Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting

BMC Software, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 172,000 - 287,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software, Inc. is seeking a Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting to lead external reporting and corporate accounting across the global organization.

You will manage a team of accounting professionals, interact with senior management, and coordinate with Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Legal, and HR to ensure accurate, timely financial disclosures. The role requires CPA credentials and extensive public company experience, with a strong emphasis on GAAP, SEC reporting, and complex

Qualifications

• CPA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and 8+ years of work experience with demonstrated progression, including proficiency in technical accounting areas.
• Public accounting experience within a Big 4 firm.
• Extensive experience in SEC financial reporting, accounting, and financial controls in a public company environment or public accounting firm.
• Extremely strong GAAP and technical research skills, commensurate with a complex global company environment.
• Proficiency with Oracle and OneStream a plus.
• Strong communication skills, partnering with senior management and documenting technical positions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the global monthly and accounting close process, including developing the corporate close calendar and coordinating with global accounting teams.
• Lead the accounting and internal control activities for share-based compensation plans, bonus plans and other global compensation programs, as well as foreign currency matters and intercompany transactions.
• Perform hands-on technical research and oversight for significant transactions and new accounting pronouncements, serving as the technical accounting resource.
• Manage valuation efforts for goodwill impairment testing, M&A transactions, share-based awards, derivatives, etc.
• Lead the preparation of quarterly and annual investor/lender financial reporting packages and presentations with cross-functional teams and external auditors.
• Lead M&A accounting initiatives including diligence, purchase accounting and integration from an accounting standpoint.

Skills

Technical accounting

GAAP expertise

SEC reporting

Communication skills

Education

CPA certification

Bachelor's in Accounting

Tools

Oracle

OneStream

Job description

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Additional Locations

Houston

Description and Requirements

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

BMC’s dynamic corporate teams are strategic and trusted advisors to the global organization supporting, enhancing, and driving BMC’s vision, culture, growth, and so much more. Each individual within the corporate teams is a valued partner to the overarching success of BMC’s employees and customers If you are looking for a company that gives you the freedom to expand your role, focuses highly on your professional development through continuous enablement, gives you an environment where you would feel happy to come to work, then BMC is the place to be.

Join us as a Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting!

As the Director of Financial Reporting and Corporate Accounting, reporting to the Assistant Corporate Controller, you will be the primary contact for external reporting and corporate accounting for BMC Software. You will lead a team of managers/senior-level accounting personnel, including “dotted line” oversight of the services performed on behalf of Corporate Accounting by the global shared services team in Pune, India. Additionally, you will have significant interaction with other global accounting teams and work cross-functionally with departments within BMC including Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Legal, Human Resources, and others.

Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success:

• Oversee the global monthly and accounting close process, including developing the corporate close calendar, managing the close progress against deadlines, and coordinating with global accounting teams.
• Lead the accounting and internal control activities for share-based compensation plans, bonus plans and other global compensation programs, as well as foreign currency matters, intercompany transactions, lease accounting, derivative accounting, business combinations, debt modifications, and other centralized accounting processes.
• Perform hands-on technical research and oversight, evaluation, and documentation for significant, complex transactions, , new accounting pronouncements, and ad hoc questions, serving as the Company’s technical accounting resource to support other accounting functions such as regional accounting, revenue accounting, and global shared services functions on analyzing and evaluating their complex accounting issues, and serving as principal liaison with the external auditors regarding technical accounting positions.
• Manage and oversee valuation efforts in connection with goodwill impairment testing, M&A transactions, share-based awards, derivatives, etc.
• Lead the preparation of quarterly and annual investor/lender financial reporting packages and presentations, interacting closely with a number of other finance functions as well as legal counsel. Provide oversight of the preparation and analysis of financial statements, footnotes and MD&A, EBITDA reporting, coordination and review of disclosure information sourced from various parts of BMC, document review, and assisting external auditors.
• Lead M&A accounting initiatives including diligence, purchase agreement drafting assistance, purchase accounting (including intangible asset valuation efforts), and integration from an accounting standpoint.

To ensure you are set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:

• You hold a CPA with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and 8+ years of work experience with demonstrated progression, including proficiency in technical accounting areas.
• You have current or prior public accounting experience within a big 4 public accounting firm.
• You have extensive experience in SEC financial reporting, accounting, and financial controls in a public company environment or public accounting firm.
• Extremely strong GAAP and technical research skills, commensurate with a complex global company environment.
• Proficiency with selected software applications; experience with Oracle and OneStream a plus
• You possess strong communication skills, both verbal and written, as the position requires: i) regular partnering with senior management personnel across multiple corporate functions, ii) the ability to concisely document technical positions in the form of critical policy and other memoranda and iii) discussing and defending technical positions, including with external auditors.

Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $172,050 - $286,750