Accountant

Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members. Our company and its members are committed to acting with integrity, being respectful and accountable to one another, and staying humble and driven, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.

We are steadfastly committed to attracting the best talent across our communities creating a rewarding workplace. Together we are fulfilling our purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future.

Woodward supports our members' wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position. Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

• Estimated annual base pay: $60,560.00(minimum) - $75,700.00(midpoint) - $90,840.00(maximum)
  • All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity.
  • 401(k) match (4.5%)
  • Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
  • Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members

• 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays.
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire

• Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits.
• Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
• Member referral bonus

• Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
• Voluntary benefits, including:

• Home / Auto Insurance discounts
• Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave

Are you ready to make your mark? If you're an Accountant, we have an exciting opportunity for you. This position reports to a leader within the Finance organization. The key purpose of this position is to provide financial accounting support in accordance with applicable regulatory and statutory requirements, and with Woodward policies and procedures. This position requires a moderate to high level of supervision; most work is still reviewed by the finance leader or a more senior accountant. In addition, this level has a significant amount of interaction with internal customers.

What You Will Be Doing

• Understands and applies basic accounting principles to transactions of a routine nature as needed to ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Creates and posts basic journal entries in the General Ledger on a monthly basis to support the period end General Ledger close process.
• Prepares consolidated financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and stockholders equity statements, along with comprehensive footnotes in compliance with GAAP and other regulatory standards.
• Supports annual and quarterly filings.
• Prepare and analyze pension-related journal entries, including actuarial adjustments, service costs, interest costs, and expected returns on plan assets.
• Analyzes basic transactions or account balances to provide insight into account balances, period account activity, or specific journal entries.
• Runs standard reports (General Ledger, BPC, Business System) to facilitate reporting and analysis.
• Maintains schedules, templates, subsidiary ledgers, worksheets or other documents on an ongoing basis in order to ensure timeliness, consistency and accuracy of reported items.
• Performs reconciliation of general ledger account balances to supporting detail data on a monthly or quarterly basis in order to ensure the accuracy, validity and completeness of reported account balances. Applies appropriate disposition to reconciling items in a timely manner, or solicits help in doing so.
• Participates in process improvement and automation projects as needed to help achieve lean process objectives.
• Performs ad-hoc tasks and participates in special projects related to areas of responsibility as requested.
• Supports preparation of material for monthly and quartertly Leadership Team meetings.
• Supports internal and external audit requests for areas of responsibility.
• Supports and leads statutory audit requests for areas of responsibility.
• Supports maintenance of Sarbanes-Oxley documentation for areas of responsibility.

What We Are Looking For

• US - Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) required
• Less than 2 years' related experience required
• Experience working at a global company
• Basic computer experience and skills including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, core ERP System, General Ledger, etc.
• Ability to successfully apply basic US GAAP to situations and transactions.
• Experience preparing or auditing financial statements in compliance withUS GAAP
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• International Locations: Ability to effectively communicate in English.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Basic skills in problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Able to identify potential improvements in areas of responsibility.

Application window is anticipated to close 30 days from original posting date.

This information is provided in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and is the company's good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons.

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce. The ITAR defines a U.S. Person as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident (i.e., 'Green Card holder'), or a protected person (e.g., asylee, or refugee).

Woodward is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local laws.

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