Manager of Accounting

This is a Full Time Job

Reporting to the Controller, this position requires an individual with strong analytical skills, exceptional Excel capabilities. The candidate needs to have experience supervising General Ledger activities. Experience with ERP/financial systems and business process and internal controls design is required. Financial systems implementation experience a major plus.

Primary responsibilities for the role of Accounting Manager include but are not limited to the following tasks:

• Help manage the Month-end close activities including but not limited to posting Journal entries, preparing account reconciliations and preparing and analyzing data reports.
• Prepare, review and analyze financial statements for individual company and consolidated companies Balance sheet, Income statement, Cash flow, and Lead schedules.
• Review and prepare asset & liability account reconciliations implement follow up action plans for resolution to common recurring issues.
• Review, prepare and analyze accounting transactions, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and provide variance explanations
• Analyze and report activity at the project level and communicate with project leaders on status.
• Be a Key Leader in helping complete annual audit/working with external auditors
• Demonstrate project management skills to provide project planning and project status reporting
• Ability to perform data conversion, data cleansing, and data validation processes as part of the implementation team is required.
• Senior-level understanding of U.S. GAAP principles and overall strong technical accounting skills required to financial reporting and month end closing and consolidations.
• Responsible for providing analyses to internal customers in the Accounting department as well as to external customers within the organization
• Review and prepare Intercompany reconciliations - prepare and analyze intercompany transactions and implement follow up action plans for resolution to common recurring issues
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Special projects of a financial nature upon request
• Administer the company's expense reimbursement platform including configuration and integration with general ledger.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Finance and/or Accounting is required.
• CPA desired.
• 5 years of experience in Accounting with sound knowledge of GAAP. This includes the ability to research the practicable accounting treatment for complex transactions.
• 5+ years of experience.
• Position requires in depth knowledge of GL, FA, AP, T&E workflows and financial reporting processes.
• Experience with accounting internal controls required including documentation and walkthroughs
• Able to perform in a fast-paced environment which requires multi-tasking and excellent communication skills.
• Expert computer skills including Microsoft Suite with emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience working with multiple reporting units and lines of business.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal skills required.
• Must possess a personal sense of urgency and superior teamwork skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Microsoft Access
• Public Company work experience
• Working with international business units or other international work experience.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree from a leading university is required in Business, Accounting or related field