Accounting Manager, Bird

• 5+ years of financial accounting experience
• CPA
• Experience in consolidations, including foreign entities
• Thorough understanding of GAAP including new pronouncements
• Advanced excel skills

Desirable

• This highly impactful role will manage the G/L Accounting team, overseeing Bird’s cover-to-cover monthly and quarterly close processes and producing monthly and quarterly internal financial statements and analyses
• This team, and this role, strategically partner with leaders in Finance, Treasury, A/P, and SEC Reporting & Technical Accounting
• Bird is innovative and entrepreneurial, creating a lot of opportunities for learning and growth
• We are looking for someone excited by the challenges present in a rapidly evolving environment who can build and manage a team, implementing structure and control where needed
• This role will own G/L accounting and reconciliations, and partner on ad hoc technical accounting projects, such as M&A, entity expansion, new accounting pronouncement adoption, new growth initiatives, financing, and much more
• This person will report to the Director of Accounting
• As Bird is a newly public company, this role will be a critical part of ensuring compliance with SEC requirements and US GAAP
• Develop and manage the G/L Accounting team, building redundancies into processes
• Partner cross-functionally to develop, implement, improve, and execute accounting processes and systems, with a specific focus on simplifying our current processes and establishing proper accountability across all teams
• Manage the preparation and review of monthly and quarterly journal entries and account reconciliations
• Prepare monthly and quarterly internal financial statements, analyses, and reporting packages
• Lead quarterly reviews and year-end audit
• Assist in the preparation and review of the 10-K and 10-Q fillings
• Partner with the business on new initiatives requiring accounting consultation
• Maintain G/L structure, optimizing our instance of NetSuite to support an effective, efficient public-company close