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Principal Accountant, Risk and Controls

Category Finance Location San Diego, California Job ID 2024-58804
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Come join Intuit's Controllership, Assurance, and Operations (CAO) organization as a Financial Risk and Controls Leader. We are looking for creative problem solvers with a passion for innovation to join our team and revolutionize the way the world does business.

This is a Principal role within the CAO organization, with the role located in San Diego, CA. This leader is primarily responsible for supporting the Controllership function.  They will be a key member of working teams to influence, contribute and lead assessments of risk across accounting and reporting operations in line with a dynamic and evolving business environment. This leader will work through risk assessment, design of internal controls over financial reporting across a broad array of business processes, optimization of the existing control environment to be future-ready and industry leasing, and evaluate risk and mitigation strategies for deficiencies.

The ideal candidate will have experience within management assessing, developing and implementing internal controls over financial reporting within Tech and/or Fintech company. Other relevant experience includes controls related audit/advisory within public accounting or internally at a large public company.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage reporting of risk gaps (vulnerabilities) and control issues as well as influence cross-team decisions to prioritize closure.
  • Lead the design of internal business process controls over financing reporting (ICFR) and operational controls to provide reasonable assurance over the achievement of relevant applicable compliance frameworks (including SOX-404)
  • Support new (and changes to existing) processes by providing consultative risk assessments and designing/proposing controls
  • Oversee monitoring and maintenance for existing and future internal controls, risks and vulnerabilities across the Controllership
  • Make decisions based on data, risk assessments and accounting guidance; drive end-to-end outcomes independently
  • Transparently communicate decisions, trade-offs, plans, goals and strategies across multiple organizations to ensure alignment to the objectives and teams to do their jobs effectively
  • Understand the end-to-end operational, financial, and systemic environment and key upstream and downstream processes that drive financial and customer impacts
  • Provide assurance and drive strategy to support Risk and Accounting functions for new offerings, and business changes

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of relevant audit and SOX experience, Tech, Fintech or Software industry experience preferred.
  • Tech or Fin-tech industry, public accounting, large public company experience highly desirable.
  • Advanced accounting knowledge for financial statements and internal controls over financial reporting (including business process manual controls and ITGCs) and risk functions.
  • Strong end-to-end process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, project management, and problem-solving skills. Proactively addresses issues, owns the outcome, and continuously strives for best in class processes and deliverables.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functionally and at all levels of management. Effectively navigates social dynamics of teams, groups, and organizations.
  • Experience successfully navigating a dynamic, multi-business unit environment across all levels of management and across business units and functions.
  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills, time prioritization and risk assessment.
  • Applies a testing/validation mindset.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to elevate issues to the right level internally and externally to resolve. Superior ability to clearly articulate a point of view and adjust communication style and content to suit audience needs. Frames complex issues into simple stories.
  • Strong PC, worksheet and word processing skills.
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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Southern California $135,500 - 183,000. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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