We’re an AI-first team building intelligent, automated, and insight-rich finance processes. You’ll pair your accounting expertise with modern tools to shape how a high-growth, market-leading SaaS company manages its global statutory and intercompany obligations, bringing both scale and rigour to everything you do. This is a newly defined role with real scope and visibility.

If you’re a technically strong accountant who wants to move beyond the transactional, bring structure to complexity, and work in an environment that genuinely values people who challenge the status quo, this is the role for you.

What you’ll do

Statutory Financial Reporting & Global Audit Management
Oversee preparation and filing of statutory financial statements and regulatory filings across all international jurisdictions
Ensure appropriate alignment between U.S. GAAP reporting and local statutory reporting frameworks (IFRS and local GAAP where required)
Maintain strong oversight of local statutory audit processes, ensuring consistent quality and predictable completion timelines
Coordinate statutory audits globally across all jurisdictions, driving standardised audit readiness processes and documentation standards
Maintain strong relationships with local auditors and external service providers supporting statutory reporting
Formally document all technical accounting positions supporting the statutory financial statements, maintaining a clear and audit-ready record of judgements and policy elections across jurisdictions

Intercompany & Cross-Border Accounting

Partner with the teams to drive the global framework for intercompany accounting, settlements, and cross-border funding activities
Collaborate with the Business Applications team to ensure the ERP and wider technology stack appropriately supports intercompany and cross-border accounting processes, including system configuration, automation capabilities, and scalability to meet evolving business requirements
Responsible for the management of intercompany recharges and the maintenance of strong intercompany relationships across all group entities
Review transfer pricing journal entries in collaboration with the Corporate Accounting team, ensuring accuracy and completeness of charges posted across group entities
Work with both the Tax and Corporate Accounting teams to operationalize the transfer pricing process across the group and validate outcomes
Preparation and review of reconciliations of intercompany balances as part of the consolidated financial reporting cycle and statutory reporting cycle
Provide support on reconciliations and other ad hoc Finance tasks as required, collaborating with the broader Accounting team to meet month-end and period close deadlines
Oversee accounting for capital contributions, dividends, intercompany loans, and other cross-border financing and treasury initiatives
Own the intercompany settlement process in coordination with Treasury, ensuring timely and accurate resolution of intercompany balances across all entities
Ensure ongoing compliance with intercompany agreements
Review cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) and FX gains/losses associated with intercompany activity for reasonableness, and escalate significant variances as appropriate

International Entity Governance

Maintain comprehensive entity compliance calendars, statutory governance requirements, and local regulatory obligations across jurisdictions
Partner with Legal and Tax to support entity formation, restructuring, liquidations, and entity rationalisation initiatives
Monitor the regulatory landscape across all operating countries to anticipate and assess the impact of changes on the Company’s compliance obligations

Process Transformation & Automation

Design and implement scalable statutory reporting processes that reduce manual effort and improve global compliance visibility
Leverage ERP capabilities, workflow automation, and emerging technologies to modernise the global statutory reporting infrastructure
Establish standardised templates, reporting frameworks, and governance models across jurisdictions
Design efficient process and procedure enhancements for all aspects of intercompany accounting, driving consistency and reducing manual effort across the global entity footprint
Manage and lead finance transformation projects as required, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver process improvements and system enhancements

Required Experience/Skills:

Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with 8+ years progressive accounting experience
Demonstrable experience managing statutory financial reporting and audit processes across multiple international jurisdictions
Solid understanding of intercompany accounting, transfer pricing concepts, and cross-border transaction flows within a multinational group
Experience in a global finance function of a multi-location, multinational corporation — SaaS or technology sector background a strong advantage
Strong technical accounting knowledge across US GAAP or IFRS, with the ability to document and defend complex positions clearly
Working knowledge of NetSuite or a similar ERP; comfortable engaging with Business Applications teams on system configuration and process improvement
Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-geography, managing multiple stakeholders across Finance, Tax, Legal, and Operations with confidence
Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage competing deadlines across jurisdictions and drive accountability in others
Mindset for automation and continuous improvement; proficient with spreadsheets and data tools, and eager to pilot AI-assisted workflows to raise the bar on what Finance can deliver

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About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast. Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimaging workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking. Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together. At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

Learn more at diligent.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook

What Diligent Offers You

Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney.  To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

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Manager, Statutory & Intercompany Accounting

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