What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Senior Manager position at AquantUs, LLC?
Summary
Senior Manager Corporate Accounting with a manufacturing company.
The Senior Manager Corporate Accounting serves as a Global Record-to-Report leader directing monthly financial close and reporting activities of assigned domestic and international entities, general ledger record-to-report process excellence, accounting and reporting for corporate functions, and analysis of corporate and business results.
Responsibilities
Senior Manager Corporate Accounting with a manufacturing company.
The Senior Manager Corporate Accounting serves as a Global Record-to-Report leader directing monthly financial close and reporting activities of assigned domestic and international entities, general ledger record-to-report process excellence, accounting and reporting for corporate functions, and analysis of corporate and business results.
Responsibilities
- Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP and internal policies for corporate and assigned domestic and international entities including sub consolidations.
- Oversee the preparation and review of financial statements, analytics, and support for the cashflow statement, ensuring alignment with corporate and external reporting standards.
- Perform and oversee the accounting for assigned corporate functional areas including payroll and benefits inclusive of bonus accrual, treasury, information systems, and allocation of corporate functional costs.
- Provide guidance on record to report processes globally and serve as center of excellence, which includes:
- Implement best practices in accounting processes, analytics, and performance metrics (e.g., KPIs) to drive value and enhance efficiency, accuracy, and accountability.
- Define, document and maintain global record to report process standards, policies, and procedures.
- Drive the implementation of strategies to harmonize globally.
- Lead and participate in accounting and reporting continuous improvement and transformation projects to optimize accounting and reporting processes and systems including leveraging OneStream consolidation platform and timeliness of month end close process.
- Lead the continued optimization and implementation of Blackline platform across the company globally including:
- Drive efficiency and timeliness of Blackline account reconciliations and tasks and related KPIs
- Keep up to date on new and emerging tools within Blackline for potential use across the company
- Provide training and support to business units globally
- Ensure strong internal controls and compliance is in place for financial review, including:
- High quality review processes for journal entry processing, analytics, financial reporting, SOX controls, and other analyses required to support assigned financial statements and related business processes.
- Ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled to adequate supporting detailed records with consideration of the validity of the support, the aging of activity reflecting in the account, and timely resolution of reconciling items.
- Serve as a business partner to Treasury, Tax, Corporate Development, Corporate Reporting, FP&A and Business Operations to collaborate on strategic initiatives including integration, corporate and business-related projects, and analysis.
- Support the budgeting and forecasting processes; ensure that department costs are controlled with the objective of optimizing and minimizing costs while providing scalable quality services to our customers.
- Develop, coach and mentor team to build their professional growth and maximize potential.
- Provide support for external and internal auditor reviews and audits.
- Ensure critical documents are maintained appropriately to support financial reporting, tax audit and other needs.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Public company corporate environment and/or large national or regional public accounting background
- Experience as a people manager
- Work experience with manufacturing companies, consolidations, and intercompany transactions/eliminations preferred.
- Certified Public Accountant strongly preferred
- Experience with implementation and/or usage of Oracle
- Experience with Blackline preferred
- Strong accounting background and knowledge of US GAAP and financial statement reporting
- Experience with leading projects focused on process improvement
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage a team to meet deadlines with the production of high quality, accurate work product
- Experience managing and growing teams in a matrixed teamwork environment and working effectively across all levels of the organization, both domestic and international
- Strong knowledge of internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
- Experience with large ERP systems, consolidation systems, and other financial software