Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
The Senior Director of Accounting and SEC Reporting is primarily responsible for all corporate accounting, technical accounting and SEC reporting. This includes oversight of corporate accounting and SEC reporting teams, responsible for worldwide month-end close processes covering opex and the balance sheet, oversight and refining related SOX processes, and leading all SEC reporting activities and partnering on ESG reporting. This dynamic leader will proactively partner with revenue accounting leadership, Finance & Strategy (F&S) and business partners to anticipate and prepare for changes in the business, refine processes to accelerate timely, accurate and useful financial reporting, partner with IT to drive system improvements, and develop the future leaders across the teams. Collaboration skills are key, given the partnership required with internal stakeholders and leadership of the external audit process. The role will provide guidance to the rest of the team to help embed US GAAP knowledge and accounting policies needed in a high growth technology company.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Responsible for leading teams to generate timely internal and external financial reporting, driving effectiveness and efficiency and raising the bar on quality.
- Oversight of month-end close process, including balance sheet reconciliations, ad-hoc analyses, trial balance reviews, and financial statement preparation, managing to tight deadlines.
- Responsible for monthly internal, quarterly and annual SEC reporting, and partnership on ESG reporting requirements, with inspiring project management skills.
- Partnership within the CAO organization, as well as across Finance, Investor Relations, Legal and other business leaders to continuously improve reporting for changing business and regulations.
- Refine SOX and other review procedures across GL and reporting processes, anticipating and preparing for changes
- Improve account reconciliation process, drive deadlines, enhance deliverables as they pertain to the month-end close and financial statement preparation process
- Lead team responsible for research and documentation regarding complex accounting matters including revenue recognition, credit losses, share-based compensation, financial instruments, and leases, and implementation of new accounting rules and reporting requirements in a timely manner
- Enhance the control environment in collaboration with the rest of the accounting team
- Partner with IT to drive system improvements across relevant accounting applications
- Play a leadership role in managing the audit process and building relationships with external auditors
- Lead and develop a world class team
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Degree in Accounting or Finance and a CPA with 12+ years of relevant experience
- Public accounting experience, ideally with technology company clients in FinTech or SaaS based revenue
- Experience in external reporting and technical accounting at a public company
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Inspiring manager who is focused in building and developing a world class team
- Ability to develop relationships, and be an effective cross functional leader
- Experience and skilled at working in a collaborative and fast moving environment
Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
We are Toasters
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.
At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.
The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.
Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.
Bready* to make a change? Apply today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
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