Accounting Manager

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.  Job Summary: • Report to the Senior Manager of Financial Services Accounting overseeing the ADA / Bad Debt, Factoring, and Securitization accounting. • Managing projects and assessing business initiatives that impact Securitization, Factoring transactions, Service, and EIP Bad Debt accounting. • Managing team-wide initiatives, process improvements, and supporting operational close. • Ability to work with large volumes of data, experience with complex Excel models/analysis, and well-versed on assessing accounting impacts to enterprise-wide system integrations/implementations Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance. • CPA preferred. Masters preferred. • 7+ years relevant accounting experience or 5+ years of public accounting experience with a regional or Big Four accounting firm. • Project management skills and experience preferred. • Financial services or wireless industry accounting experience preferred. • SAP and BPC experience a plus. Job Requirements and Responsibilities: • Deep understanding of business drivers and their effect on financial results required. • Ability to develop goals and the process by which to meet goals based on provided objectives. • Proven professional with advanced understanding of accounting theory, current accounting issues, and accounting systems, with solid understanding of US GAAP and IFRS. • Strong foundation in technical and/or operational accounting • Exhibit a solid understanding of ERP systems including sub-modules, including the development, implementation and/or maintenance of multiple systems. • Ability to develop and conduct presentations of technical information related to projects or accounting issues. • Serve as a knowledgeable resource and subject matter expert to business partners representing the Financial Services Accounting team with regards to ADA/Bad Debt, Factoring, and Securitization Accounting. • Deep understanding of the transactional flow through various systems to monitor and ensure adequate controls and accurate financial results. • Serve as a resource to support the monthly operations of the team to ensure that the team’s area of financial statement responsibility is in accordance with US GAAP and IFRS. • Lead the team in enterprise projects to ensure appropriate requirements are developed based on a solid understanding of the impacted systems and the transactional flow, and ensures adequate testing is performed. • Identify and communicate risks and issues impacting the financial area of responsibility to the appropriate team members and business partners. • Suggest and implement solutions to improve efficiencies in work processes while also reducing risk. • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation. • Manage projects on behalf of the team through testing, deployment, and implementation. To get further details or to schedule an interview please contact: Andre Jordan 425-394-5119 andre.jordan(at)collabera.com