Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships–resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details:
Groupon is looking for a talented, highly motivated individual to join its Corporate Accounting team as a Senior Manager, specifically focused on technical accounting and supporting external reporting matters. This is very much a “hands on” role that will interact with various teams and departments across the business including Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, HR and Corporate Development, among others. This role will have a high level of visibility with regular opportunities to work directly with Accounting leadership, including the Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Director and Director of Corporate Accounting, and Global Controller. The ideal candidate for this role is a strong team player and proactive self-starter who is highly analytical, thoughtfully collaborative in working with business partners and efficient in managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
As a Corporate Accounting Senior Manager, your responsibilities will include: assessing and documenting the accounting treatment for material transactions to inform management decision-making; establishing global accounting policies, including the adoption of new accounting standards; partnering with operational accounting teams and other stakeholders to develop reporting needed to account for new initiatives and material transactions; executing on judgmental month-end close activities such as developing significant management estimates for variable consideration and legal reserves; supporting external reporting activities conducted by the team's SEC reporting function. Material transactions include but are not limited to business combinations and divestitures, compensation arrangements, significant contracts with third-parties and new business initiatives.
You’ll spend your time on the following:
Research technical accounting issues to ensure compliance with Company policies and US GAAP guidance for various areas including goodwill, leases, share-based compensation, revenue recognition, investments, consolidation, business combinations, foreign currency and other matters and prepare related white-paper documentation.
Facilitate the process of implementing new accounting standards and pronouncements to ensure the Company is prepared to comply at the necessary time of adoption.
Review existing accounting policies to ensure ongoing applicability to the business and compliance with changes in accounting standards.
Work closely with the Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, HR and Corporate Development teams to evaluate the accounting implications of terms and conditions of significant transactions and initiatives.
Estimate material reserves, including gathering necessary operational data, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of inputs, verifying the methodology of estimation models and assessing impacts of current business practices and new initiatives on model outputs.
Assist with ad-hoc questions raised by the business and assess the relevant accounting implications.
Collaborate with the team's SEC Reporting function to support external reporting matters including quarterly and annual filings, proxy statements and current reports.
Develop training initiatives and create relevant materials to foster continued development and accounting-specific education across the broader organization.
Coach and develop senior analysts.
We’re excited about you if you have/are:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA preferred
10+ years of relevant accounting experience; combination of public accounting and industry experience at a public company is highly preferred
Strong background in technical accounting research and analysis; sound understanding of US GAAP is required
Ability to review and interpret new and proposed accounting regulations; SEC reporting experience is a plus
Excellent communication skills, delivering both written and verbal messages clearly and succinctly
Proficiency with MS Office and GSuite applications; high-level of comfort with Excel is required
Workiva experience is preferred, but not required
Detail oriented with a penchant for preparing meticulously accurate work.
Able to switch seamlessly from working independently to working as part of a team
Enthusiastic, adaptable and see challenges as an opportunity to grow
Thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment
Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce marketplace, click here for the latest Groupon news. Plus, be sure to check out the values that shape our culture, guide our strategy and make our company a great place to work. And just don’t take our word for it. Hear from real Groupon team members and learn more about our inclusive employee groups. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and let’s see where this takes us.
Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.
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