Job Description
As a Director/Senior Manager Technical Accounting, you'll impact the lives of everyday people and help them go from surviving to thriving with innovative digital personal finance solutions. In this remote, work from home position, you will work with an established team, the Center of Excellence ("COE") to continue to build out the technical accounting function by delivering high-quality technical analyses, including drafting accounting policies, accounting memos for new products, new transactions, and implementation of new US GAAP. Reporting to the Head of Accounting, you will collaborate closely with senior finance leadership and cross-functional partners across Capital Markets, Strategic Finance, Legal, FP&A, Tax and Treasury. We are always striving to Get Better, and your input and improvements will be greatly appreciated!
THE ROLE:
- Work cross-functionally across the business to foresee potential accounting issues and recommend practical solutions associated with contemplated business transactions.
- Review all new business activities to ensure timely identification of accounting and financial reporting matters and prepare high quality accounting memorandums for senior management and auditors.
- Foster strong partnerships with cross-functional partners to understand contractual arrangements, transactions and operational structures. Provide accounting expertise, including options and recommendations for transaction structuring, and simply and precisely explain accounting implications.
- Support financial audits with preparing audit requests, coordinating information requests,compiling technical accounting assessments.
- Collaborate with advisory services when required in analyzing accounting standards and assessing the associated business implications required to support implementations of new or revised technical accounting treatments.
- Support the preparation and review of corporate accounting policies and procedures.
- Participate in both formal and informal reviews with business to ensure financial statement disclosures are complete and accurate and align internal reporting with US GAAP.
- Assist in the evaluation, maintenance, and performance of key controls over technical accounting.
- Represent the company professionally as a technical accounting subject matter expert.
- Champion strategic innovation by developing new processes and encouraging ongoing process improvement within the accounting function.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Accounting Degree and CPA required
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, (minimum 5 years in a leadership role)
- Big 4 or Mid-Tier experience as a manager or Sr. Manager
- Strong / Advanced Technical GAAP experience with ASC 230, 326, 606, 810, 815, 820, and 860, including experience with securitization/SPV structures
- Technical writing skills (memos and implementation documentation)
- Financial Services or Fin- tech industry experience a plus
- Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills
- Advanced excel skills
- Oracle experience a plus
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Company Description
Achieve is a leading digital personal finance company. We help everyday people move from struggling to thriving by providing innovative, personalized financial solutions. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, our solutions are tailored for each step of our member's financial journey to include personal loans, home equity loans, debt consolidation, financial tools and education. Every day, we get to help our members move their finances forward with care, compassion, and an empathetic touch. We put people first and treat them like humans, not account numbers.
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What We Do
Formally known as Freedom Financial Network, Achieve launched in 2022 as the leading digital personal finance company helping everyday people get on, and stay on, the path to a better financial future. Achieve delivers personalized financial solutions for real people through intelligent technology and an empathetic human touch. From the single parent trying to buy a home to the overworked employee drowning in debt, we provide innovative solutions, budgeting tools, and education to help them move from surviving to thriving. We put our members first by coaching them through their financial health journey to understand what’s working for them and what’s not. Our tailored approach is designed to meet everyone where they are in life because they’re more than just a credit score.
Our people make the biggest difference. With more than 2,200 teammates between California, Arizona, Florida, and Texas, everyone collaborates together to make an impact towards our mission; to empower everyday people to move forward on a path to a better financial future.
We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can belong, while giving their true authentic selves a place to shine. Whether you’re in sales, member support, engineering, product design, IT or any of our other exciting roles, you’ll join a team passionate about serving our members and embracing our core values every day:
Care (For everyone)
Get Better (Every day)
Act With Integrity (Every time)
Collaborate (With everyone)
Why Work With Us
The technology we are building has real human impact to positively change the trajectory of millions of American families living with the crippling weight of consumer debt. Our growing teams are determined to get better every day through open collaboration and genuine family-like care for the whole person—engineers are never lost in the shuffle.
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