Director of Corporate Accounting

• Own the complete GL across all entities and ensure accuracy, completeness, and audit defensibility.
• Drive a predictable, well-controlled monthly and quarterly close, targeting a sub-5 business day close with documented and repeatable processes.
• Review and approve manual journal entries posted by direct reports.
• Own the chart of accounts and enforce discipline around new account creation requests, ensure the structure scales as we add products, geographies, and business units.
• Maintain a complete, current balance sheet reconciliation framework with no unreconciled items older than 30 days.
• Build and enforce month-end close checklists with clear owners, due dates, and escalation paths, no more close-by-committee.
• Manage consolidation across multiple legal entities in 14 countries, including full intercompany elimination schedules.
• Own foreign currency translation, including functional currency determinations per entity, CTA roll-forward, and remeasurement vs. translation analysis.
• Maintain an intercompany agreement register and ensure all intercompany transactions are properly documented, priced at arm's length, and eliminated on consolidation.
• Prepare and own the consolidated financial statement package (Balance Sheet and Income Statement).
• Lead the transition to or optimization of Oracle FCCS (Financial Consolidation) as the authoritative consolidation tool.
• Support the CAO and external auditors through the annual audit and quarterly reviews, own PBC lists, manage fieldwork timelines, and ensure zero repeat findings.
• Identify and remediate control gaps ahead of the SOX readiness assessment; build a controls framework that can scale to SOX 404(b) compliance post-IPO.

• Oracle ERP or other comparable system: Serve as the GL module owner. Drive period-close automation, subledger reconciliation workflows, intercompany netting, and financial reporting configuration. Partner with the Systems team on all GL-impacting changes, upgrades, and new module rollouts. Own the chart of accounts and segment value governance.
• Coupa or similar procurement system: Partner with Procurement and AP on PO lifecycle management, ensuring 3-way matching integrity and accurate accrual reporting. Own the month-end AP accrual process and ensure Coupa-to-Oracle reconciliation is clean and documented. Drive adoption of budget-to-actual visibility to reduce manual accrual estimates.
• Navan or other travel & expense system: Own the expense accounting workflow end-to-end, expense policy compliance, GL coding accuracy, reimbursement cycle integrity, and Oracle integration reconciliation. Identify and remediate coding errors or policy violations before close. Partner with HR and Legal on travel policy governance.

• Directly manage a team of 10 accounting professionals and build the team as the company scales.
• Set clear performance expectations, provide real-time feedback, and develop your team into the next generation of accounting leaders.
• Create career development plans and ensure your team has the tools, training, and system access to do their jobs without unnecessary friction.
• Hire and onboard new team members as scope expands; actively recruit for technical strength and cultural fit.

• Partner with FP&A to align actuals to budget variance reporting and ensure the close package is usable for business decisions.
• Work with Legal and Tax on entity structure changes, transfer pricing implications, and new jurisdiction entries.
• Partner with other functions within broader Corporate Accounting and Treasury teams on various other matters.

Basic Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience; at least 3-4 years in a director-level or seniormanager role.
• Proven ownership of a multi-entity, multi-currency global consolidation process.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP.
• Oracle ERP, must have owned GL module operations, not just been a user.
• Hands-on experience with AP accruals, A/P workflow and GL mapping
• Working knowledge of expense workflow and GL mapping.
• Experience operating in a pre-IPO or high-growth environment where processes were built,not inherited.
• Strong understanding of SOX ICFR design and operating effectiveness, even if not yet in a404(b) environment. 
• 10% Travel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Big 4 public accounting background (Manager level or above) or comparable public company experience.
• CPA (active license strongly preferred)
• Experience with Oracle FCCS for consolidations.
• Experience operating in a PE-backed environment, you understand sponsor reporting cadences, covenant compliance, Board package expectations, and the accountability that comes with institutional ownership.
• Familiarity with Quality of Earnings (QoE) processes, purchase price allocation, and M&A integration accounting.
• Understanding of debt compliance reporting (credit agreement covenant calculations, lender reporting packages).
• Exposure to add-on acquisition accounting, opening balance sheets, PPA, goodwill roll-forwards, and rapid integration into consolidated reporting.
• Understanding of the SEC reporting (10-K/10-Q, MD&A support, disclosure checklists) or exit preparation (CIM support, data room management).
• Understanding of SaaS-specific accounting complexities: ARR/MRR reporting integrity, multi-element arrangements, channel partner revenue, and usage-based billing.
• Has managed accounting through at least one Big 4 annual audit as the primary client-side owner.

• Have a bias for clean, documented, repeatable processes and find shortcuts in close processes genuinely offensive.
• Are comfortable saying "that's not the right accounting treatment" to a VP or a founder and backing it up.
• Can manage ambiguity without losing control of the close calendar.
• Want to build something — not just maintain it.
• Have done the IPO prep work and know what "audit-ready" actually means at 11:00 PM the night before a deliverable is due.

About Jeppesen ForeFlight:

Why You Should Join (USA):

• Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums
• Open PTO Policy
• 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
• 12 Weeks Paid Parent Leave
• Flight Training Rewards
• Work Model: Hybrid — 3 days in office per week