Senior Accountant, External Reporting & Technical Accounting

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Accountant Financial Reporting on our Finance team who is ready to drive the future of mobility with us! 

Interested in driving the preparation and distribution of all periodic financial statements for external use, ensuring compliance with GAAP and SEC reporting guidelines? This role involves managing stakeholders and deliverables supporting the financial reporting process, including quarterly and annual reports, and pervasive cross-functional collaboration with team members across all functions of the organization.

Your Impact

• Serve as the primary preparer in the company’s external reporting process, working closely with the Director of Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting to prepare, compile, and assess disclosures included in Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and support the quarterly earnings release.
• Prepare month-end and quarter-end journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules for assigned general ledger accounts.
• Prepare quarterly stock compensation accounting and reporting.
• Conduct technical accounting research and draw preliminary conclusions on accounting and reporting matters, including but not limited to ASC-718, ASC-842, ASC-350, ASC-210, and FASB ASUs.
• Assist in quarterly reviews and annual audits, preparing audit schedules as necessary.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve accounting and reporting processes using automation routines, artificial intelligence, and other internal resources, and implement process improvements to streamline accounting processes.
• Collaborate with treasury, tax, FP&A, investor relations, and operational accounting teams (both domestic and international) to ensure a smooth reporting process.
• Perform assigned SOX control activities and prepare required documentation.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of SOX control activities and propose improvements to IA and other control participants.

Salary

Salary range of $83,800 - 125,700. (It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range. The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors).

What You Bring - Qualifications

• BS degree in Accounting.
• 3+ years of related experience, preferably a mix of public and private accounting.
• CPA License preferred.

What you Bring - Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• High-level analytical abilities and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, SOX, and the audit cycle of a large accelerated filer.
• Extensive knowledge of Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Visio.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage deadlines and work efficiently and effectively in a remote-work environment.
• Careful attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Flexibility to problem solve and navigate a fluid and fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset, willing to seize opportunities for improvement and implement such improvements.

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.  

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry. 

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:

- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
- Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.

- Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).

- Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.