Technical Accounting Manager

Technical Accounting Manager

Location:

US-Remote Location | US-WI-Madison

Company: TDS Telecom

TDS is seeking a highly skilled Technical Accounting Manager to lead enterprise-wide accounting strategy, oversee complex US GAAP matters, and support high-impact corporate initiatives. This role is ideal for CPAs with strong backgrounds in Big 4 audit, technical accounting advisory, SEC reporting, or complex transaction accounting.

As the enterprise technical expert, you will guide leadership through complex accounting issues, own accounting policy, lead the accounting workstream for mergers and acquisitions, and evaluate new FASB/SEC standards. This position offers high executive visibility, significant influence over financial decision making, and the opportunity to elevate accounting capabilities across the organization.

You’ll partner with leaders across TDS Telecom, Array Digital Infrastructure, Corporate Development, Finance, IT, Tax, and Legal while working closely with external auditors, regulators, and the investment community.

This is a strategic, high-impact role for technical accountants who excel at research, policy interpretation, complex transactions, and translating accounting guidance into actionable business insights.

• 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.
• Drive and oversee 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, including 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.
• Prepare and as requested present materials to CEO, executive leadership teams and other key stakeholders.
• With the Director, Operations Accounting, develop and execute 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 various internal and external parties (e.g., 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, establishing learning objectives, course content and facilitation for topics that are targeted to drive expertise in timely and relevant topics to nurture and grow the accounting expertise across the enterprise.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field or equivalent combination of technical and functional experience required.
• 8+ years in Accounting and GAAP required.
• CPA Certification.
• Advanced knowledge of GAAP reporting and research…