Technical Accounting Consultant - Atlanta (Onsite)

The Technical Accounting Consultant role at Resources Global Professionals in Atlanta involves providing technical accounting guidance on complex transactions and business changes. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Finance or Accounting, with 8+ years of relevant experience. Responsibilities include performing technical research, drafting financial statements, and collaborating with teams on accounting compliance. While various workplace arrangements are mentioned, this specific position is onsite.
About This Role

As a Technical Accounting Consultant, you will deliver technical accounting guidance and support to clients through complex transactions and business changes. Our finance and accounting consultants combine their functional finance expertise and project management capabilities with their other broad skills and experiences in accounting, process reengineering, compliance, and systems to help clients drive business change.

What You Will Work On
• Provide technical accounting guidance and support to clients through complex transactions and business changes
• Perform technical research and ensure proper GAAP accounting treatment is performed for all transactions
• Draft and review complex sets of financial statements with disclosures
• Work with cross-functional teams to perform gap analysis of current and future state, develop business requirements and assist in the solution design to enable work streams that comply with newly issued accounting pronouncements
• Assess the impact of new accounting pronouncements on current policies and standards, author memos and accounting policy documents to address the impact from any change in accounting requirements
• Work closely with the accounting and finance teams in addressing day-to-day business activities and associated accounting implications

What You Will Bring
• Bachelor's Degree of Finance or Accounting required
• MBA and/or CPA preferred
• 8-plus years of experience in an external reporting or technical accounting role with a large multinational corporation and/or Big Four or large regional accounting firm
• Strong understanding of FASB, US GAAP, and SEC rules and regulations
• Excellent consulting, influencing, and negotiation skills with the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization with a strong attention to detail
• Experience with ERPs and platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Hyperion or Workiva.

What You Can Expect
• Variety of workplace arrangements including hybrid, remote, onsite.
• Compensation commensurate with employee qualifications, experience, and other factors including geographic location, market, and operational factors.
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, Disability insurance, 401(k) savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase plan, Professional development program, Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required)
• An inspirational place for you to do your best work, be engaged in meaningful ways, and continually develop the skills, competencies, and qualities that set our team apart.

What We Do

As a next-generation human capital firm, we connect the best talent in the market to execute transformation and high-value projects for our global clients-solving problems in the areas of Business Transformation, Governance, Risk and Compliance, and Technology and Digital Innovation.

Our unique consulting model allows you the radical flexibility and control you demand in the "Now of Work," enabling you to define your career path based on your expertise, passion, desire to travel, work environment and life stage. At RGP, diversity, equity and inclusion are critical underpinnings of our shared values. We recognize diversity as a strength that is cultivated through our culture, our people, and our business.

RGP is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected trait and encourage all applicants to apply.

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