At Pitney Bowes, we do the right thing, the right way.

As a Financial Reporting Accountant for Pitney Bowes, you can too.

We have amazing people who are the driving force, the inspiration and foundation of our company. Our thriving culture can be broken down into four components: Client. Team. Win. Innovate.

We actively look for prospects who:

• Are passionate about client success.

• Enjoy collaborating with others.

• Strive to exceed expectations.

• Move boldly in the quest for superior and best in market solutions.

Your role in helping us shape the future:

As the Financial Reporting Accountant at Pitney Bowes, you’ll join the Corporate Accounting team in Shelton, CT and report to the Consolidations Manager. You will assist with the preparation of standard monthly, quarterly, and annual internal management financial reports and schedules. The role interfaces with Accounting Operations to extract data and reports from Hyperion reporting system to prepare schedules for inclusion in the Company’s comprehensive Internal Management Report. This position will also provide support in connection with financial statement audits, and in the company's testing and documentation efforts under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 404.

You will:

• Interface effectively with various business partners to address and resolve accounting issues identified during the consolidation process.

• Propose and record adjusting journal entries if necessary, based on review and analysis of business unit submissions.

• Analyze all intercompany activity and work with business units to identify partners and ensure all intercompany activity is properly recorded and eliminated.

• Compile SOX documentation, and interface with external auditors in connection with their quarterly and annual audits.

• Ability to Analyze stock awards, variable compensation, comparing actuals to forecast and proposing adjusting journal entries where necessary.

• Understanding of Restructuring and Financial Statement preparation as plus

• Review quarterly earnings release statements and other Investor Relations documents in preparation of quarterly earnings announcements.

• Assist and support ad-hoc requests and projects

Your background:

As the Financial Reporting Accountant, you will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting required

• 3 - 5 years of relevant accounting or financial reporting experience with at least 1 year in a consolidation role

• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify, understand and document anomalies and variances in financial results

• Comprehensive understanding of financial statements

• Demonstrated ability to take on advanced and challenging assignments and responsibilities

• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills

• Self-motivated and ability to work independently, as well as be a contributing member of a team

• Strong attention to detail and sense of ownership.

• Experience with Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)/ Hyperion Enterprise and proficiency in Excel are a plus

We will:

• Provide the opportunity to grow and develop your career

• Offer an inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and ideas

• Deliver challenging and unique opportunities to contribute to the success of a transforming organization

• Offer comprehensive benefits globally (pbprojectliving.com)

Our Team:

At Pitney Bowes, our passionate and ambitious team delivers innovations that help clients navigate the complex and always evolving world of commerce: from helping them use data to market to the best customers, to enabling the sending of parcels and packages efficiently, to securing payments through statements and invoices. In everything, we do, we deliver accuracy and precision to drive meaningful impact.

Pitney Bowes is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that values diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace.

W/M/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/LGBT are encouraged to apply.

All interested individuals must apply online. Individuals with disabilities who cannot apply via our online application should refer to the alternate application options via our Individuals with Disabilities link. 

Job: Finance

Title: Financial Reporting Accountant

Location: CT-Shelton

Requisition ID: 181329