About this role
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & Review
• Supervise the Project Accountant, including day-to-day workload management, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Review the Project Accountant's monthly billing, revenue recognition, journal entries, and reconciliations for accuracy and completeness prior to closing.
• Hold the team accountable to documentation standards such that an external auditor or reviewer with no prior context could evaluate the reasonableness of the support.
• Identify training needs and hold cross functional teams accountable for providing appropriate, timely
Cross-Regional Liaison
• Serve as the primary internal liaison between the India-based project accounting team, Project Managers in Sweden, and accounting teams in Sweden and the US.
• Coordinate month-end close activities and deadlines across time zones to ensure a smooth, well-communicated close process.
• Resolve questions on project revenue, costs, and account support, escalating appropriately when needed.
Project Accounting & Month-End Oversight
• Oversee monthly billing and revenue recognition in the project accounting module, and perform final validation of project revenue and costs as part of month-end close.
• Review account reconciliations for project-related balance sheet accounts, ensuring balances and reconciling items are clearly documented, supported, and reperformable.
• Critically question balances that are not supported or are significantly aged, and drive resolutions to closure.
• Ensure significant project-related variances are clearly explained in a way that provides valuable insight and supports the accuracy of financial reporting.
Process Improvement & Business Support
• Lead and support ad-hoc process improvement projects across project accounting, partnering with FP&A, IT, and Project Managers.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the Oracle Projects module, identifying missing capabilities or data fields to improve management reporting and financial reporting accuracy.
• Design, document, and maintain effective internal controls and processes to ensure system integrity and compliance with Company guidelines as the organization scales.
• Provide insight and data to drive decision-making as the Company scales operations, implements new systems, and streamlines processes.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or similar field.
• 6+ years of project/cost accounting experience, including prior experience reviewing or supervising the work of others, preferably in a SaaS or enterprise software environment.
• Working knowledge of Oracle ERP (or other comparable system), subledger accounting, and workflows of Projects, Costs, Accounts Receivable, etc. transactions.
• Track record of building or significantly improving accounting processes in a high-growth, fast-paced environment where infrastructure did not previously exist.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience working with Project Managers and other cross-functional teams across geographies.
• Comfortable working across time zones with colleagues in Sweden and the US, with flexibility to accommodate overlapping working hours as needed.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience with US and Swedish GAAP, and knowledge of related accounting principles/theories and concepts (e.g. SOX).
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with the Oracle Projects module.
• Prior formal people-management or review/supervisory experience within an accounting team.
• Experience in global financial operations and/or international financial reporting.
• Experience partnering with teams in Sweden and/or the US.
You'll Thrive Here If You…
• Are a “go-getter” and can take initiative on a project without explicit direction or instructions.
• Want to understand the why behind the way something is done and aren't afraid to make changes when you see a better way.
• Enjoy coaching and developing others, and can hold team members accountable to a high standard with empathy.
• Can clearly articulate accounting concepts to cross-functional roles across regions and will push back when support or rationale is not adequate for recording in the GL.
• Are a team player who can work well with others in a high-growth, fast-paced, global environment.
• Can manage competing priorities across regions while delivering accurate and timely information to stakeholders.
About ForeFlight, LLC:
Jeppesen ForeFlight is a leading provider of innovative aviation software solutions, serving the Commercial, Business, Military, and General Aviation sectors globally. Combining Jeppesen's 90-year legacy of accurate aeronautical data with ForeFlight's expertise in cutting-edge aviation technology, the company delivers an integrated suite of tools designed to enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, and sharpen decision-making.
Why You Should Join: (India)
At Jeppesen ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees and empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide employees and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but is not limited to the following:
• Group Medical insurance
• Group term life, personal accident, and critical illness insurance
• Gym reimbursement
• 20 days of paid vacation time
• 12 days of paid sick time
• Employee Assistance Program