Associate Director, Revenue Accounting COE in London

Our Mission Advancing Essential Intelligence.

About The Role

The Team: The Business Unit Corporate Controller's team is responsible for financial accounting across S&P Global related to Record to Report, Global Real Estate and centralized accounting support across the income statement. The team values collaboration and the ability to think critically while problem solving. The role reports to the Associate Director, Senior of Revenue Accounting, part of the S&P Global Corporate Controllers organization.

Responsibilities And Impact

• You will provide support to both the corporate finance and business unit FP&A teams.
• You will lead an organization of 5-8 individuals who manage the month-end close in support of complex revenue accruals and contribute value added analysis across the S&P Global finance organization.
• The ideal candidate is adept in ASC 606 and working with business and FP&A teams to ensure appropriate revenue recognition practices in line with US GAAP.
• They must be comfortable reviewing business processes and designing or updating existing accounting processes to ensure appropriate revenue recognition.
• This role requires experience building and implementing accounting processes utilizing run rate models, unbilled/usage reports, and billing analysis.
• The candidate will present findings in group settings to members of the senior leadership team.
• Lead a team that is a key contributor to the month-end close and monthly revenue reporting.
• Train and develop your direct reports.
• Partner with the business teams by understanding various complex products and providing actionable revenue solutions.
• Conduct research and synthesize large quantities of data into actionable analysis for management.
• Provide and present in-depth revenue analysis for various products, customers and their impact on the bottom line.
• Understand and apply best practices related to revenue recognition and strong internal controls.
• Key point of contact for S&P Global's ASC 606 accounting scenarios.
• Manage and deliver on internal/external audit queries timely and accurately.
• Create and update complex revenue accrual models.
• Influence and contribute to decision making across all internal stakeholder levels of seniority.

What We're Looking For

Basic (Required) Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience related to public accounting, asset management, financial planning and analysis, or economic analysis.
• CPA/CA (US) or ACA/ACCA (UK) qualification.
• 5+ years of experience managing a team.
• Strong Excel and data manipulation skillset (including large data sets).

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Offshore team management experience.
• Experience designing, building, and testing workflows in Alteryx to support analysis of large and complex data sets.
• Adaptive to new technologies and platforms, passionate about solving business problems, improving efficiency.
• Exposure to ACV and ACV/Revenue reconciliations.
• Experience analyzing data and creating visualizations and dashboards to support business decision (Tableau / PowerBI / PowerPoint).
• Ability to see projects through to successful completion.
• Demonstrated interest in financial markets.
• Experience in ERP system e.g. Oracle, SAP, Salesforce CPQ.
• Familiarity with database tools e.g. QlikView, SmartView.
• Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 2-3 days a week in person attendance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.