Manager Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting

  • Hilton Headquarters
  • Mc Lean, Virginia
  • 11/03/2021
Full time

Job Description

Our Finance team serves as a critical business partner responsible for managing all global activities related to financial performance, accounting, tax, forecasting, risk management, and asset management.

What will I be doing?

As the Manager, Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting you will have a hybrid role working with both the Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting teams. This role will primarily be responsible for researching and documenting technical accounting analyses of complex transactions and preparing financial statement disclosures and related reporting under the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) to assist with completing required financial documents for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and other regulatory requirements. You will also be responsible for developing accounting policies and training, implementing new accounting standards, and assisting with reporting under International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) and local accounting principles.

More specifically, you will:

  • -Prepare written accounting memos documenting accounting issues and transactions for review by senior management and external auditors
    -Prepare and review the consolidated financial statements and related footnotes for inclusion in quarterly reviewed and annually audited financial statements, ensuring compliance under U.S. GAAP and the SEC, as applicable
    -Prepare and/or review the earnings' release, documents to support the earnings' call, and additional needs of the Investor Relations team
    -Formulate responses to accounting inquiries received from the finance and accounting teams to present to the team
    -Prepare analyses supporting the development and evaluation of global accounting policies with input from accounting, finance, and other operational teams
    -Monitor the activities of all accounting standard-setting bodies, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), and craft analysis supporting the evaluation of the accounting and reporting effects of new standards, including the development of new accounting policies and the coordination of the adoption of accounting standards
    -Research the accounting/disclosure requirements of new accounting standards and transactions, considering relevant accounting literature and the effect of the new standard or transaction on the Company's accounting policies and financial documents
    -Prepare and review subsidiary financial statements for various reporting obligations, ensuring compliance with all reporting and disclosure requirements under U.S. GAAP or other standards, as applicable
    -Prepare and deliver accounting-related training materials
    -Prepare analysis supporting the maintenance of accounting internal control policies/procedures and provide supporting documentation to the internal auditor regarding control procedures
    -Coordinate with external auditors to provide requested documentation
    -Organize and communicate status related to assignments and projects
    -Mentor and develop team members