Senior Manager, Corporate Development Accounting

Weights & Biases Weights & Biases · Data AI · New York, NY +1 · Finance

Senior Manager, Corporate Development Accounting role focused on accounting and reporting for M&A transactions and strategic investments. Requires strong technical accounting, valuation, and business acumen, with experience in complex accounting issues, purchase price allocations, and financial due diligence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the accounting and valuation of M&A transactions and strategic investments in support of CoreWeave’s inorganic growth.
  2. Oversee the accounting analysis for Corporate Development related transactions, and work with 3rd party valuation specialists on purchase price allocations and valuation of privately held strategic investments.
  3. Support financial due diligence and M&A integration on an ad-hoc basis.
  4. Draft high quality accounting memos and analysis for topics such as ASC 810, ASC 323, ASC 321, and ASC 320 for the purposes of supporting management’s conclusions and obtaining concurrence from external auditors
  5. Monitor the financial performance of CoreWeave’s portfolio of strategic investments, including quarterly impairment analysis and identification of transactions that would necessitate fair value remeasurements

Skills

Required

  • CPA
  • 8+ years of progressive accounting experience
  • significant exposure to M&A transactions
  • business combinations
  • complex investment accounting
  • Prior Big 4 audit or transaction advisory experience, or equivalent in-house M&A accounting role
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Proven ability to build financial processes and internal controls from scratch
  • Strong analytical skills
  • ability to critically evaluate valuation methodologies
  • assess complex security structures
  • Executive-level communication skills
  • experience preparing board-level materials
  • Proficiency in financial modeling
  • comfort working across Excel, accounting systems, and collaboration tools
  • Ability to work independently
  • manage multiple priorities
  • drive projects to completion with minimal supervision

Nice to have

  • curious about M&A deals and strategies within a rapidly scaling cloud infrastructure provider
  • leader in all aspects of M&A accounting related activities including valuation, internal controls and SEC reporting

What the JD emphasized

  • M&A transactions
  • business combinations
  • complex investment accounting
  • purchase price allocations
  • valuation