Technical Accounting Manager

Overview

Step into a high‑impact role where you will shape the accounting strategy for the entire TDS enterprise. As the Technical Accounting Manager, you will be the go‑to expert guiding senior leadership through some of the Company’s most complex and strategic financial decisions.

• Serve as the enterprise expert on complex accounting matters by conducting robust research, performing detailed analysis, documenting conclusions, and advising leaders on new or proposed transactions, contracts, and emerging technical accounting issues.
• Present regularly to executive leadership and enterprise‑wide finance and accounting teams, translating complex accounting topics into clear, actionable insights that influence decision‑making.
• Lead the accounting strategy for strategic corporate initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other key transactions across the enterprise.
• Own and evolve the Company’s enterprise accounting policies, ensuring they remain current, compliant, and effectively implemented across all business units.
• Analyze new and proposed FASB guidance, including exposure drafts and Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs), evaluate applicability to the Company, and support implementation efforts.
• Develop and deliver technical accounting training, creating learning objectives, course content, and facilitation that strengthen accounting expertise across the organization.
• Lead enterprise‑wide monitoring and evaluation processes, including triggering‑event reviews, impairment assessments, and going‑concern analyses.

You’ll partner closely with internal stakeholders—including Array Digital Infrastructure, TDS Telecom, and senior finance leadership—as well as external stakeholders such as investors, regulators, and the broader investment community through SEC filings.

This role places you at the intersection of technical depth, business insight, and executive visibility—giving you the opportunity to influence enterprise‑level accounting direction, support strategic decision‑making, and elevate financial expertise across TDS.

• Develop and maintain enterprise accounting policies consistent with current GAAP and existing business facts and circumstances; ensure compliance with such policies.
• Assess FASB exposure drafts and 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. This includes collaborating with business units and executive leadership and external auditors or consultants on significant strategic initiatives, acquisitions and divestitures, significant contracts, financings, and the like.
• 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.

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