Senior Manager, Financial Reporting
Technical Accounting

About the Role
Jeppesen ForeFlight is a high-growth SaaS and On-Premise software company operating with the urgency of a startup and the financial rigor expected by Thoma Bravo, one of the world's most sophisticated technology-focused private equity investors. Acquired in 2025, we are in active build mode establishing the accounting infrastructure, controls, and reporting capabilities required to support scale, audit readiness, and an eventual exit event. We are seeking a Senior Manager of Financial Reporting to build the company's consolidated external reporting function under US GAAP, drive financial reporting through IPO readiness, and serve as a subject matter expert on complex and judgmental accounting matters. This is not a role for someone who maintains what exists. It is a role for someone who identifies what is missing, builds it correctly, and holds the organization accountable to it.

This is Hybrid - 3 days in office per week working from Englewood, CO

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Reporting
• Lead the preparation of consolidated US GAAP financial statements, disclosures and
footnotes for purposes of external reporting to shareholders and creditors
• Develop and own the quarterly reporting calendar and support requests
• Assist in the management and coordination of annual external and internal audits,
ensuring proper accounting treatments and disclosure requirements are followed
• Lead the financial reporting workstream for IPO readiness, including preparation of Form
S-1 financial statements, footnotes, and Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
in compliance with SEC Regulation S-X and Regulation S-K, together with any required
pro forma financial information under Article 11 of Regulation S-X
• Coordinate responses to SEC staff comment letters and partner with external auditors and
securities counsel throughout the registration and review process
• Build the public-company reporting capability required post-IPO, including timely
preparation of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K, XBRL tagging, earnings release support, and
emerging disclosure areas such as segment reporting and earnings per share (ASC 260)
2. Technical Accounting Research
• Serve as the company's subject matter expert on complex and judgmental accounting
matters, such as business combinations, leases, stock-based compensation, debt and
equity instruments, and goodwill and impairment
• Research, conclude on, and document technical accounting positions in audit-ready
memos for new, non-routine, and judgmental transactions
• Partner with Legal and business stakeholders to assess the accounting impact of new
contracts, transactions, and business arrangements
• Monitor, assess, and implement new accounting standards (ASU adoptions), updating
accounting policies and disclosures accordingly
3. SOX Controls: Design, Documentation & Execution
• Design and document the financial reporting control environment (ICFR) from the
ground up, including control matrices, process narratives, and walkthroughs in an
organization building these capabilities for the first time
• Execute and oversee operating effectiveness testing, identifying and remediating control
deficiencies ahead of external audit
• Establish review controls, segregation-of-duties standards, and evidence-retention
practices across the close and reporting cycle
• Partner with internal and external auditors to scope controls and drive SOX readiness for
a public-company control environment
4. Systems: Oracle ERP
• Serve as the financial reporting power user for Oracle ERP, ensuring the system supports
accurate consolidation, reporting, and an efficient close
• Identify and implement system enhancements, automations, and reporting improvements
that reduce manual effort and close-cycle risk
• Partner with IT and FP&A on data integrity, chart-of-accounts governance, and
reconciliation between subledgers and the general ledger
5. Cross-Functional Partnership & Team Leadership
• Lead, mentor, and develop reporting staff, setting a zero-defect standard for accuracy and
timeliness
• Partner across Finance, Legal, Sales, and senior leadership to translate business decisions
into sound, well-documented accounting outcomes
• Communicate complex technical matters clearly and credibly to non-accounting
stakeholders and executive leadership

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• CPA required (active license strongly preferred).
• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 3-5 of direct experience
auditing or preparing SEC (or similar rigor) financial statements.
• Working knowledge of SEC reporting requirements for IPO readiness and public
companies, including Form S-1, Forms 10-K/10-Q/8-K, and SEC Regulation S-X and
Regulation S-K disclosure standards.
• At least 2-3 years in a Manager or supervisory role - you have led people, managed
a reporting cycle, and owned deliverables end to end.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing SOX financial reporting controls,
control matrices, ICFR documentation, walkthroughs, and operating effectiveness testing.
• Track record of building or significantly improving accounting processes in a high-
growth, fast-paced environment where infrastructure did not previously exist.
• Strong written communication skills - you can write a technical accounting memo that
an auditor will accept without a lengthy back-and-forth.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Big 4 public accounting background, with heavy preference given for experience at the
Manager level.
• Master's degree in Accounting.
• Working knowledge of Oracle ERP.
• Exposure to Thoma Bravo or PE-backed company reporting requirements, including
Board package preparation and sponsor financial reporting cadences.
• Hands-on experience taking a company through an IPO or operating as a public-company
reporter, including S-1 preparation, SEC staff comment letter responses, and XBRL
tagging.
You'll Thrive Here If You...
• Can read a complex commercial agreement or transaction document and immediately
identify every accounting issue worth documenting.
• Have written technical memos that Big 4 auditors accepted on the first review and know
what it takes to get there.
• Are energized by building, not maintaining, you find an undocumented process and
immediately start thinking about how to fix it.
• Hold yourself and your team to a zero-defect standard on external financial reporting,
because you understand what's at stake when the numbers are wrong.
• Are comfortable pushing back on Sales, Legal, or senior leadership when a deal structure
creates an accounting problem and can do it constructively.
• Understand that in a PE-backed environment, late and wrong are both unacceptable.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well market and business considerations: Summary Pay Range: $143,000.00- $175,000.00