Corporate Accounting Manager

Posted: 2026-10-28

Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our mission is to get people offline and into the real world at prices that make it possible. We're an AI-native company in the middle of a platform transformation, moving from a deals marketplace to an experience discovery platform that works for customers and merchants at the same time.

- Research complex and non-routine technical accounting matters and prepare white papers documenting the Company's conclusions under US GAAP, for areas including revenue recognition (including variable consideration and principal-versus-agent), share-based compensation, contingencies, goodwill impairment, leases, investments, going concern and business combinations.

- Own recurring quarterly and annual technical accounting workstreams end-to-end, from gathering data through documenting conclusions and closing out auditor questions, including the evaluation of identified errors under SAB 99 and SAB 108.

- Develop and review significant management estimates, including validating the inputs, methodology and outputs of estimation models and explaining what drove changes period over period.

- Evaluate the accounting for significant contracts, transactions and new business initiatives with Operational Accounting, Tax, Legal, Treasury, Corporate Finance and other business partners, and explain the financial reporting impact to senior management before decisions are made.

- Assess new and proposed FASB and SEC pronouncements, lead the adoption of assigned standards, and keep the Company's accounting policies current.

- Draft and review the financial statement footnotes and supporting schedules for your technical accounting areas in Forms 10-Q and 10-K, and support the SEC Reporting team on registration statements and other filings as needed.

- Serve as a primary point of contact for the external auditors on your workstreams during quarterly reviews and the year-end audit.

- Design and operate effective internal controls over financial reporting for your workstreams, including clear evidence of review.

- Use AI tools and automation to reduce the time spent on recurring, volume-based work, such as first-pass research, contract and assessment review, and memo drafting, and document the review steps so the results are auditable.