Senior Accountant - Acquisition and Integration Accounting
- Avalara Technologies
- 5 - 10 years
- Pune
- 23 days ago
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Job Description
What You'll DoThe Acquisition and Integration team at Avalara is looking for a Senior Accountant. You will support our acquisition strategy. You will support accounting-related pre- and post-close activities of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and will represent accounting throughout the M&A process, working with cross-department business leaders and functional accounting teams to provide a seamless accounting and integration efforts associated with identified acquisitions and investments. Working during EMEA hours (2 to 11 pm IST) is minimum with additional overlap on certain days to work with the US Acquisition and Integration Accounting team.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Using your financial expertise, you will participate in the M&A process from diligence through integration.
- You will identify financial risks and valuation possible effects during the financial due diligence process.
- Subsequently, you will help integrate newly acquired businesses into our accounting & treasury processes including legal entity set up, establishing a monthly close rhythm for acquired entities, journalizing full consolidation of acquired entity results, establishment of purchase accounting entries that occur from purchase price allocation and policy understanding, and ongoing efforts to integration accounting systems and also processes.
- Provide strategic and best practice insights to sponsoring business teams to help them navigate the M&A lifecycle, including accounting for routine and complex accounting and finance issues associated with M&A and investment transactions.
- Define, track and communicate appropriate performance metrics to project teams and partners and manage competing M&A activities.
- Prepare appropriate documentation to close out projects and facilitate effective transition of accounting into the finance and accounting organization, including compliance considerations associated with Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Lead and also support continuous improvement plans for Avalara.
- Build relationships across multiple teams within Avalara to foster a collaborative and productive working relationship.
- You will report to senior manager.
What You'll Need to be Successful
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or equivalent.
- Minimum relevant 5+ years of intermediate accounting experience or more including experience with a global public company.
- Exposure to technical and operational accounting in asset acquisitions, business combinations, other investments, consolidation matters, multi-currency, and intercompany transactions with foreign entities. Public accounting experience.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA). Experience with NetSuite (preferred) or other large ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP.
- Proficient in Excel and Experienced in data analysis, project management, cross-functional collaboration.With a collaborative approach. with the ability to customize approach for a variety of audiences.
- Affinity for tools and also processes to help deploy our ERP system and other finance and reporting tools. Your view of the big picture helps you to develop and also implement a legal entity merger concept and perform related legal entity valuations.
- Critical qualities to be successful include. Exhibit, accountability, and a commitment to ethical standards.
- Commitment to continued improvement documented by streamlining processes.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Finance & AccountingRole Category: Finance & Accounting - OtherRole: Finance & Accounting - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Avalara TechnologiesLocation(s): Pune
Keyskills: Accounting ERP project management data analysis CPA Public accounting
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