Sr. Corporate Accountant

You’re following your purpose – and there’s still more to come. Keep developing your skills and explore all that you can do across our global company. As part of Jacobs’ Corporate Accounting team, you’ll join a group of strategically focused professionals who work with process owners worldwide. Working together, we’ll help you grow and pursue what fulfills you so that we can make impacts on the future – big and small, global and local.

Jacobs is currently seeking a Corporate Accounting Senior to work in a dynamic, challenging, global environment who will cultivate and deliver excellence in Jacobs’ Corporate Accounting Group. We’re looking for a team player with the desire to be an active, long-term contributor in the growth of the accounting teams and organization overall.

Key aspects of the role include:

• You’ll direct, review, or prepare schedules, journal entries, trial balance loads and account reconciliations. You’ll also coordinate, review, or prepare various flux analysis for P&L and balance sheets.
• Opportunities to identify and drive process improvements will both leverage and enhance your skill set.
• Experience and ability to guide and review the work of others will be critical, as you’ll handle project accounting review and analysis, review of work performed at Global Business Services centers, trial balance load for acquisitions, a portion of the annual proxy statement, and other assignments.

The role allows you to interact with other departments and increase your business acumen. Your accounting knowledge contributes to the success of the company and ensures all duties performed and reviewed are in compliance with US GAAP, Company policies and procedures, SEC reporting requirements, and the Sarbanes-Oxley act.

As the Senior Corporate Accountant, you’ll regularly and successfully engage in:

• Participating in the development and maintenance of policies and procedures for global accounting activities and continuous improvement process including automation and acceleration
• Reading, understanding, following, and testing the applicable process narratives pertaining to Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements
• Interacting with team members around the world – including Europe and Asia Pacific
• Providing support as needed to external auditors
• Preparing ad hoc reports and analyses

Bring your excellent collaboration and organizational skills and a desire to deliver exceptional work, and we’ll help grow what drives you.

The preference for this role is a hybrid work environment, with availability of local Dallas candidates to wpend time in the Dallas office. For non-local candidates, a fully remote arrangement will be considered.

To meet compliance with work on US government projects US citizenship is required.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• Active CPA license
• Professional accounting experience to include at least 1-2 years of public accounting audit experience
• Professional experience using Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and vlookups for large volumes of data
• Understanding of consolidations, international accounting and reporting issues
• Technical knowledge and understanding of US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and controls

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Big 4 audit experience
• Experience with a large ERP system, preferably Oracle
• Experience using consolidation tools for analysis of actuals, forecast and budget
• Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and process improvement skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and external auditors

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