The Role
Provides assurance and technical accounting consulting to CFOs, controllers, auditors, and finance teams. Responsibilities include solving accounting and reporting issues, developing defensible accounting positions, strengthening close and control processes, supporting disclosures and audit readiness, and driving remediation to completion. The role requires strong US GAAP, IFRS, or Ind AS expertise, auditor-facing experience, executive communication, and disciplined documentation. IPO readiness and technology-sector experience are valued.
Summary Generated by Built In
Bough is a decidedly different kind of advisory, assurance, and transformation solutions firm. Working collaboratively with clients in finance, audit, and compliance organizations, we co-create integrated solutions that connect people, processes, and technologies to navigate accounting, reporting, and compliance matters.
Our services include finance and accounting advisory, revenue assurance, FP&A advisory and support, risk advisory, and process automation and transformation.
We are busy and sometimes crazy busy delivering exceptional results to our clients with trust, quality, and humanness. Our name 'Bough' means the main branch of a tree - a name that keeps us grounded in nature and emphasizes our belief that we wish to be the main branch on which our clients and employees lean with trust.
For any position we are hiring, we don’t just want you to be an ambitious, analytical, multi-skilled, risk-taking go-getter for Bough. We want you to be more. More for yourself and for anything you undertake. Socially responsible, intuitive, empathetic, trustworthy, thoughtful, imaginative, creative, and curious are some words that resonate with us. Your skills are a qualifier, and we believe that each of us is much more than the skills we bring to our job - the person we are looking for...
Role Overview
We’re looking for individuals who turn ambiguity into clarity, and clarity into confidence. People who move with rigor, think with precision, and elevate every room they walk into. This work sits where accounting meets scrutiny, and it demands technical depth, calm judgment, and client-ready execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Solve technical accounting and accounting operations problems, end to end
- Work directly with CFOs, CAOs, Controllers, and their teams
- Diagnose issues with an auditor’s mindset; solve them with a consulting mindset
- Build clear, defensible accounting positions and decision-ready documentation
- Strengthen close and reporting operations: process, controls, cadence, remediation
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external auditors to drive clean outcomes
- Support reporting readiness (disclosures, tie-outs, audit support packages)
- Bring structure to ambiguity and drive teams to closure
Qualifications and Experience
- 4+ years relevant experience (assurance/technical accounting/controllership/consulting) with increasing ownership
- Bachelor’s/master’s in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CA/CPA preferred (or equivalent)
- Strong accounting fundamentals and financial reporting judgment, you’re fluent from first principles
- Technical accounting depth in US GAAP and/or IFRS / Ind AS; ability to form clear, defensible positions
- Experience operating alongside external auditors; strong evidence, documentation, and review discipline
- IPO readiness and reporting preparedness experience is a plus
- Broad industry exposure; technology sector experience strongly valued
Preferred Skills
- Executive-ready communication: crisp, structured, and confident with senior finance leadership
- Calm, structured problem-solver with auditor instincts and a consulting orientation
- Documentation discipline and control mindset; produces audit-ready artifacts and traceability
- Stakeholder management across finance leadership and external auditors; earns trust quickly
- High integrity and confidentiality handling financial and disclosure data; bias to action in deadline-driven environments
Skills Required
- 4+ years of relevant experience in assurance, technical accounting, controllership, or consulting
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- CA or CPA certification, or equivalent
- Strong accounting fundamentals and financial reporting judgment
- Technical accounting expertise in US GAAP and/or IFRS / Ind AS
- Experience working alongside external auditors
- Strong evidence, documentation, and review discipline
- IPO readiness and reporting preparedness experience
- Broad industry exposure
- Technology sector experience
- Executive-ready communication skills
- Stakeholder management across finance leadership and external auditors
- Ability to handle confidential financial and disclosure data
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The Company
What We Do
Bough is an advisory and transformation firm serving CFOs, Controllers, boards, and leadership teams. It provides accounting advisory, risk and ESG services, finance transformation, technical accounting, close acceleration, revenue recognition, SEC reporting, internal audit, enterprise risk, and technology-enabled process modernization. The firm uses senior practitioners and a co-creation approach to help organizations address operational and regulatory complexity, improve resilience, and build long-term value.
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