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Job Description

The New York Times' Accounting team is looking for a Senior Accounting Analyst who has knowledge reviewing contracts and transactions. You will determine proper accounting treatment, and record following generally accepted accounting principles. You can query and analyze data sets, summarize data in a concise and meaningful manner, and highlight insights that help inform validating recorded transactions. This is a hybrid role based in our New York headquarters, reporting to the Senior Accounting Manager. You can typically expect to be in the office 3 days per week.

About the Role

As a Senior Accounting Analyst, you will participate in month end closing work including the preparation of journal entries and balance sheet account reconciliations. Have the opportunity to recommend, document, and implement processes to facilitate the proper accounting of revenue and expense contracts. Furthermore, you will collaborate with partners to foster communication, learn about new contracts and products, improve processes, and to ensure the accuracy of accounting and reporting.

Responsibilities

Review customer contracts and other transactions and ensure/document the proper accounting following ASC 606 or other relevant accounting standards.
Query, mine, report on data sets and use data analytics tools to validate and support recorded transactions.
Help research accounting questions related to internal and external reporting issues to ensure that financial results are reported in a complete and accurate manner consistent with our policies and accounting guidelines.
Compile information to satisfy requests from our external auditors.
Support NYT's Sarbanes-Oxley program by participating in quarterly and annual assessments, testing, review and remediation of test exceptions.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Basic Qualifications

Degree in Accounting or Finance
Certified Public Accountant
3+ years of accounting experience
Knowledge of technical accounting pronouncements and standards (GAAP, FASB)
Advanced excel skills (i.e. macros)
Experienced communicating across multiple partners and ability to work cross functionally, including the ability to understand goals and and translate into transactional and reporting impacts
Experienced analyzing and summarizing complex financial data in a clear manner.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience using Workday
Demonstrated passion for news, media, and journalism

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Additional Compensation and Benefits

For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$95,000—$105,000 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.