Accounting Manager

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Life at F5 is never dull. We are constantly identifying industry trends and disruptions, then innovating to get ahead of future customer needs—creating application services that help the world’s leading organizations deliver their critical business apps faster and with the highest levels of flexibility, security, performance, and support.

But our success is not driven solely by what we do. We also care deeply about how we do it. At F5, our culture is how we live, every single day. And it is producing extraordinary results—not only for our customers but also for our employees. We understand that your life is about more than just work, so we are committed to a culture that supports your whole life. At F5, we truly do help each other thrive.

We are looking for an Accounting Manager to join the Guadalajara office with a dynamic opportunity to work on a variety of Latin America (“LATAM”) based accounting projects and initiatives to take F5’s Global Accounting Team to the next level! As an Accounting Manager with F5, you will work in a collaborative team environment across multiple business functions and be provided with exposure to a wide range of accounting matters. This will include contributing to accounting system implementations, automation/process improvement ideas and the deployment of new processes related to evolving business requirements.

Position Summary

This role will cover a wide range of areas under the scope of F5 GL Accounting within LATAM. This includes preparing and maintaining the accounting for the Company’s LATAM based subsidiaries as well as managing regulatory compliance requirements for those subsidiaries. This role will frequently partner with internal F5 stakeholders, locally based accountants and external auditors.

Primary Responsibilities

• Reviewing, compiling and recording monthly journal entries that include transfer pricing, inter-company activities, and other operating activities.
• Perform monthly reconciliations to support the completeness and accuracy of applicable balance sheet accounts.
• Manage required legal entity regulatory reporting and communications within the LATAM region.
• Collaborate with HR, Payroll and other departments to ensure regulatory compliance as well as complete and accurate accounting results.
• Oversee local accounts payable functions including required Coupa inputs, processing and approvals.
• Review and coordinate preparation of audit deliverables on a timely basis and be the primary liaison to local accountants as well as internal and external auditors.
• Leverage automation solutions (Alteryx, UiPath, etc.) to design and implement process improvement initiatives to streamline and modernize our accounting environment.
• Manage regional accounting system implementations, as needed. This work may include project management, requirements gathering, process and system design, partnering with stakeholders, and communication to management.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Other responsibilities

• Uphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and model the Be F5/Lead F5 Behaviors.
• Promptly report violations of the Code or other company policies.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements for doing business in Mexico and Latin America.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and local statutory accounting rules.
• Oracle eBS experience is strongly preferred.
• Expertise in process automation tools using Alteryx, UiPath, or like solutions preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Coupa Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Blackline Account Reconciliation preferred.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with a high attention to detail; sound judgment showing logic-based decision-making, and a hands-on approach with stakeholders.
• Strong project management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments globally.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Flexible and open to new ideas and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5 or more years of experience working in a large public accounting firm or multi-national corporate enterprise is preferable.
• Candidate with a CPA (or equivalent) is preferred, but not required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Duties are performed in an office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table.
• Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material.
• Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.