Accountant 3\4
Position within the Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) Revenue Accounting team. We are looking for candidates who are driven by challenges, are motivated by opportunities,
and who are experienced, personable, flexible and versatile financial accountants. Duties include accounting for sales and cost of sales for Commercial Airplanes. This includes the ability to analyze complex transactions, understand detailed contracts, determine proper accounting treatment, and impact to financial statements and forecast. This position requires initiative, problem solving, understanding the overall business context, and collaboration with Contracts, Revenue Management, Airplane Programs accounting, Financial Planning and others. This is a team environment where support of other airplane program accountants and time flexibility is required.
Participation in monthly and year end closing including manual and automated journals, reconciliations, variance analysis, and government reports. Use of PeopleSoft, Revenue Management System (RMS), project costing, and Cognos for internal and external reporting processes. Support of documentation and testing associated with compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other revenue accounting-related functions.
Competencies
General• Adaptability
Understands changes in own and others' work and situations; may be asked to explain the logic or basis for change to less experienced employees; actively seeks information about changes affecting own and fellow employees' jobs. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow interorganizational employees and occasionally to external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationDo you have financial accounting experience?
Do you have experience working with cross-functional organizations?
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
Strong US Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP) revenue recognition knowledge desired. CPA or CPA candidate a plus. Must possess good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Business Unit Commercial Airplanes
- Division Finance & Contracts
- Program Bca Controller Organization
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? No
Closing Date: 02/10/2012
