Accounting Manager, Controlling

Company: eBay Inc.
Location: San Jose
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description - Accounting Manager, Controllership

The eBay Controllership team is seeking a highly motivated individual with a combination of technical and operational accounting skills to join the team as an Accounting Manager. This is an opportunity to become a member of a dynamic organization supporting eBay's largest, and multi-billion-dollar Marketplaces platform acting as the subject matter authority supporting the Payments business and driving operational accounting process improvement. Ideal candidates will demonstrate his/her accounting and process knowledge to contribute meaningfully to a winning organization. The successful candidate will find him/herself surrounded by sharp professionals with a diverse set of backgrounds, operating in a fast-paced, intellectual, and team-oriented environment.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

This role is an Accounting Manager position reporting within the Payments Controlling team. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

* Be a trusted and relevant Controlling partner across cross functional groups such as Finance, Accounting Policy, Tax, Legal, Shared Services, Systems and local Accounting and Business teams.

* Support the Payments build through identification of global and local accounting requirements and ensure implementation of relevant financial controls, processes and automated solutions. This includes concept development, requirements identification, user testing and production implementation.

* Build and continually refine Payments journaling, money movement and reconciliation requirements to ensure global consistency while adhering to local requirements.

* Drive the month-end close for the Payments business by validating system entries, preparing key reserve analysis, journal entries, account reconciliations, fluctuation analysis, performing metric evaluation and reporting to Senior Management for the local region.

* Determine SOX implications, modify/implement controls as appropriate, and conduct accounting process reviews with internal and external auditors and local regulators.

* Drive local accounting and regulatory requirements, filings and related audits through timely submission of required schedules and reporting packages and pro-active partnership with internal and external compliance and audit teams.

* Conduct ongoing reviews of accounting processes, internal controls, and overall efficiency to drive process improvements through automation, streamlining and standard methodologies towards a vision of World Class Controlling and collaboration across the CAO organization.

The success of this role will largely be dependent on the ability to manage and collaborate with various partners and ensure month-end processes and accounting systems are crafted and implemented in accordance with the accounting and reporting requirements of the Controllership team. The model candidate will demonstrate a sense of problem awareness, an aptitude for critical thinking, an ability to break down and improve accounting processes and systems, and a vision for future needs.

Basic Qualifications:

Candidates must be self-starters with a solid work ethic and also possess the following:

* 5-7 years' experience in public accounting, preferably Big Four. Experience at a large growth company and a CPA is a plus.

* University degree in Accounting or Finance.

* Solid understanding of US GAAP, local accounting and regulatory requirements, SOX and standard accounting processes and controls.

* Effective communication skills - including the capability to listen to the needs of others, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present findings as well as recommendations in both oral and written presentations.

* Solid analytical skills, and experience applying these skills to resolve operational accounting process and system issues.

* Customer focus and the ability to effectively collaborate and influence in a cross-functional and/or matrix environment; including working with all levels and in multiple locations.

* Comfort with initiating and responding to change; demonstrated ability to use systems to improve accounting processes and controls.

* Ability to set priorities, handle multiple tasks, and deliver results in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

* Strong background in accounting or finance, business processes and internal control evaluation. Ability to design and implement processes in support of new business or governance initiatives and experience leading operational and process change with a drive towards world class controlling processes and controls.

* Solid experience with ERP systems

* Focus on eBay's cultural values

Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you're single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely a diverse set of backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn't just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay's Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/

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