Accountant

About This Role

• The Role and Impact As an Accountant at Intel, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and improving Intel's financial preparation, ensuring compliance with global financial standards and driving actionable insights that support Intel's decision-making processes.
• By preparing, analyzing, and validating financial records, you will directly contribute to Intel's operational excellence and success.
• Your impact will extend beyond accounting, fostering collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including auditors to ensure seamless financial operations and compliance.
• This is a unique opportunity to grow your expertise and contribute to a global leader in technology.
• This role is a key member of Accounting Operations responsible for supporting the execution, coordination, and continuous improvement of close and reporting-related processes.
• This role combines recurring support for quarter-close activities, management reports / key transaction insights, stakeholder communications, Wdesk and reporting support, control walkthroughs, and balance sheet analytical processes with project work tied to training, process refinement, reporting enhancements, and automation opportunities.
• Key Responsibilities : Support recurring quarter-close and off-cycle accounting/reporting activities, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately, timely, and in accordance with established timelines.
• Coordinate and execute close-related deliverables across multiple stakeholders, while maintaining strong time management and follow-through.
• Help ensure critical action items, review points, and assigned deliverables are closed on time and with appropriate quality.
• Support the smooth execution of close activities by working across teams, anticipating issues, and helping resolve questions quickly.
• Support the preparation, coordination, and continuous improvement of management reports and other key transaction or close insight deliverables.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure deliverables are properly formatted, aligned with reviewer expectations, and supported by clear and relevant commentary.
• Serve as a key point of coordination for functional area finance teams, helping answer questions, provide feedback, and guide stakeholders through close and reporting expectations.
• Build strong working relationships with users and stakeholders to improve process clarity, responsiveness, and overall execution.
• Support External Reporting processes by helping maintain recurring deliverables, uploads, and reporting continuity during periods of transition or changing support models.
• Support preparation and presentation materials for SOX walkthroughs, process reviews, and related control discussions.
• Assist with governance activities such as insider listing management, process documentation, and recurring support for controlled reporting environments.
• Support recurring balance sheet analytical reviews and threshold-based testing, including updates to methodology, categorization, and supporting explanations.
• Prepare and maintain analyses that support review of key balances, trends, and reporting classifications.
• Identify opportunities to improve close and reporting processes, particularly in areas involving repeated back-and-forth, unclear ownership, or inefficient communication.
• Support opportunities to enhance close and reporting processes through AI automation, chatbot capabilities, reporting tools, and digital workflow improvements.
• Operate with a high level of ownership and independence across recurring deliverables, stakeholder support, and project work.
• Balance multiple priorities effectively, including close execution, ad hoc stakeholder needs, project work, and process improvement activities.