Senior Director, Corporate Accounting

Making sure our customers have an amazing experience is the heart of everything we do.

Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details:

The Corporate Accounting team is responsible for assessing the accounting treatment for material transactions across the company and the preparation, review, submission and distribution of financial reports required by governmental and regulatory agencies, such as US SEC 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K.

You’ll spend your time on the following:

• You will work closely with the Corporate M&A, Finance and Treasury teams on understanding accounting implications of terms and conditions of investments and business combination arrangements, along with other significant transactions and initiatives across the Company.

• Research technical accounting issues to ensure compliance with Company policy and GAAP guidance on various areas including goodwill, investments, leases, share-based compensation, revenue recognition, gross versus net revenue presentation, foreign currency and other matters and prepare related white-paper documentation.

• Facilitate/coordinate the process of implementing new standards and accounting changes to ensure the Company is prepared to comply at the necessary time.

• Managing preparation, review, submission and distribution of financial reports required by governmental and regulatory agencies, such as US SEC 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K.

• Estimation of significant reserves for the Company (e.g. Legal, Refunds and Variable Consideration under ASC 606), including working with the necessary teams to gather operational data to execute the models, and verify that the methodology used in the models are appropriate for new business initiatives and practices

• Assist with ad-hoc questions raised from the business and the relevant accounting implications.

• Lead and grow others; remain aware of each person's career goals; hold development discussions; and provide meaningful tasks and assignments to promote development. 

• Actively managing the team workload, including ensuring continuous process improvement and simplification.

• Liaising with auditors as part of the financial reporting processes.

• Ensuring adherence with SOX requirements.

• May draft or work with investor relations management to prepare sales and earnings press releases, reports for securities analysts, investors and industry groups.

We’re excited about you if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and CPA

• 15+ years of accounting experience

• 7+ years of people management experience

• Direct experience overseeing compliance efforts with the preparation, review, submission and distribution of financial reports required by governmental and regulatory agencies, such as US SEC 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K

• Strong background in technical accounting research and analysis

• Ability to review and interpret new and proposed accounting regulations

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Sound understanding of US GAAP

• You have the ability to multi-task and lead several projects

• Detail oriented with a penchant for preparing meticulously accurate work

• You're enthusiastic, adaptable, and see challenges as an opportunity to grow

• You thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment

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