Senior Accounting Manager

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Senior Accounting Manager to support key accounting operations, including the monthly close, financial reporting, internal controls, audit support, M&A integration activities, and functional oversight of the Accounts Payable and Billing teams. This role will partner closely with the Controller, Director of Accounting, AP Manager, Billing Manager, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive financial accuracy, operational efficiency, process discipline, and a strong control environment. The ideal candidate is a strong technical accountant with demonstrated leadership capability, experience working in a fast-paced and asset-intensive environment, and the ability to balance hands-on accounting responsibilities with oversight of operational finance functions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Financial Close & Reporting

• Assist in overseeing the month-end close process, including coordination of AP, Billing, AR, accruals, subledger reconciliations, journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reporting deliverables.

• Review and analyze financial results, balance sheet accounts, AP/AR activity, direct expense accruals, and operational trends to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of issues.

• Partner with AP, Billing, Treasury, and Accounting team members to ensure recurring close activities, cash activity, customer billings, vendor payments, and subledger interfaces are appropriately recorded and reconciled.

• Support preparation of management reporting, variance analysis, weekly financial snapshots, cash flow reporting, and other analyses used by leadership to evaluate business performance.

• Record and reconcile monthly financial activity for foreign offices

• Prepare and review monthly cashflow activity

• Prepare quarterly financial statements for submission to Treasury

• Support any M&A initiatives with due diligence, purchase accounting and integration topics

• Support finance transformation initiatives, including close acceleration, reporting automation, workflow standardization, and improved use of data and business intelligence tools and any ERP implementations.

• Provide support and assistance to Director and Controller for ad-hoc projects

Functional Oversight – Accounts Payable & Billing

• Supervise the Accounts Payable and Billing functions through the AP Manager and Billing Manager, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-controlled execution of departmental responsibilities.

• Monitor AP and Billing workflows, deliverables, reconciliations, aging items, and issue resolution to ensure alignment with accounting close deadlines, company policies, and operational objectives.

• Drive process improvements across source-to-pay and order-to-cash activities, including standardization, automation, documentation, control enhancement, and improved visibility into key operational metrics.

• Support the development and monitoring of key performance indicators for AP and Billing, including timeliness, accuracy, aging, unresolved items, and process exceptions.

• Provide leadership, development and coaching and performance feedback of functional AP and Billing managers, while promoting accountability, collaboration, and high-quality execution.

• Foster a continuous improvement mindset across AP and Billing, encouraging proactive issue identification, ownership, and scalable solutions.

Audit & Compliance

• Support year-end and interim U.S. audits, foreign statutory audits, and other compliance requirements, including preparation and coordination of audit schedules, support, and responses to auditor inquiries.

• Assist with annual internal controls testing, including walkthrough support, control documentation, review of design and operating effectiveness, evidence gathering, and remediation follow-up.

• Partner with process owners across Accounting, AP, Billing, Treasury, Operations, and IT to maintain accurate process narratives, risk and control matrices, and supporting control evidence.

• Identify control gaps, process inefficiencies, and opportunities to strengthen the control environment while balancing operational efficiency and audit readiness.

• Support implementation of internal control enhancements resulting from audit findings, business changes, system implementations, acquisitions, or process redesign.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

• CPA required

• 12-15 years of progressive accounting experience and responsibilities

• Experience over AP/Billing preferred

• Audit experience preferably from an accounting firm

• Experience supporting U.S. and international audits

• Exposure to foreign statutory reporting and tax compliance preferred

Qualifications / Skills:

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and business intelligence tools (PowerBI, Qlik)

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP

• Familiar with General Ledger systems, FSM preferred

• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment

• Ability to understand and meet deadlines

Core Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

• Effective communicator with cross-functional and international stakeholders

• Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset

• Strong partnering and collaboration skills required