Lead Accountant
Intuit
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Location(s): San Diego, CaliforniaCompany Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
Come join Intuit’s Corporate Accounting & Reporting organization as a Lead Project Accountant to accelerate money solutions for Intuit’s customers. Through our TurboTax and adjacent offerings, our goal is to power the prosperity of our customers by providing faster and easier access to money when our customers need it most.
The role requires a blend of strong foundational accounting skills, operational rigor, and strategic planning in service to powering our customer’s prosperity in parallel to delivering business value. Specifically, this requires active management and reconciliation of orchestrated cash distribution, systemic collection management, and analytics to appropriately account for related reserves.
To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have the ability to collaborate and lead across multiple functions and roles, possess strong accounting foundations, leverage data backed analytics to instill confidence and identify opportunities for growth.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of technical accounting experience with accruals, journal entries, and account reconciliations, with experience in the lending field
- Ability to interpret and present technical accounting details in lay terms to non-accounting business partners
- Strong technical (GAAP) and financial accounting skills and ability to document accounting conclusions in a technical white paper
- Ability to work hybrid out of our San Diego office
- Public accounting or large public company experience strongly preferred
- Analytical thinker who can identify and implement effective processes improvements
- Large accounting software package expertise (Oracle financials, etc).
- Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills, strong written and oral communication skills
- CPA preferred
- BS or BA Degree preferred or equivalent work experience
Responsibilities
- Understand the end-to-end operational, financial, and systemic environment and key upstream and downstream processes that drive financial and customer impacts.
- Stay connected to current business strategies to ensure appropriate accounting operations are established and performed.
- Responsible for applying, enforcing and executing the Company's accounting & operational policies as it relates to the role.
- Perform analysis to support reserves ranging from bad debt to contra-revenue
- Proactively present accounting positions to enable accurate and timely financial forecasting.
- Apply professional skepticism and an inquisitive approach to review and analyze the appropriateness and reasonableness of underlying accounting principles that support reserves.
- Able to clearly articulate results, variances and demonstrate an understanding of root cause to management.
- Work closely with business unit partners, accounting leads and internal/external auditors on accounting matters.
- Comfortable working with cross functional teams in order to understand company offerings and implement accounting models that properly account for both assets & liabilities according to accounting principles and company policy.
- Streamline analytics & operational capabilities to ensure efficient & accurate accounting results.
- Participate in the month and quarter end close process and related responsibilities for the accounting department.
- Establish controls necessary to ensure that forecasts and financial statement classifications are compliant with Intuit company policy and GAAP.
- Prepare and maintain reports / schedules for senior management, prepare schedules requested by internal and external auditors.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Southern California $112,500-152,500. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
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"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
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"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
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"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"It's a great feeling knowing that when you push out a new feature or fix, our customers notice it and really love the work that we do! Here at Intuit, not only do we have the freedom to work with the newest technologies, but we value solving challenging financial problems for our customers above everything else."
"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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