Director, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting

Direct and support accounting departments technical accounting, financial reporting and analysis, consolidation activities, with a particular emphasis on capitalized software and fixed asset accounting.. Responsible for GAAP compliance, multi-entity consolidation and intercompany accounting, financial statement preparation and review, internal controls, quarterly reporting deliverables, and technical accounting research for complex and non-routine transactions.

Capitalized software, Fixed Assets and IT Accounting

• Manage senior accountant responsible for fixed assets and capital expenditures.
• Ensure proper capitalization of internally developed software in accordance with ASC 350, including review of stage classification and capitalizable cost determination
• Review and record journal entries for all IT-related costs — capital and expense — ensuring proper classification and allocation between the two.
• Review and provide analysis for all IT expenditures, including proper allocation between expense and capital and provide monthly executive level reporting.
• Oversee annual impairment review of fixed assets and capitalized software.
• Provide oversight for the Oracle fixed assets module to include proper asset classifications, strategic initiative set up and segregation of assets to the proper entity.
• Review reconciliations of IT time reporting in RMS to Oracle fixed assets to ensure the systems are in synch.
• Collaborate with the resource manager to ensure the employee, contractor and consultant roster are properly allocated between business as usual and addbacks to properly report costs.
• Ensure fixed assets are properly allocated by legal entity to support accurate consolidation and elimination of intercompany asset transfers.
• Participate in General Service procurements meetings to provide financial analysis and guidelines for capitalization.
• Collaborate with FP&A on Workday Adaptive input, reporting and sheet buildouts for capital and expenses.

• Review or perform month end transaction review, journal entries, and financial statement variance analysis for assigned departments.
• Coordinate team efforts for multi-company, multi-currency eliminations & consolidations; prepare/ review intercompany reconciliations, elimination entries, and consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP. Ability to understand ERP set-ups and assist with decision making on how to modify when needed.
• Oversee the end-to-end intercompany transaction process, including billing, settlements, and resolution of intercompany out-of-balance positions across all legal entities in collaboration with the International Controller.
• Develop and maintain an intercompany accounting policy and procedures manual; ensure consistent treatment across entities and compliance with transfer-pricing documentation requirements.
• Monitor addbacks for adjusted EBITDA to ensure properly set up on the system and that costs is a justified addback.
• Participate in preparation of monthly financial statements and annual audited financial statements.
• Prepare/review monthly reconciliations for various general ledger accounts.
• Proactively design and maintain actionable reporting and metrics that are appropriate for audiences from development team members to executive management to BMI’s owners independently or in corroboration with others.
• Review work papers for property tax, property allocation, research & development and various others as assigned.
• Participate in year-end external financial audit.
• Serve as accounting decision maker in corporate projects in developing approach, business requirements and financial analysis, while ensuring that accounting requirements are adhered to.
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