Sr Accountant

Senior Assistant Financial Controller

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) provides the world's most complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems with annual revenues of $57bn, and over 163,000 employees worldwide, operating in over 175 countries globally. Over the past 10 years, Oracle has consistently delivered earnings growth comfortably ahead of target. Oracle has acquired in excess of 100 companies since January 2005, including PeopleSoft / JD Edwards, Siebel, Hyperion, BEA, SUN Microsystems, NetSuite and Cerner.

The Corporate Accounting team, which supports the Chief Accounting Officers organization, amongst others, is a key part of Oracle's World Class Finance organization. This progressive and innovative team comprises of a dynamic group of financial professionals responsible for Oracle's US GAAP external reporting, external statutory reporting, US & local compliance and fiduciary responsibilities, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

The Senior Assistant Financial Controller supports the Finance Controller in the Corporate Accounting team in further supporting the members of the Board of Directors with the fiduciary responsibility for compliance and protecting the interests of Oracle Corporation (Oracle) and its legal entities that are managed by Corporate Accounting.

The Senior Assistant Financial Controller is responsible for actively managing all aspects of accounting, financial audits and internal management reporting for the legal entities/ company codes managed by the Corporate Accounting team (Corporate Legal Entities). The Senior Assistant Financial Controller will support in enforcing that the Oracle Corporate legal entities are compliant with all US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), local tax, accounting and financial regulations, required by local country legislation.

Specific areas of responsibility will include supporting the GCO (Global Controllers Organization), support and advisory to the Board of Directors of certain Oracle group companies, performing the Financial Controllership of corporate legal entity assets and liabilities; performing the financial reporting of legal entities' results (monthly, quarterly and annually) in accordance with US GAAP and Local GAAP, and, performing the analysis and interpretation of financial results, to manage risk presented to Oracle operations; identifying opportunities for and project manage innovation enhancements in the organization processes.

Responsibilities also include corporate governance, ensuring that Oracle legal entities are operating in compliance of Oracle's policies and procedures, in order to preserve shareholders' value.

The Senior Assistant Financial Controller will work very closely with Middle Management and will work in cross-functional relationships with Oracle's Finance organizations – Global Controller Organization, Technical Accounting, External Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Global Business Finance and SOX organizations. He/she will also work closely with the external auditors.

Responsibilities:

• Manage monthly and quarterly close cycles, ensuring that US GAAP financial reporting is performed timely, in accordance with corporate close guidelines, consolidating all Oracle entities, preparing journal entries, reviewing income statement activity and balance sheet reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial statements.
• Develop and drive the process of intercompany reconciliation between Oracle legal entities.
• Manage accounting entries for various prevailing integration reorganizations of Oracle companies.
• Review the account reconciliations of all the corporate entities for reasonableness and appropriateness.
• Preparation of Balance Sheet and P&L flux analysis of the assigned Corporate legal entities.
• Support the Financial Controllers in the regions with day-to-day activities to ensure compliance with Oracle's policies and US GAAP reporting standards.
• Prepare quarterly schedules for SEC 10Q/10K filings by collaborating with Financial Controllers globally. Support the External Reporting team in preparing the quarterly reports.
• Collaborate with Global Finance Organizations including, Global Business Finance, Tax, Treasury and Legal.
• Responsibility for the preparation and audit management of the statutory financial statements for assigned Corporate legal entities.
• Work closely with external local auditors to get the audit completed within statutory timelines in Ireland and Switzerland.
• Participate in Global & Regional strategic initiatives that optimize and enhance the operations of the Chief Accounting Officer organization.
• Ability to research past transactions and interpret past events and future treatment.
• Support Internal Audit and SOX PMO on the assessment of internal controls, implementing recommendations, reinforcing controls for deficiency and maintaining updated documentation on local processes.
• Acts as a reference for team members, providing direction and mentoring to other members of the organization.
• Collaboration with Tax organization on tax authority information requests and audits.
• Implement best practice system processes and controls for the Corporation and legal entities to comply with all internal and external financial reporting obligations.

Qualifications:

• Professional Accounting Qualification, CPA or equivalent is required.
• BS in Accounting / BS in Business with major in Accounting. MBA is a plus.
• Between 3-5 years of relevant progressive experience in the technology sector with multinational companies/Fortune 500, or public accounting experience in a top 10 accounting firm.
• Experience in corporate accounting, consolidation process and intercompany preferred.
• Good understanding across the breadth of finance responsibilities including, accounting, revenue recognition, treasury, tax, business practices, etc.
• Proficient user in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge and experience with US GAAP accounting, finance and tax regulations. Knowledge and experience of ASC 830 (formerly known as SFAS 52).
• Knowledge and experience of ERP systems. Experience in Oracle Financials and/or other ERP solutions is an advantage.
• Project Management capabilities – the ability to plan, initiate, monitor and implement projects within a team.

Skills and Attributes:

• A proactive self-starter with a desire to learn, innovative inquisitive mindset and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Dynamic, innovative & problem resolution focused, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Results oriented, ability to multi-task and can thrive in a deadline driven environment.
• Ability to immerse oneself to understand problems and propose solutions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and presentation skills to interact with various levels of management.
• Ability to effectively work in a multi-location organization and adapt to different cultures.
• Ability to identify and execute operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives to improve resource optimization.
• Preference to be available to work Pacific Time.