# Manager of Technical Accounting

**Company**: Palantir
**Location**: Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,000 - $142,000/year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Manager of Technical Accounting, you will work in a dynamic environment, often focused on multiple projects simultaneously across various functional groups. You will work directly on technical accounting and stock-based compensation initiatives that drive business decisions while supporting quarterly and annual filings.

## Core Responsibilities

- Review and assess technical accounting topics impacting the company, such as non-standard transactions (equity, revenue, debt, VIE analysis, investments, etc.), and evaluate and implement new accounting standards.

- Own end-to-end stock-based compensation accounting under ASC 718, including journal entries, documenting accounting treatment, and financial statement disclosures.

- Support ad hoc projects, analysis, and management initiatives.

- Assist in the preparation and review of the quarterly and annual financial statement, including drafting disclosures.

## What We Value

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to summarise complex accounting and operational issues to management and other business partners.

- Deep and current understanding of U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting principles and regulations.

- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Strong project management and leadership skills, with a track record of handling multiple complicated and cross-functional projects.

- Ability to solve problems, including non-traditional or undefined problems, creatively and analytically.

- Sound judgment and composure in high-pressure situations with an ability to ground decisions in data to ask and answer questions that move the business forward; demonstrate discretion and integrity in all interactions.

## What We Require

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting with CPA license.

- Minimum 3 to 5 years of accounting or auditing experience, including at least 2 years in a technical accounting capacity (in industry or in public accounting).

- Background with technical accounting and financial reporting.

## Skills

### Required
- U.S. GAAP
- SEC reporting principles
- accounting standards
- stock-based compensation
- ASC 718
- journal entries
- financial statement disclosures

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