Wonder

Senior Manager, Technical Accounting

Wonder$149K — $157K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • CPA required
  • 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including Big 4 and industry
  • Deep technical accounting expertise, with memo-writing skills
  • Experience with SEC reporting (10-K/10-Q) strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with complex capital structures (preferred stock, SAFEs, etc.)
  • Experience with high-volume share-based compensation
  • Strong Excel and systems skills, familiarity with equity administration systems preferred

Responsibilities

  • Research and document technical memos on complex transactions
  • Prepare annual and interim financial statements and disclosures
  • Build and maintain the financial disclosure framework
  • Manage the financial statement close calendar and ensure compliance
  • Coordinate with external auditors to facilitate the audit process
  • Partner with Legal on transaction structuring and accounting implications
  • Develop scalable processes and controls as the company matures

Benefits

  • Competitive salary package including equity and 401K
  • Multiple medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Various undisclosed benefits and perks available
Full Job Description
About The Opportunity

We are a high-growth, multi-brand consumer company that has scaled rapidly through acquisition and is preparing for the financial reporting rigor of a public company. We are seeking a Senior Manager of Technical Accounting and External Financial Reporting to own complex accounting conclusions and drive the production of our external financial statements. This is a high-visibility role, partnering closely with the CFO, FP&A, Legal, and external auditors.

The Impact You Will Make

Technical Accounting
  • Research and document conclusions on complex transactions in audit-ready technical memos, including:
  • Debt and convertible instruments, including embedded derivative and beneficial conversion analyses (ASC 470, ASC 815)
  • SAFEs and other freestanding financing instruments, including classification and remeasurement (ASC 480, ASC 815-40)
  • Warrants and equity-linked instruments (ASC 815-40, ASC 480)
  • Preferred stock classification, rights, and preferences across multiple series (ASC 480, ASC 505)
  • Share-based compensation, including RSUs with liquidity-event performance conditions and stock options (ASC 718)
  • Leases, including a large multi-entity lease portfolio (ASC 842)
  • Business combinations and purchase accounting for acquisitions (ASC 805)
  • Revenue recognition (ASC 606)
  • Serve as the technical resource for new accounting standard adoptions and assess their impact


External Financial Reporting
  • Own the preparation of annual and interim financial statements and footnote disclosures, including condensed quarterly statements in a public-company 10-Q style (Regulation S-X Article 10)
  • Build and maintain the disclosure framework, including footnote rollforwards (leases, share-based compensation, debt, equity)
  • Prepare supporting workpapers and tie-out binders that reconcile disclosures to underlying source systems
  • Manage the financial statement close calendar and disclosure checklist compliance
  • Coordinate directly with external auditors to support the audit and review process


Cross-Functional Partner
  • Partner with Legal and Corporate Development on transaction structuring and the accounting implications of financings and acquisitions
  • Work with Equity Administration and the cap table/equity systems to validate share-based compensation and capitalization data
  • Help build scalable processes, controls, and documentation standards as the company matures toward public-company readiness


What You Bring to the Table
  • CPA required
  • 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including a mix of Big 4 public accounting and industry
  • Deep, hands-on technical accounting expertise across the standards listed above, with demonstrated memo-writing ability
  • Experience preparing external financial statements and footnotes; SEC reporting (10-K/10-Q) experience strongly preferred
  • Experience with complex capital structures (multiple preferred series, SAFEs, warrants, convertible debt)
  • Experience with high-volume share-based compensation
  • Strong Excel and systems skills; experience with equity administration systems a plus
  • Ability to operate with autonomy in a fast-paced, acquisitive environment


As a matter of company policy, Wonder does not sponsor applicants for employment visa status for this role.

Our hybrid model requires 3 days a week in the office. That said, many team members choose to come in more often to take advantage of in-person collaboration and connection. You're welcome-and encouraged-to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

NYC Base Salary: $149,000-$157,000 per year

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.

About Wonder

World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Portsmouth-born Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions, with credits including the Million Dollar Listing docuseries, RuPaul's Drag Race, and the documentary films Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Together, Bailey and Barbato have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, the BBC, Netflix, and VH1. World of Wonder is perhaps best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known LGBTQ production is RuPaul's Drag Race, having managed the career of drag queen and titular host RuPaul for many years before this, eventually producing the franchise alongside the majority of its live shows, podcasts, television specials, and conventions.
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