer

Intrepid Studios, Inc

San Diego, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
The Walt Disney Company - Lead Software Engineer, Machine Learning - Ad Platforms

The Walt Disney Company

Santa Monica, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Evolution - Floor Operations Supervisor

Evolution

Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Next Level Business Services - BPM solution consultant

Next Level Business Services

Edison, New Jersey, United States (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Sitetracker - Small Business Account Executive (SMB)

Sitetracker

New York, New York, United States (Remote)
5 Months ago
Axinous - Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Axinous

United States (Remote)
2 Weeks ago
Logitech - Public Sector Account Manager

Logitech

Minnesota, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
Skillz - Business Intelligence Manager

Skillz

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Account Management Jobs

Zuru - Sales Coordinator

Zuru

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Axinous - Senior Manager - Indirect Tax

Axinous

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Remote)
3 Weeks ago
Cyara - Account Executives (East)

Cyara

United States (Remote)
3 Months ago
SSC Technologies - Manager/ Associate Director - US Partnership Tax

SSC Technologies

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Universal Music - Accounting Manager, Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Universal Music

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
CD PROJEKT RED - Accountant

CD PROJEKT RED

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
SSC Technologies - Manager - Hedge Fund/ Private Equity Fund Accounting

SSC Technologies

Los Angeles, California, United States (Hybrid)
6 Months ago
Fanatics - Sr Microsoft 365 (D365) Business Analyst -India

Fanatics

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Azerion - Microsoft Ads Account Executive

Azerion

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Netflix - Content Accountant, LATAM

Netflix

Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico (On-Site)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Singapore, Singapore (On-Site)

Pune, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)

Remote, Oregon, United States (Remote)

Remote, Oregon, United States (Remote)

United Kingdom (Remote)

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)

Remote, Oregon, United States (Remote)

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)

Singapore, Singapore (On-Site)

Pune, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Alphasense

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug