Company Overview

At Nuance, we empower people with the ability to seamlessly interact with their connected devices and the digital world around them.  We are creating a world where technology thinks and acts the way people do by designing the most human, natural, and intuitive ways of interacting with technology.

Our nimble technology uses analytics and advanced algorithms to transform the inanimate into animate and reduce complicated processes into simple ones.

Job Summary

We are a leading provider of voice recognition and natural language understanding solutions with approximately $2 billion in annual revenue. Our footprints span across virtual assistant on mobile phones, infotainment platform in connected cars, omni-channel customer engagement in Fortune 500 companies, to AI powered clinical documentation for hospitals and clinics. 

About Our Team

We are a small, highly collaborative, and strategic team with a lot of visibility, working closely across the business operations, Finance, and Accounting functions to support our organization’s strategic initiatives, including acquisitions and divestures. We are the connectors of accounting literature and the business substance. If you enjoy learning the stories behind the numbers, you are hungry for results, and you love a challenge, this is the place for you. In Nuance Finance, we strive to grow and achieve.

About the Senior Analyst, SEC Reporting & Technical Accounting role:

• Support the company’s SEC reporting process, prepare/compile, review, and assess the disclosures included in Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and quarterly earnings release.
• Evaluate disclosures both qualitatively and quantitatively based on SEC and FASB guidance.
• Assist with the research of technical accounting and reporting issues, including evaluating the impact of new accounting guidance on our financial statements.
• Support our technical accounting research efforts related to complex transactions, such as, acquisitions, divesture, hedge accounting and debt financing.
• Support the quarterly stock compensation accounting process, including but not limited to: running reports from Equity Edge, reviewing/reconciling data, preparing journal entries and preparing fluctuation analysis.
• Maintain the operational accounting related to certain accounts (goodwill, intangible assets, deferred acquisition payments etc.) and prepare periodic account analysis.
• Support goodwill/intangible impairment review analysis. Work with external firms and cross-functional teams to understand and assess the valuation methodologies and assumptions.

Qualifications of the SEC Reporting & Technical Accounting role:

Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A. /B.S.) or equivalent in accounting or business-related discipline.

Experience: 5 years of related experience, with prior experience with a national public accounting firm preferred but not required.

Required skills: Excel (pivot table)

Preferred, but not required skills:  Equity Edge, software industry experience, stock compensation, purchase accounting.

Additional Information

Nuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment. We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.  

Nuance Communication Inc.  is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster and its supplement is available here. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 781-565-5086 – Human Resources Department and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.