Senior Director Corporate Accounting

Company Overview:

Cellebrite’s (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to enable its global customers to protect and save lives by enhancing digital investigations and intelligence gathering to accelerate justice in communities around the world. Cellebrite’s AI-powered Digital Investigation Platform enables customers to lawfully access, collect, analyze and share digital evidence in legally sanctioned investigations while preserving data privacy. Thousands of public safety organizations, intelligence agencies and businesses rely on Cellebrite’s digital forensic and investigative solutions—available via cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments—to close cases faster and safeguard communities. To learn more, visit us at www.cellebrite.com, https://investors.cellebrite.com/investors and find us on social media @Cellebrite.

Position Overview:

The Sr. Director will oversee all areas of public company reporting and corporate accounting operations. This includes SEC reporting, consolidations, international accounting, technical accounting, SOX execution, and financial systems and operations (e.g., payroll, accounts payable, etc.). With the Company’s focus on growth through organic and business development initiatives, it is critical for the Sr. Director to drive the development and deployment of rigorous and standardized processes (systems, reporting, etc.) and to accelerate the quality of financial information used by key stakeholders for strategic decision making. The Sr. Director will lead a diverse accounting team and will report to the SVP Global Finance. The Sr. Director will play a critical role in helping the business take a quantum leap in utilizing our systems, tools, and people to scale the business and deliver key insights.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain focus on internal controls over financial reporting, SOX execution, continuous improvement of global accounting policies and procedures, standardization of accounting practices, and compliance with US GAAP as well as local statutory requirements.
• Lead the close and consolidation processes including close coordination with FP&A.
• Prepare all materials for the Audit Committee and Disclosure Committee.
• Direct the preparation of the internal consolidated financial statements, earnings releases and the Company’s recurring SEC filings including Form’s 10-K and 10-Q.
• Assist and manage external audit, quarterly reviews, etc. and interface with auditors on all requests.
• Partner closely with all operating and corporate groups to support their needs for transaction accounting and reporting.
• Oversee the preparation and issuance of technical accounting papers and company position papers.
• Ensure the functionality of all financial reporting controls as defined by Sarbanes-Oxley for the various corporate groups (IT, Legal, HR, PR, Business Development) as well as Corporate Accounting.
• Evaluate, develop, and oversee policies and procedures consistent with the Company’s financial objectives to support long-term growth strategies, cost effectiveness, and compliance enforcement.
• Communicate and enforce global company-wide financial reporting policies, procedures and controls.
• Take a leadership role in the Company’s upgrade projects for critical systems and processes. Implement changes and develop new suggestions for improving cross functional operating processes.
• Develop, establish, and maintain an effective organizational structure and staffing plan to meet internal needs and company goals.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to staff to further the creation of a “learning community” and an organization that seeks excellence in controllership and business processes.

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree or higher in accounting; CPA and over 10 years of experience; Big 4 experience required.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles; experience in a high tech company with software sales and complex deal structures.
• Significant experience and responsibility for a global public company’s SEC reporting, operational transaction processing, and systems.
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills; able to understand and apply complex accounting theories, concepts and processes.
• Ability to appropriately prioritize and multi-task. Demonstrated experience leading teams. Must have recruited, trained and led a team of accounting professionals during expansion and significant growth.
• Demonstrated experience at successful collaboration with stakeholders in Finance, Legal and Sales and an ability to continuously improve processes and develop efficiencies.
• Proactive and confident in identifying problems and solutions; tenacity and attention to detail and process are considered valuable attributes.
• Experience in designing or redesigning financial systems which produce useful operating metrics.
• Hands-on approach with attention to detail, organization, reliability and a “get it done” attitude – and will dive in to get things done right, and engage in detailed policy compliance oversight and design