• Develop and maintain enterprise accounting policies consistent with current GAAP and existing business facts and circumstances; ensure compliance with such policies. • Assess Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) exposure drafts and Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) for applicability to the Company; support ASU implementations and/or prepare interpretive or impact memorandums, as needed. • Provide comprehensive research, analysis, and documentation, on complex and/or new or proposed transactions, contracts, and other accounting matters. • Deliver consultative services and clear, well-supported analysis and conclusions on accounting issues raised by the business units and executive leadership • Develop the accounting analysis and position around strategic activities including mergers, acquisitions and disposition activities across the enterprise. • Assist stock-based compensation team with technical research and/or documentation related to stock-based compensation events, plan modifications, or new facts. • Ownership of triggering events, impairment assessments and going concern tests across the enterprise. • As a key member of the Finance Leadership Team, drives and oversees the vision for an accounting center of expertise that effectively interprets and implements FASB and SEC pronouncements and provides guidance on business matters while being proactive in understanding and influencing proposed standards. • Lead the assessment of critical accounting issues relevant to the enterprise. • Oversee the enterprise accounting documentation process; ensure memorandums and contract reviews are supported by GAAP and the Company’s accounting policies. • Present to executive leadership and broad enterprise finance and accounting teams regularly on relevant accounting topics and positions. • Prepares and as requested presents materials to CEO, executive leadership teams and other key stakeholders. • With the Director, Operations Accounting, develops and executes a stakeholder management plan to ensure ongoing alignment across the key enterprise stakeholders. • Proactively build meaningful relationships with executive leadership, other TDS Corporate and business unit finance functions and leaders as the point person around the Company’s position on accounting issues and matters. • Maintain strong working relationships with other business/finance functions and leaders, especially consolidation and external reporting, treasury and tax functions to complete financial filings in a timely, accurate, and meaningful manner • Coordinate and work professionally with a variety of internal and external parties (such as participating in group conference calls with internal senior financial management, attorneys from our outside law firm, third party audit managers and partners, and technical accounting consultants) • Independently oversee and deliver technical accounting training on a variety of topics to various groups or individuals to enhance technical accounting competence across the enterprise. • Independently manage the organization and execution of the annual Finance Summit.