Lead Accountant

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us

Your opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Accountant to join our global accounting team, and work in collaboration with the department, and the company. You'll be intellectually curious with a strong attention to detail and accuracy, have excellent communication skills both verbal and written, have outstanding analytical skills, and welcome sophisticated problems.

As a Lead Accountant, you will be exposed to multiple areas of accounting, globally across US, APAC and EMEA regions. In addition, you will also support the accounting team in conducting key activities such as month-end close for your assigned financial statement lines across global entities.This role will report directly to the Senior Accounting Manager.

What you'll do

• Handle assigned areas of financial statement accounting for across global regions viz US, APAC and EMEA regions
• Coordinate on a regular basis within country compliance and tax teams to support their filing needs
• Support manager in actively helping make month end closing deadlines in time
• Preparation, review and approval of balance sheet accounts reconciliations.
• Analysis of key P&L accounts to ensure correct accounting for accruals and spends, both OpEx and CapEx
• Preparation of monthly Flux analysis and selective deep dive reviews to ensure compliance with global accounting policies and US GAAP
• Supporting compliance team in handling responses for PBC requests timely for Statutory and Tax audits
• Assist team management to automate routine transactions and various other systems initiatives
• Support the team management on multiple accounting and finance activities for local statutory compliance and US GAAP as needed.

This role requires

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• Having a minimum of 7+ years of work experience in international accounting organizations 
• Good communication skills to keep others informed of process progress and escalations
• Strong experience in accounting following US GAAP principles; knowledge of local GAAPs of any other international regions is a plus
• Systems savvy with a good understanding of ERPs like Oracle Netsuite, SAP, WorkDay and SaaS Accounting Systems and how to extract, organize and analyze data (Power Point, Advance Excel, etc.).
• Ability and experience of interacting with Statutory and Tax auditors for timely audit completion
• Team player, self-motivated, ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Keen eye to evaluate automation opportunities and identifying efficiency measures

Bonus points if you have

• Professional accounting degrees like CWA/CPA/CA/CMA but not a must
• R2R in US GAAP
• Handling multiple legal entities and international accounting closing

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics' different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We're looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

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We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers' means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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