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Principal M&A Accountant
Location(s): San Diego, California; Mountain View, CaliforniaCompany 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 Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Principal Accountant to lead accounting and finance efforts for M&A, including financial due diligence, purchase accounting, opening balance sheet procedures and intangible asset valuations. You’ll report to the Director of M&A Accounting and Finance Integration and leverage your deep knowledge of US GAAP and M&A accounting best practices to implement processes and develop playbooks to position our M&A accounting function for scale. When you’re not working on transactions, you’ll help evaluate and resolve other complex non-M&A accounting issues, improve, or implement accounting policies, or other high impact technical accounting projects.
Intuit’s Finance team drives business growth and profitability through strategic, financial, and operational leadership. Our team is comprised of finance, accounting, supply chain, corporate strategy & development and tax professionals that support and enhance Intuit's operating efficiencies.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to collaborate and lead across multiple functions and roles to achieve accounting objectives. When issues are identified, the leader will use their strong change management skills and to drive issues through to resolution and subsequent validation with the full transparency of involved stakeholders at all levels within the larger Intuit organization.
Qualifications
- 8+ years relevant accounting experience, CPA, and 4+ years public accounting experience preferred.
- Extensive experience applying US GAAP M&A accounting rules, including but not limited to, advanced understanding of business combinations, purchase accounting and intangible asset valuations.
- Proficiency across accounting processes, including revenue, accounting operations, payroll, equity administration and tax to identify potential M&A impacts.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, project management and verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple outside service providers on fast-paced, high visibility projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to elevate issues to the right level internally and externally to resolve.
- Working knowledge of Oracle R12, Blackline and Spreadsheet Server a plus
Responsibilities
- Conduct or manage outside partners through financial due diligence, opening balance sheet audits, intangible asset valuations, finance back-office integration and other M&A accounting workstreams.
- Evaluate and understand deal terms, employment contracts, and other related agreements, and assess resulting purchase accounting implications.
- Understand targets’ business operations and finance and accounting processes and policies and consider potential financial risk, integration requirements and internal control implications.
- Identify, research and document complex accounting issues and collaborate with our outside auditors to reach mutual resolution.
- Build strong collaborative relationships with key members of our Corporate Development & Strategy, Legal, Finance, Tax and Accounting Operations teams.
- Drive continuous improvements, operational excellence and scalability across our M&A accounting and financial integration processes.
- As needed, you’ll also assist with other technical accounting projects including, but not limited to, evaluating, and resolving other complex non-M&A accounting issues, designing, and implementing or evaluating and revising accounting policies, etc.
- Develops training and outreach programs and delivers this training to business unit and functional team leaders.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Bay Area California $147,000-199,000, Southern California $131,500-177,500. 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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