Senior Accountant
January 22, 2025Seasonal Tax Preparer (Full-time employee)
January 23, 2025#9999 Job Description
Senior Manager/Manager – Corporate Accounting
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager/Manager of Corporate Accounting to join the team. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day accounting, financial reporting, and compliance activities for the organization and other entities within our enterprise. This position requires strong leadership, technical accounting expertise, and the ability to manage complex financial processes involving multiple legal entities, intercompany transactions, consolidations, non-working capital accounts, month-end and year-end closing, non-routine transactions, and audit.
In this role, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of our financial reporting and closing activities. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Operational Accounting, Accounts Payable, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Shared Services, UK finance, etc.) to help streamline processes, analyze financial data, and provide insights that ultimately lead to strategic decision-making. This is a highly impactful role, as you will be overseeing the closing and reporting process across our broader enterprise, which consists of over 70+ entities. This role requires advanced expertise in relevant platforms, such as D365, Blackline, Medius Buy, and Concur. In this role, collaboration with various divisions is key – and will include Technology, HR, Operations, Procurement, and other areas of Management.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the month-end and year-end closing and consolidation process, ensuring all financial activities are accurately recorded, consolidated (where applicable) and reported. Ensure all closing processes are consistently completed on time while placing an emphasis on maintaining and developing world class internal controls.
- Oversee the preparation of accurate and timely financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Ensure proper adherence to accounting standards (AICPA, GAAP, IFRS).
- Review and reconcile accounts, including accruals, prepayments, and transactions across all our entities as well as ensuring intercompany transactions are properly recorded timely and / or eliminated in consolidation.
- Analyze financial data to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement; close the books with substance, including flux analysis that helps drive a deep understanding of the results each period.
- Provide actionable insights to management regarding variances in budgets, forecasts, and actual results.
- Continuously assess and improve financial reporting and closing processes to enhance controls, efficiency, accuracy, and transparency.
- Implement best practices and automation solutions to streamline workflows. Be empowered to continuously improve areas by inventing or reinventing new processes.
- Supervise and mentor a team of Accounting professionals, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning.
- Partner with Tax to ensure we have proper financial statement integrity as it relates to tax compliance with federal and state tax filings in the United States as well as International tax compliance (e.g., tax returns, VAT). Assist with book / tax provision models where necessary.
- Partner with Treasury regarding daily cash management requirements and banking relationships, foreign exchange management, and intercompany debt compliance requirements.
- Manage and provide guidance on non-routine financial transactions, including divestitures, carve outs, mergers and acquisitions and other special projects.
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors to facilitate timely and smooth audits, free of material errors and significant deficiencies. Report and address audit findings as needed.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field (Master's degree or CPA designation is a plus).
- At least 8 years of experience in an Accounting leadership role, with an emphasis on closing and reporting, in highly complex environments and managing and developing highly functional teams.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, regulations, and compliance standards.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Critical thinking skills are critical to this role.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal abilities.
- Proven track record of providing mentorship and guidance to high-performing teams.
- ERP and financial systems experience is required; experience with D365, Medius, Concur, Blackline, Adaptive would be a plus.