Director, Technical Accounting & Policy - CDK Global - Hoffman Estates, IL

Director, Technical Accounting & Policy - CDK Global - Hoffman Estates, IL -

Stability meets Agility.

With greater than $2 billion in revenues, CDK Global (NASDAQ: CDK) is a number one international supplier of built-in info know-how and digital marketing options to the automotive retail business. CDK Global offers options in additional than 100 nations, serving greater than 27,000 retail places and most automotive producers.
CDK Global’s options automate and combine important processes from pre-sale focused advertising to the sale, financing, insurance, elements provide, restore and upkeep of automobiles, with an growing concentrate on using knowledge analytics and predictive intelligence.
From knowledge scientists to sales and operations specialists, we’re hiring to help your progress and ours – Inexperienced mild your profession .
The Director – Technical Accounting and Policy will handle CDK’s technical accounting coverage and analysis perform. The position is predicted to companion with numerous enterprise stakeholders, perceive underlying transactions, analysis the accounting requirements (U.S. GAAP), and doc our conclusions in memos and accounting insurance policies, to make sure CDK compliance.

Place Duties & Important features

Replace and improve CDK’s international accounting insurance policies, making certain compliance with U.S. GAAP

Present coaching to the CDK Accounting and Finance staff

Put together technical accounting memos for brand spanking new, complicated, or uncommon transactions

• Monitor accounting points to make sure oversight and SOX compliance

Present accounting experience for Enterprise Improvement exercise

• Carry out due diligence of potential acquisition targets


• Oversee buy accounting for acquisitions, together with critiques of valuations for intangible belongings and goodwill


• Assessment different transactions, which might embrace license preparations, divestitures, joint ventures, and so forth.

Drive the implementation of latest accounting requirements, together with however not restricted to:

• Coordinate with Exterior Reporting on monetary assertion disclosures associated to new accounting steerage


• Present vital help as CDK implements the brand new income recognition accounting normal – ASC 606


• Lead CDK’s implementation of the brand new lease accounting normal – ASC 842

Companion with Accounting, Working Phase Finance, and Company Finance features (e.g. Tax, Treasury) to resolve accounting issues

Evaluation vital contracts (vendor and buyer) to guage accounting penalties

Work intently with exterior auditors to deal with the accounting for vital transactions

Talk with senior management on technical accounting issues and different tasks

Qualifications & Job Necessities

10+ years of professional expertise, together with technical accounting publicity, OR

eight years of expertise, with three years of heavy technical accounting focus (e.g. accounting coverage, income recognition)

Schooling: Bachelor’s Diploma

Certification: Licensed Public Accountant (CPA)

Expertise & Talents: Vital technical accounting expertise, U.S. GAAP

Valued expertise:

• Public accounting expertise at a Massive four or a Nationwide agency, most popular


• Expertise with public corporations / SEC filers, most popular


• Open to candidates instantly from public accounting, or with a mixture of public accounting and business expertise


• Publicity to software program / SaaS / know-how corporations is useful however not required


• Information of multinational corporations can also be useful


• Robust interpersonal, analytical, and communication expertise each verbal and written


• Should have robust technical accounting expertise and up-to-date information of the newest accounting and reporting requirements


• Should have the ability to handle a number of tasks with competing priorities

CDK Global is aware of you’ve passions outdoors of labor. You might have household, associates, sporting occasions, and plenty of issues happening. That’s why we provide a complete advantages package deal to not solely care for you however your loved ones as properly. All of our advantages are efficient the primary day of employment together with 401Okay matching, paid day off to re-energize, donate your time to volunteer in your group, and tuition reimbursement to call a couple of.

CDK Global is an Equal Alternative Employer; Minorities/Ladies/Veterans/Disabled.
We consider that variety in all features of enterprise results in power.

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