Vice President Manager , Operational & Technical Accounting - Accordion

Operational & Technical Accounting Practice

With the increase in complexity of the business environment and transactions, CFOs of private equity-backed companies are increasingly being looked towards to drive strategic insights for their business. Finance organizations are no longer simply result reporters, but rather, they couple these results with forward-looking data to provide strategic insights which are leveraged to make business decisions. Efficiency of process and meaningful control environments allows for speed of financial reporting with increasingly accurate measures, leaving more time for the finance team to add future enterprise value, rather than look backwards.

Accordion’s Operational & Technical Accounting Advisory (O&T) Practice is comprised of a dedicated team providing accounting and financial advice to support PE-backed portfolio companies on a wide range of transactions and events, including Accounting Policies & Procedures, ERP/Financial System Execution, Financial Statement Close Process, Process & Controls Implementation, Technical Accounting, Finance/Accounting Assessment & Design and Finance & Accounting Organization Standup from a Carve-Out or Merger.  We are doers and problem solvers – making sense of complexity and bolstering sponsors’ value creation theses.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location. Travel to client sites will be required as needed.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You’ll Do:

As part of a lean, cross-functional team, the O&T Vice President (Manager) will play a vital role in identifying and rectifying issues across a broad range of scenarios. The following representative engagements are emblematic of the type of work you’ll do as an O&T Vice President (Manager) at Accordion:

• Perform deep-dives and gain an understanding of current state processes, people, and systems (both on paper and in reality)
• Identify root causes and provide recommendations on how to improve broken processes, bridge control gaps, and better align roles and responsibilities with best practices
• Implement tools and creative solutions that the accounting function can use to streamline their close process (e.g. introduce materiality limits, close checklists, and calendars)
• Cash to US GAAP conversion, adopting key accounting standards such as revenue recognition and lease accounting
• The timely and accurate preparation of financial statements, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules
• Project managing the audit timeline throughout the engagement