Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting

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Houston

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As the Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting, reporting to the Assistant Corporate Controller, you will be the primary contact for external reporting and corporate accounting for BMC Software. You will lead a team of managers/senior-level accounting personnel, including “dotted line” oversight of the services performed on behalf of Corporate Accounting by the global shared services team in Pune, India.

Additionally, you will have significant interaction with other global accounting teams and work cross-functionally with departments within BMC including Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Legal, Human Resources, and others.

• Oversee the global monthly and accounting close process, including developing the corporate close calendar, managing the close progress against deadlines, and coordinating with global accounting teams.
• Lead the accounting and internal control activities for share-based compensation plans, bonus plans and other global compensation programs, as well as foreign currency matters, intercompany transactions, lease accounting, derivative accounting, business combinations, debt modifications, and other centralized accounting processes.
• Perform hands-on technical research and oversight, evaluation, and documentation for significant, complex transactions, , new accounting pronouncements, and ad hoc questions, serving as the Company’s technical accounting resource to support other accounting functions such as regional accounting, revenue accounting, and global shared services functions on analyzing and evaluating their complex accounting issues, and serving as principal liaison with the external auditors regarding technical accounting positions.
• Manage and oversee valuation efforts in connection with goodwill impairment testing, M&A transactions, share-based awards, derivatives, etc.
• Lead the preparation of quarterly and annual investor/lender financial reporting packages and presentations, interacting closely with a number of other finance functions as well as legal counsel. Provide oversight of the preparation and analysis of financial statements, footnotes and MD&A, EBITDA reporting, coordination and review of disclosure information sourced from various parts of BMC, document review, and assisting external auditors.
• Lead M&A accounting initiatives including diligence, purchase agreement drafting assistance, purchase accounting (including intangible asset valuation efforts), and integration from an accounting standpoint.