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Overview

This role is a Group Manager role within the CAO organization. The position is located in San Diego, CA.

This leader is primarily responsible for ensuring the accounting and operations functions are working accurately, efficiently, aligned to our policies for asset and real estate accounting and for driving the strategy to attain those goals. This person will be an experienced manager who will lead the team that works closely with functional & business partners throughout Intuit.

The team is composed of accounting managers and senior accountants. This is a highly visible and exciting role in the Finance controllership group in service to accurate asset accounting and strategic partnership in service to supporting Intuit’s People & Places goals, which are in service to Intuit’s overall growth. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills with the ability to organize self and team to deliver against critical objectives and priorities. They will be able to navigate difficult issues and individuals successfully and align stakeholders in service to a common outcome. This leader will be able to independently design and implement strategies, operating mechanisms, and organize/deploy resources to plan for organizational capacity at scale. With accounting as the foundation, this leader leverages their business acumen and influence to tackle tough challenges and transform operations from an end-to-end perspective.

What you'll bring

• Bachelors’ degree in Accounting/Finance with minimum of 12 years’ postgraduate experience, or equivalent experience. CPA required. MBA highly desirable.

• 12+ years of relevant experience in technical accounting and financial reporting for large accelerated SEC filers in high-growth industries. Software or SaaS industry experience a plus. Four or more years of public company audit experience.

• Prior management experience is required. Experience managing teams of 5-10 resources with varying levels of experience. Ability to keep team members engaged and motivated while delivering high quality results.

• Superior technical accounting, financial systems knowledge, and internal controls over financial reporting.

• Strong end-to-end process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, project management, and problem-solving skills. Proactively address issues, own the outcome, and continuously strive for best in class processes and deliverables.

• Experience with developing requirements, reviewing end-to-end processes, and contributing to and validating system design on implementations of enterprise financial reporting systems.

• Ability to deliver outstanding business outcomes with effective and fast decision making that takes into account the interests of all four key stakeholders – employees, customers, shareholders, and partners

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functionally and at all levels of management. Effectively navigates social dynamics of teams, groups, and organizations.

• Proven leadership, change management, and process management skills, including the ability to think and lead multiple complex projects simultaneously.

• Confidence, good judgment, energy and personality to work in a dynamic, multi-business unit environment across all levels of management and across business units and functions.

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, time prioritization, resource deployment, and risk assessment.

• Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation and influencing skills, including the ability to elevate issues to the right level internally and externally to resolve. Superior ability to clearly articulate a point of view and adjust communication style and content to suit audience needs. Frames complex issues into simple stories.

How you will lead

• Lead across a broad set of accounting functions. Knowledge base should be comprehensive across technical topics, but also include general accounting areas including, but not limited to: Real Estate Leases (ASC-842), capital projects, fixed assets, prepaids and other assets.

• Through review, variance analysis/metrics and monitoring, ensures the appropriate classification of external financial reporting (P&L), with explanations and research for significant and unexpected variances.

• Lead with a transformational mindset and drive to design operations that are forward-looking and industry leading.

• Understand the end-to-end operational, financial, and systemic environment and key upstream and downstream processes that drive financial and customer impact. Develop and drive strategy to support asset accounting and business changes. Actively plan and mobilize teams towards more complete automation of asset accounting. Must possess the leadership qualities necessary to drive change and adoption of the strategy.

• Executes to success through diligent planning, attention to detail, effective delegation, efficient decision making, and individual/team accountability with focus on speed to benefit. Ensure proper application of Intuit policy and US GAAP through a principles-based approach, proper training and effective execution and monitoring. Develops new positions and interpretations as needed. Stays connected to current business and offering strategies.

• Makes decisions based on data and accounting guidance and drives end-to-end outcomes independently. Transparently communicate decisions, trade offs, plans, goals and strategies across multiple organizations to ensure alignment to the objectives and teams to do their jobs effectively.

• Ensures proper oversight of activities of the staff and develops the team to deliver results along with their own personal leadership growth. Fosters a team environment that encourages trust, accountability and excellence in delivery. Attracts, develops, motivates, and retains talent within those teams and at times in the broader CAO teams

• Proactively leads and influences cross-functionally and at all levels of management. Cultivates strong relationships with leaders in Accounting, Finance, and across the Business in order to facilitate timely, high-quality decision-making in connection with accounting matters.

• Works well through ambiguity, with confidence in making tough calls and leading through adversity with a sharp focus on driving the right outcomes.

• Uses excellent communication skills to inspire confidence in decisions and provide transparency as to status and trade-offs, with the ability to bridge between accounting, technical, and business mindsets with ease.

• Monitors the internal and external environment and anticipate desirable change. Stays current on evolving Accounting Standards pronouncements and updates under prevailing regulatory bodies (FASB, SEC), incorporating into current Company policy as necessary. Maintains active relationships with professional colleagues outside the company in order to understand current best practices.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.