Senior Accounting Manager

Senior Manager, Accounting( Consolidations)

Location: Burlington, Massachusetts, United States (On-site)

Industry: Food and Beverage Services

Work Setting: On-site

Are you passionate about leading global financial consolidations, optimizing close processes, and driving accounting excellence in a complex multinational environment?

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Consolidations & Intercompany Accounting to play a critical leadership role within the corporate controllership organization. This position is responsible for overseeing the global consolidation process, intercompany accounting operations, financial reporting support, system governance, and process transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate is a hands-on accounting leader with deep expertise in consolidations, financial close management, internal controls, and financial systems, combined with the ability to lead teams and influence stakeholders across a global organization.

Key Responsibilities

Global Consolidations & Financial Close Management

• Lead the end-to-end financial consolidation process for monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cycles.
• Coordinate close activities, reporting deadlines, submission requirements, and issue resolution across global finance teams.
• Review consolidated financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and equity reporting to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Oversee consolidation adjustments, top-side entries, post-close activities, and supporting documentation.
• Manage consolidated cash flow reporting, equity roll-forwards, ownership structures, and related financial analyses.
• Ensure effective governance over close procedures, data submissions, reporting integrity, and escalation processes.

Intercompany Accounting & Eliminations

• Oversee global intercompany accounting processes, including transaction recording, reconciliations, settlements, dispute resolution, and eliminations.
• Ensure reciprocal balances such as receivables, payables, revenue, expenses, investments, loans, and other intercompany transactions are accurately recorded and eliminated.
• Drive resolution of intercompany differences, foreign currency impacts, timing variances, and reconciliation issues.
• Partner with tax, treasury, legal, and finance teams to support transfer pricing, funding activities, legal entity requirements, and settlement processes.
• Lead initiatives to standardize, streamline, and automate intercompany accounting workflows.

Financial Reporting & Business Support

• Partner with finance and reporting teams to support external reporting, management reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Prepare and review consolidated schedules, reporting packages, and supporting analyses for leadership, auditors, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Support the identification, reconciliation, and documentation of unusual financial items and reporting adjustments.
• Develop clear financial insights and recommendations for senior finance and accounting leadership.
• Provide ad hoc reporting and analysis to support strategic business initiatives.

Financial Systems & Reporting Governance

• Serve as a key process owner for consolidation platforms, close management systems, reconciliation tools, and reporting applications.
• Oversee system governance, data integrity, reporting hierarchies, consolidation rules, and financial mappings.
• Manage system-related activities associated with organizational restructures, legal entity changes, acquisitions, and integrations.
• Partner with finance transformation and IT teams on system implementations, enhancements, testing, automation, and process improvements.
• Deliver training and guidance to finance teams on reporting, consolidation, close, and reconciliation procedures.

Governance, Controls & Audit Support

• Lead and continuously improve internal controls related to consolidations, intercompany accounting, financial reporting, reconciliations, and close processes.
• Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, corporate accounting policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation supporting key accounting judgments, reconciliations, eliminations, and system changes.
• Act as a primary liaison for internal and external auditors regarding consolidation and reporting activities.
• Support ongoing compliance initiatives and strengthen financial governance across the organization.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and enhance consolidation and intercompany accounting processes.
• Perform root-cause analysis on recurring close challenges, data quality issues, reconciliation differences, and control gaps.
• Support finance transformation initiatives, acquisitions, integrations, organizational restructuring, and system modernization projects.
• Establish meaningful performance metrics and reporting dashboards to drive continuous improvement and accountability.
• Balance operational execution with long-term process optimization and strategic transformation efforts.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership

• Build strong partnerships with accounting, finance, tax, treasury, legal, audit, operations, and technology teams globally.
• Communicate financial reporting impacts, key accounting judgments, project updates, and emerging risks to senior leadership.
• Influence cross-functional teams through strong governance, collaboration, and stakeholder management.
• Lead, coach, and develop accounting professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Support succession planning, capability development, and organizational growth within the finance function.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Active CPA certification.
• 8 years of progressive accounting, controllership, or financial reporting experience.
• Strong expertise in financial consolidations, intercompany accounting, month-end close, reconciliations, internal controls, and financial systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of U.S. GAAP, foreign currency accounting, consolidated financial statements, cash flow reporting, and equity accounting.
• Experience leading accounting teams and influencing stakeholders across global organizations.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multinational, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred

• Public accounting experience with a nationally recognized accounting firm.
• Experience within large multinational or publicly traded organizations.
• Knowledge of ERP and financial consolidation platforms.
• Experience with account reconciliation and close management tools.
• Exposure to external reporting, shared services environments, finance transformation, and enterprise system implementations.
• Working knowledge of international accounting and reporting standards.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, carve-outs, restructurings, or other significant business transformations.