Director, Accounting

About This Role

This leadership role directs the end-to-end accounting and reporting activities for multiple complex legal entities, ensuring accurate and timely financial information for reporting purposes. It involves providing technical review, conducting in-depth research and analysis, and advising senior management and business leaders on financial performance and critical accounting issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end accounting and reporting activities of multiple large, high-visibility/risk, and/or complex legal entities
• Conduct technical review and sign-off before transforming data into information for reporting purposes
• Direct the completion of numerous activities from start to close, including consolidations and financial reporting of business outcomes
• Deliver usable, accurate, and timely financial information and recommendations for the desired period (monthly, quarterly, or annually)
• Perform the most complex research and analyses to provide senior management with analytical/technical support and advice related to financial performance and critical financial accounting issues
• Serve as a key advisor to functional and/or business leaders
• Deliver presentations, information, and/or recommendations to senior management, regulators, and the internal board of directors
• Provide leadership, direction, and functional guidance to more junior analysts to ensure the delivery of performance metrics
• Complete advanced accounting activities, including highly complex general ledger events and transactions
• Continuously improve exceptions identification and analysis activities
• Face off with internal/external auditors and SOX
• Maintain the control environment
• Fulfill ad hoc requests in accordance with global, regional, and country-specific process standards
• Identify opportunities for process improvements
• Use professional judgment and considerable experience to deliver recommendations for use in accounting and financial reporting to senior management and the internal board of directors
• Work closely with regional or global leaders to review and vet any new proposed process enhancement documentation and training content
• Provide statutory and regulatory guidance and support as requested for special projects and continuous improvement work efforts
• Serve as a key advisor to functional and/or business leaders with in-depth expertise in the accounting functions of a business, legal entity, or geography
• Design and lead the implementation of new or revised reporting, accounting, and accounting process policies, procedures, and reports which provide effective financial planning, accounting, and reporting of financial information
• Authorize the recording of accounting entries to financial systems