Senior Manager, Accounting Policy

Title: Senior Manager, Accounting Policy

Location: NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas

Job Description:

Full time

job requisition id

Job_Req_49230

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.  EEO/Disabled/Vets

Job Description :

Role - Senior Manager, Technical Accounting

Location - 1211 6th Avenue

Hybrid - In Office three days a week

News Corp is looking for a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, to join its corporate finance team
in Midtown Manhattan. This individual will be responsible for assisting in technical accounting
research and analysis to ensure compliance with applicable accounting rules, regulations and
Company policies. These responsibilities include the evaluation of actual and proposed transactions,
US GAAP technical issues, the adoption of new accounting standards and related accounting policy
implementations. This role has regular interaction with business unit personnel and corporate
departments, and will also assist with the quarterly SEC filings and earnings related documents.

Responsibilities:
● Provide technical accounting guidance and interpretation for News Corp business units on a
wide range of technical areas including but not limited to: business combinations,
dispositions, goodwill and intangible asset impairment, revenue recognition, leases, stock
compensation and pensions and capitalized software
● Assist in technical accounting research and analysis to ensure compliance with applicable
accounting rules
● Oversee the annual impairment reviews for the Company’s goodwill and indefinite-lived
intangible assets
● Assist in accounting policy projects and new accounting standard implementation
● Assist in monitoring external accounting and FASB/SEC developments that potentially
impact News Corp’s financial statements
● Review 10-Q, 10-K, and other SEC filings to ensure they are accurate, timely, and compliant
with SEC requirements
● Provide direct support on various special projects
Required Qualifications
● 5-7 years of public or private accounting experience
● CPA
● Experience with technical accounting research and preparing technical accounting position
papers
● Familiarity with Accounting Standards Codification
Preferred Qualifications:
● Big Four auditing or accounting advisory experience
● SEC reporting experience a plus

 

Job Category: Finance Team

About Us
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating
and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The
company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information
services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and
pay-tv distribution in Australia.
Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United
States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Job Category:

Pay Range: $125,000 - $150,000 Plus Bonus

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.