Senior Corporate Accountant

Position Overview

The Senior Corporate Accountant will be primarily responsible for many aspects of the financial statement close process performed at the corporate level, including financial reporting and multi-entity consolidation. This includes ensuring proper application of US GAAP for various processes, such as ASC 842 Leases, ASC 718 Stock Compensation, ASC 470 Debt, ASC 350 Intangibles - Goodwill & Other, ASC 805 Business Combinations, transfer pricing, and other technical accounting matters. The role is pivotal in driving Diligent’s AI-first transformation, ensuring operational excellence, compliance, and scalable growth across all accounting functions.  

This role will also play a key part in identifying opportunities to leverage AI and automation tools to enhance accuracy, streamline recurring workflows, and drive efficiency across the accounting function. The Senior Corporate Accountant will assist with ad-hoc technical accounting projects and have high-visibility within the organization, ensuring that US GAAP is applied correctly for new company-wide initiatives. This role will report to the Senior Director, Corporate Accounting. We are looking for someone who has excellent problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity about emerging technologies, and enjoys working in a challenging and fast-paced environment to support our continued success.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the monthly, quarterly, and annual general ledger closing process by:
• Owning the accounting for equity compensation and incentive awards including grants issued, grant-date valuation, exercises, expense recognition, modifications, and forfeitures, utilizing the Certent Equity Management solution.
• Calculating transfer pricing, preparing journals, and managing cross-border transactions, including preparation of inter-company entries, coordinate review of output with statutory teams, support tax team with transfer pricing documentation.
• Perform accounting for internally developed software in accordance with US GAAP, including capitalization of development costs, amortization, and impairment assessments for both internal-use software and software developed for sale.
• Prepare the necessary journal entries and monthly account reconciliations for accounts including, but not limited to intangible assets, compensation and payroll related items, and deferred commissions and incentives.
• Provide support to revenue recognition team for a smooth revenue recognition process, write offs, recoveries, deferred revenue and runoff, multi-year arrangements, bundled offerings, flux analysis.
• Review journal entries and account reconciliations assigned, perform monthly close activities to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Financial statement accounts analysis, identification of non-routine transactions, investigate anomalies, and document findings.
• Prepare group and statutory audit workpapers for assigned accounts and disclosures. Support external and statutory audits by preparing schedules, responding to auditor inquiries, and maintaining supporting documentation.
• Provide support or act as accounting lead in enterprise-wide initiatives and assist in other special projects, including but not limited to system upgrades, implementations, and AI-driven process transformations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with finance, tax, legal, and other operational teams on accounting and reporting matters.
• Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the business operations, the financial reporting, and the general ledger structure for all of Diligent’s legal entities, and actively support the consolidation and intercompany elimination process.
• Support in all compliance related matters assigned including, but not limited to, annual financial statement audits, quarterly reporting requirements.
• Provide support or act as accounting lead in enterprise-wide initiatives and assist in other special projects, including but not limited to system upgrades, implementations, and AI-driven process transformations.
• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and contribute to team efficiency through cross-training, sharing responsibilities, and serving as position backup.
• Develop and maintain internal accounting controls, policies, procedures, and process documentation to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Drive process improvement and automation initiatives by identifying use cases for AI-assisted accounting workflows, testing and validating AI-generated outputs, and helping build scalable, technology-enabled processes across the close cycle.
• When assigned, assist or manage the monthly close for newly acquired entities and support the transition of balance sheet and income statement responsibilities to designated team members.
• Champion the adoption of AI-driven automation and modern platforms to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and deliver actionable insights.
• Drive the integration of AI and automation in key accounting processes (e.g., account reconciliations, procure-to-pay, financial statement reviews, cash forecasting, and T&E), freeing teams for higher-value work. 
• Perform ad-hoc projects as assigned.

Required Experience/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting; CPA required.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP required.
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive accounting experience, Big 4 and SaaS industry experience preferred.
• Knowledge of NetSuite or similar accounting systems. Familiarity with AI-assisted tools and a willingness to adopt emerging technologies in an accounting context is a plus.
• Experienced with accounting concepts related to the software industry, international accounting, multi-entity consolidation, and debt & equity accounting is preferred.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and cross-geography and relate effectively across all levels of staff.
• Hands-on, energetic, organized, team player with proven ability to adapt quickly in a changing environment and facilitate change, multitask effectively and work independently.
• Ability to prioritize competing projects and analyze processes to simplify, automate, and improve them, including the use of AI and other emerging technologies.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong business ethics, and demonstrated ability to handle confidential information.