Accountant 3\4
Boeing Engineering, Operations and Technology (EO&T) welcomes you to apply for an experienced accounting position in our Financial Accounting function located in Boeing's Chicago Corporate offices. We are looking for candidates who welcome a challenge, who are motivated to succeed, and who are self starters. EO&T will provide you with a work statement and environment that you will find exciting, challenging and productive. Your efforts will support a variety of financial accounting functions including financial statement and SEC schedule preparation, month-end closing, US GAAP research and whitepapers, international accounting, sales and earnings, lease accounting, hedging, accruals, and account reconciliations. This position will report to the EO&T Financial Accounting Policy and Reporting Manager. It offers excellent exposure to the leadership team and an opportunity to thoroughly understand the accounting function at Boeing. Strong US GAAP knowledge required. CPA preferred.
Competencies
General• Build Positive Relationships
Builds effective working relationships within the work group, with interorganizational employees, and occasionally with external customers. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Seeks agreement from work group, with other employees, and occasionally with external customers to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.
• Business (Financial) Acumen
Accurately performs quantitative financial calculations and/or understands the implications of financial graphs, charts, tables, etc. on own work group, other work groups, and occasionally on external customers. Integrates financial data effectively allowing for the identification of key issues, decision-making criteria, and the determination of strategies and plans for own work group, other work groups, and occasionally with external customers. Contributes to appropriate financial strategies and systems to maximize cash flow and limit risk to the organization.
• Communication
Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.
• Contributing To Team Success
Makes procedural or process suggestions to work group members, other internal employees, and occasionally external customers for achieving team goals or performing team functions; provides necessary resources or helps to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals; listens to and fully involves others in team decisions and actions; values and uses individual differences and talents; shares important or relevant information with the team; adheres to the team's expectations and guidelines; fulfills team responsibilities; demonstrates personal commitment to the team.
• Decision Making
Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
• Managing Work
Identifies critical and less critical activities and tasks within own and other work groups; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Ensures that required equipment and/or materials are in appropriate locations so that own and others' work can be done effectively. Allocates own time to complete work; coordinates own and others' schedules to avoid conflicts. Takes advantage of available resources (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently. Uses time effectively and rarely allows irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.
Technical• Accounting Theory
Basic - Complete knowledge of accounting theory, concepts, and principles in multiple accounting processes (e.g., accounting knowledge related to internal business processes to ensure compliance).
Preferred - Extensive, specialized knowledge of accounting theory, concepts, and principles within the department/organization. Ability to function as an expert source of accounting knowledge to business processes at all levels of complexity and develop accounting procedures and strategies.
• Acctg Systems & Process
Basic - Complete knowledge of how to implement/maintain/document effective internal controls and processes to ensure system integrity and compliance with accounting system requirements and company internal control guidelines and requirements. Complete ability to identify and resolve accounting system issues. Complete ability to support internal/external auditors and provide assistance regarding implementation and problem resolution. Complete ability to support development and deployment of accounting systems and tools.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of existing and new internal controls and processes to ensure system integrity and compliance with accounting system requirements and company internal control guidelines and requirements. Extensive and specialized ability to identifies and resolves accounting system issues. Extensive and specialized ability to supports internal/external auditors and provide expert assistance regarding implementation and problem resolution. Extensive and specialized ability to lead and guide the development and deployment of new accounting systems and tools. Extensive and specialized ability to act as a subject matter expert and training resource for accounting systems and processes.
• Analytical Skills
Basic - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the department level.
Preferred - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources with clients, customers and/or suppliers.
• Financial Reporting
Basic - Complete knowledge of how to prepare standard and ad hoc internal and external financial reports based on accounting information/data in accordance with company and regulatory policies and procedures. Complete knowledge of the financial tools necessary for management to make optimal business decisions.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of how to prepare standard and ad hoc internal and external financial reports based on accounting information/data in accordance with company and regulatory policies and procedures. Extensive and specialized knowledge of the financial tools necessary for management to make optimal business decisions.
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationDo you have at least 4 years experience working with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)?
Do you have a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or are you currently pursuing a CPA license?
Typical Education/Experience
Level 3 - Bachelor's and typically 6 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Level 4 - Bachelor's degree and typically 10 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 8 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Other Job related information
Gathers, analyzes, interprets, prepares and reconciles complex financial information to support the preparation of financial statements. Reviews and analyzes unusual contract terms, conditions and accounting source documents to ensure that complex transactions are correctly classified. Reviews, analyzes and interprets Company directives, policies and regulatory requirements to guide, direct and recommend overall accounting policy and practices. Consults with and advises management, other organizations, customers and auditors regarding accounting policy and classification practices. Surfaces issues and leads process improvement initiatives. Prepares standard and ad hoc internal and external financial reports for management. Implements, maintains and documents effective internal controls and processes to ensure system integrity and compliance with accounting system and Company requirements and guidelines. Identifies and resolves accounting system issues and identifies process improvements. Supports the development and deployment of new accounting systems and tools. Establishes, monitors, maintains and reviews internal controls and documentation for compliance. Works under general to minimal direction.
- Business Unit Engineering Ops & Tech
- Division Finance
- Program Eo&T Controller
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 02/17/2012
