Director - Technical Accounting

Director - Technical Accounting

Department: Accounting

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: 1668 S. Garfield Ave. 2nd Floor, Alhambra, CA 91801

Compensation: $200,000 - $230,000 / year

Astrana Health is hiring a Director of Technical Accounting. We have grown quickly, both organically and through acquisition, and we now operate three reportable segments spanning risk-bearing provider networks, care delivery and care enablement. That growth has made the judgments that matter most to our financial statements — how we account for the businesses we acquire, how we consolidate the entities we manage, how we value what we buy, and how we estimate what we owe — larger, more frequent and more complex.
Acquisitions are central to how we grow, and each one brings valuation, consolidation and integration questions that have to be resolved correctly and documented to the standard expected of a public company. As an SEC registrant we are also subject to Sarbanes–Oxley Section 404, which requires the controls over those judgments to be designed, operating and evidenced. Running three segments at this pace of growth is what makes this role critical: it is the single point of technical ownership for those judgments, for the checklists and review framework that make them repeatable, and for the controls that make them reliable.
You will be the company’s technical authority on US GAAP and SEC reporting. You will decide and document what the answer is, build the checklists and review framework that make the answer repeatable, design the controls with Internal Audit that make it reliable, and put management’s position in front of the auditors before they ask for it. You will report to the Chief Accounting Officer and work closely with the CFO, Controllership, SEC Reporting, Internal Audit, Actuarial, Corporate Development and Legal.

• Serve as the company's authority on US GAAP and SEC reporting — researching, concluding on, and documenting the accounting for complex, non‑routine, and first‑instance transactions, at a standard that survives external audit and regulatory review.
• Own and maintain the accounting policy manual, drive consistent application across all segments and acquired entities, and monitor new FASB and SEC pronouncements with a plan for adoption.

• Own acquisition accounting end to end: purchase price allocations, fair value determinations, contingent consideration, measurement‑period adjustments, and opening balance sheets — including directing and challenging third‑party valuation specialists.
• Assess consolidation for entities affiliated through management services agreements, including variable interest entity conclusions, reconsideration events, and non‑controlling interest classification.

• Build and maintain the company's technical accounting checklists — covering acquisitions, revenue, quarterly reporting, and significant transactions — along with the management review framework that defines who reviews what, at what precision, and against what evidence.
• Set the standard for what constitutes sufficient support for an accounting judgment and hold the organization to it.
• Maintain a technical issues log — open items, positions taken, status and the auditor’s view — and report it to the Chief Accounting Officer on a fixed cadence.

• Lead the design and implementation of SOX 404 controls over technical and judgmental areas of the financial statements, and drive remediation of any deficiencies through to operating effectiveness.
• Partner with Internal Audit on risk identification, control design, testing standards, and the expansion of SOX…