Manager - Financial Reporting Group

Manager - Financial Reporting Group

Equity Methods seeks a results-focused, growth-oriented professional to manage client engagements serving finance and accounting teams at Fortune 500 companies. As a Manager in our Financial Reporting Group, you’ll apply your aptitude for finance, technical accounting, and/or economic analysis with a passion for client service to deliver world-class reporting to publicly traded companies.

You’ll interface with our clients’ finance, treasury, controllership, FP&A, tax, executive compensation, and legal teams. You’ll gain deep experience in managing complex client relationships, maintaining and enhancing our focus on excellence and pristine client service, coaching and mentoring junior staff, and more. You’ll also participate in next-level training programs and gain exposure to broader business topics in preparation for a wider leadership role within the firm.

If you enjoy problem-solving, are comfortable with excelling in client service and mastering technical topics, and have a collaborative mindset, we’d like to meet you and discuss this exciting role!

The Role in a Nutshell

• Serve as the face of the firm in equity compensation-focused financial reporting engagements, which requires command of technical subject matter, client interaction, technological automation, project management, and proactive communication.
• Manage a portfolio of clients, both from the day-to-day service perspective and the overall relationship with EM. Be accountable for the end-to-end client experience and help clients understand other ways in which EM can support them.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert, taking a hands-on approach to projects, assisting in internal reviews, and training/coaching junior staff.
• Work effectively with internal teams while delivering high quality advisory services to client-side management and executive teams spanning multiple functions in the client organization.
• Perform research into novel technical areas and clearly explain the analysis and results both internally and externally.
• Explain complex technical issues in plain English to clients.
• Support service innovation and deliverables upgrade initiatives from ideation to design, development, and client prototyping.
• Supervise associates, providing coaching and feedback aligned with our apprenticeship-based, promote-from-within culture.
• Contribute to EM’s best-in-class thought leadership platform by participating in the writing and publishing of material that showcases the firm’s expertise and ability to explain complex topics in digestible prose.

We are:

• Zealous about exceptional client service and delighting every client, large or small.
• Lean and agile. We don’t have managers who sit back and just talk.
• Growth-oriented, both in welcoming new clients into the fold and seeing professional development in our outstanding colleagues.
• Feedback-heavy and mentoring-rich. Our consultants achieve professional growth via hands-on client experience and feedback from leaders. And our reward systems incentivize mentoring, not hoarding business.
• All about impact. Our professionals love the opportunity to make an impact on clients, each other, and the long-run trajectory of the business.
• Eager to solve clients’ toughest problems, even when these challenges are riddled with ambiguity and complexity.
• Committed to clarity. We go the extra mile to produce plain-English deliverables that clients find easy to consume but remain rigorous because clients value our ability to make the complex simple for them.
• Hardworking. All the above items take time, even for very smart and efficient people. We don’t punch out at 5 when clients need us.

Qualifications & Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience in a role that involves financial reporting, financial modeling, economic analysis, or related analytical problem-solving.
• Proficiency in accounting and finance and the common technical tools through which financial reporting is approached today.
• Strong Excel skills and/or the ability to manage data via analytical tools (e.g., SAS, PowerBi, etc.).
• Solid client management skills and a passion for delighting clients through flexibility, adaptability, and customization.
• Some prior experience supervising junior talent and delivering coaching/feedback that helps them upskill.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a business discipline that relates to the role.
• Ability to quickly grasp technical accounting, finance, and economics concepts and apply them to real-world fact patterns.
• Strong ability to manage multiple, complex workstreams, evolving priorities, and varied deadlines.
• Strong detail and accuracy orientation.
• Ability and willingness to think critically and solve “out-of-the-box” problems independently.
• Ability to excel in both the technical and business/client dimensions of consulting.
• Experience in any of the following is highly desirable:
  • Share-based payment accounting (ASC 718 and IFRS 2)
  • Tax reporting (ASC 740)
  • Earnings per share accounting (ASC 260)
  • Forecasting and budgeting for external reporting purposes
  • Proxy disclosures
  • GL systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday)
  • Audit review procedures
• Background check required.

More About Equity Methods

Equity Methods is a finance, accounting, and human capital consulting firm that embraces the synergistic role of technology and subject-matter expertise to create exceptional client engagements. We deliver impact-rich services across three core practice groups: financial reporting, valuation services, and HR advisory.

With over 125 professionals and experience over 1,000 publicly traded clients (including 50 Fortune 100 companies), Equity Methods combines the best traits of an industry-leading professional services firm with the best of an entrepreneurial, technology-enabled company. For 10 consecutive years, Equity Methods has been rated #1 in client satisfaction and loyalty among financial reporting providers in Group Five’s Stock Plan Administration Benchmarking Study. We have consistently been rated a Top Company to Work for in Arizona.