Accounting Manager

Summary

Join Bird, a company revolutionizing urban transportation with eco-friendly scooters, as a highly impactful G/L Accounting Manager. This role involves managing the G/L Accounting team, overseeing monthly and quarterly close processes, producing financial statements, and partnering with various finance teams. You will own G/L accounting and reconciliations, participate in ad hoc technical accounting projects, and ensure compliance with SEC requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive financial accounting experience, a CPA license, and a strong understanding of GAAP. Bird offers a dynamic and supportive work environment with opportunities for growth and learning.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in accounting or finance profession(s)
• 1+ years of people-managing experience
• CPA license
• Thorough understanding of US GAAP
• Ability to remain flexible in a constantly changing environment, while demonstrating strong management, team-building, business-partnering, and prioritization skills
• Experience in public accounting profession
• Experience with IPO readiness and/or public-companies
• Experience with NetSuite (or equivalent) and/or FloQast (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Plenty of time off to relax and recharge
• Generous employer-paid healthcare coverage
• On-demand doctor visits
• Childcare support
• A pre-tax commuter account for mass transit or parking
• A wellness stipend