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Technical Accounting Analyst

Philadelphia, PAOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • ASC 718
  • stock-based compensation
  • account reconciliations
  • Excel
  • AI
  • low-code tools
  • management communication
  • cross-functional work

Nice to have

  • Performance Restricted Stock Units
  • ESPP
  • Microsoft products
  • Power Query
  • share-based compensation platform
  • ERP systems

Role summary

Seeking a Technical Accounting Analyst to manage accounting and reporting for global share-based compensation programs. Responsibilities include leading the monthly close, reconciling accounts, modeling awards, supporting disclosures, and partnering with various teams. The role requires strong Excel, Power Query, AI, and low-code tool skills to enhance processes. Ideal candidates are detail-oriented, collaborative, and adept at translating complex accounting requirements into clear business insights.

Join our team as a Technical Accountant and take ownership of the accounting and reporting that supports our global share-based compensation programs. This is a high-impact opportunity for an accounting professional who enjoys combining technical expertise with practical problem-solving—from leading the monthly close and explaining key variances to modeling new awards, supporting disclosures, and partnering with payroll, tax, audit, and other teams worldwide. You will have the autonomy to improve how work gets done, using strong Excel skills, Power Query, AI, and low-code tools to create smarter, more efficient processes. If you are detail-oriented, collaborative, and ready to turn complex accounting requirements into clear business insights, we would love to hear from you.

Job Duties:

Accounting 

  • Ownership of the monthly close process for share-based compensation, which includes recording journal entries, leveraging Power Query workflows as applicable, summarizing expense and explaining variances to Plan and/or Forecast
  • Reconcile share-based comp accounts, research unexplained activity, and work with partners to achieve resolution
  • Reconcile and report Capital Activity
  • Assist with calculations of performance-based awards and past or future modifications to existing awards
  • Assist with purchase accounting as applicable
  • Answer audit and tax inquiries, including statutory reporting requests for entities around the world
  • Record expense for ESPP and true up upon purchase
  • Coordinate with local payrolls when awards vest and reconcile vesting activity
  • Prepare quarterly disclosures
  • Assist in review of the Pay vs. Performance disclosures in the Proxy
  • Calculate intercompany recharges in accordance with agreements

Modeling/Forecasting 

  • Assist with modeling and developing budget
  • Dynamically model ASC 718 expense for potential new awards, providing a quick turnaround and multiple scenarios
  • Provide accounting impact for potential new hires and terminations, providing a quick turn-around

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of experience in corporate accounting or public accounting

  • Familiarity with ASC 718 accounting for stock-based compensation

  • Experience preparing account reconciliations

  • Strong Excel skills

  • Ability to communicate with management and work cross-functionally

  • Process improvement mindset, including leveraging AI and/or low-code tools where applicable

Preferred:

  • Experience accounting for Performance Restricted Stock Units

  • Experience accounting for an ESPP

  • Experience with Microsoft products, including Power Query

  • Experience with Fidelity Plan Sponsor Web Station or another share-based compensation platform

  • ERP experience and systems confidence, including recording journal entries and running reports from an ERP system such as Oracle and/or HFM

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