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TDS is a diversified telecommunications company serving approximately 5.5 million customers nationwide.
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Supervisor – Accounting
TDS®TDS is a diversified telecommunications company serving approximately 5.5 million customers nationwide.
• Provide leadership and direction to Accounting team • Supervising team members, evaluating performance and providing feedback, and facilitating career development opportunities for direct reports • Develops personnel goals and objectives, and determines how to use resources to coordinate the activities of the function in order to meet business schedules and goals. • Development and maintenance of applicable metrics and reporting. • Development of standard processes and documentation. • Identify and lead business process improvement opportunities. • Maintain and foster effective relationships at all levels both within and outside of the company • Research and recommend appropriate accounting treatment for business activities and support applicable memo documentation • Ensure compliance with SOX and other internal controls and standard business practices. • Safeguard company assets (cash, fixed assets, inventory). • Review work product of other team members • Validate work product is accurate and appropriate, including journal entries, financial analysis, external and regulatory reports, etc.
Senior Accountant
TDS®TDS is a diversified telecommunications company serving approximately 5.5 million customers nationwide.
• Monitor, analyze and reconcile general ledger accounts and financial statements. • Review and understand assigned accounts for accuracy and ensure that transactions are properly recorded. • Perform reconciliation, research and resolve discrepancies using finance systems. • Perform analysis related to areas as assigned to identify and minimize discrepancies. • Monitor systems and accounts to ensure accurate and timely financial systems and accounts are processed within GAAP and business unit and regulation guidelines. • Perform account reconciliation and post journal entries, as needed. • Lead regular month-end closing activities including reconciliations, analysis, journal entries, accruals and reporting. • Lead the maintenance of procedural and control documentation. • Accurate application of GAAP (including regulatory specific accounting guidance). • Apply understanding of GAAP to operational accounting functions. • Review and verify the accuracy of account coding. • Provide income tax and transaction tax support. • Prepare and analyze monthly income and balance sheet statements that are used for internal and external reporting purposes. • Respond to financial inquiries; provide requested information for use in effective management of the business and/or meeting external reporting needs. • May be assigned one or more finance functional areas below: Operational Accounting. • Prepare and/or review journal entries in accordance with regulatory and/or GAAP requirements. • Reconcile, research and resolve discrepancies of balance sheet accounts. • Perform monthly income statement and balance sheet analysis to support internal and external reporting. • In addition to the above, Fixed Asset assignments include: Reconcile quarterly and annual physical counts. Monitor, analyze and record construction projects. • Provide and effectively communicate financial information for internal and external audit. • Prepare certain external regulatory filings and reporting. • Lead certain accounting activities as assigned. • Validate work product is accurate and appropriate. • Provide feedback, including sharing best practices, to other team members. • Cash Accounting: Lead the monitoring of cash general ledger accounts and reconciliation of bank accounts and statements for completeness and accuracy. • Analyze the cause of over/shorts related to bank deposits where more complex analysis is required; work with leaders to minimize these discrepancies. • Lead daily reconciliation of all cash and non-cash receipts. • Lead the maintenance of procedural and control documentation for Cash Accounting activities. • Provide support and guidance to team. • Assist in the development and maintaining team procedures and documentation. • Help represent team at project meetings. • Contribute towards the accomplishment of team goals and objectives. • Assist in reviewing the work of others, as well as training and mentoring team members. • Participates on cross-functional teams as required (e.g. acquisition/merger support, billing conversion). • Identify business process improvement opportunities; assist in development and implementation of effective solutions.
Accounting Supervisor
TDS®TDS is a diversified telecommunications company serving approximately 5.5 million customers nationwide.
• Provide leadership and direction to Accounting team • Supervising team members, evaluating performance and providing feedback • Development and maintenance of applicable metrics and reporting • Identify and lead business process improvement opportunities • Ensure compliance with SOX and other internal controls and standard business practices • Review work product of other team members • May be assigned to management of one or more finance functional areas below: • Supervise process to prepare and review journal entries in accordance with regulatory and/or GAAP requirements • Review reconciliations and research discrepancies of balance sheet accounts • Review certain external regulatory filings and reporting • Manage the monitoring of cash general ledger accounts and reconciliation of bank accounts and statements
Technical Accounting Manager
TDS®TDS is a diversified telecommunications company serving approximately 5.5 million customers nationwide.
• Develop and maintain enterprise accounting policies consistent with current GAAP and existing business facts and circumstances; ensure compliance with such policies. • Assess Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) exposure drafts and Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) for applicability to the Company; support ASU implementations and/or prepare interpretive or impact memorandums, as needed. • Provide comprehensive research, analysis, and documentation, on complex and/or new or proposed transactions, contracts, and other accounting matters. • Deliver consultative services and clear, well-supported analysis and conclusions on accounting issues raised by the business units and executive leadership • Develop the accounting analysis and position around strategic activities including mergers, acquisitions and disposition activities across the enterprise. • Assist stock-based compensation team with technical research and/or documentation related to stock-based compensation events, plan modifications, or new facts. • Ownership of triggering events, impairment assessments and going concern tests across the enterprise. • As a key member of the Finance Leadership Team, drives and oversees the vision for an accounting center of expertise that effectively interprets and implements FASB and SEC pronouncements and provides guidance on business matters while being proactive in understanding and influencing proposed standards. • Lead the assessment of critical accounting issues relevant to the enterprise. • Oversee the enterprise accounting documentation process; ensure memorandums and contract reviews are supported by GAAP and the Company’s accounting policies. • Present to executive leadership and broad enterprise finance and accounting teams regularly on relevant accounting topics and positions. • Prepares and as requested presents materials to CEO, executive leadership teams and other key stakeholders. • With the Director, Operations Accounting, develops and executes a stakeholder management plan to ensure ongoing alignment across the key enterprise stakeholders. • Proactively build meaningful relationships with executive leadership, other TDS Corporate and business unit finance functions and leaders as the point person around the Company’s position on accounting issues and matters. • Maintain strong working relationships with other business/finance functions and leaders, especially consolidation and external reporting, treasury and tax functions to complete financial filings in a timely, accurate, and meaningful manner • Coordinate and work professionally with a variety of internal and external parties (such as participating in group conference calls with internal senior financial management, attorneys from our outside law firm, third party audit managers and partners, and technical accounting consultants) • Independently oversee and deliver technical accounting training on a variety of topics to various groups or individuals to enhance technical accounting competence across the enterprise. • Independently manage the organization and execution of the annual Finance Summit.