Senior Technical Accounting Lead

Summary

Join Western Digital and become a Sr. Technical Accounting Lead, contributing to the company's external financial reporting and internal consulting. You will monitor and research new accounting standards, analyze complex transactions, and review corporate accounting policies. Collaboration with various internal clients and external auditors is crucial. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in accounting, a CPA, and 4+ years of experience in complex accounting, including SEC reporting and GAAP. Experience in public accounting is preferred. Western Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, health insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, and more.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and hold a CPA
• 4+ years of experience with complex accounting including SEC reporting and GAAP
• Proven success with managing a team of finance professionals through ambiguity while still driving results

Responsibilities

• Monitor and research new accounting standards, summarize and communicate impacts to executives and the Audit Committee, and lead process changes where necessary to respond to new requirements
• Analyze and understand complex transactions, apply complex accounting standards to those transactions, develop solutions to problems and effectively communicate the results to stakeholders
• Review and monitor corporate accounting policies and work with various stakeholders to implement revisions when necessary to adapt to changes in the business, organization, or accounting standards to ensure that policies remain effective, efficient, and compliant with U.S. GAAP
• Collaborate effectively with internal clients, including General Accounting, Corporate FP&A, Manufacturing Operations, IT, Treasury, Corporate Development, Legal, Internal Audit, Real Estate Operations, and Shared Services
• Manage periodic review and assessments for complex accounting areas including impairment assessments, restructuring, equity investments, consolidation, joint ventures, and lease accounting
• Prepare financial statements and disclosures for complex accounting areas
• Liaise with external auditors and company stakeholder to manage effective and efficient audit execution

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience working in Public Accounting (Big 4) is highly preferred

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards