Manager of Corporate Accounting

What makes this a great opportunity?

This position is responsible for all global cash flow related deliverables, including budgeting, forecasting and reporting actual results in both statutory and management views. The individual in this role will manage technical accounting tasks, relationship with local auditors, and external/internal reporting, review of journal entries, account reconciliations, financial statement analysis and ensuring appropriate accounting of various corporate matters.

The Manager of Corporate Accounting will manage a team of two and oversee staff’s development, review workpapers, provide guidance, coaching and issue resolution.

Role Responsibilities

Cash flow budgeting and forecasting

• Responsible for delivery of consolidated mid-term plan, monthly budget, latest estimates (LE) and S&OP.
• Facilitate regional deliverables, including coordination with various corporate and regional teams, as well as review input templates utilized in gathering budget and forecast deliverables.
• Obtain regional assumptions of DSOs, DPOs and other inputs impacting cash flow outcome.
• Lead regional discussions with various controllership teams to understand cash flow forecast and budget methodology; maintains version control to explain change in budget for every iteration.

Cash flow results

• Report actuals in management view (both regional and consolidated) on a monthly basis, including support in staff’s presentation on explanations obtained from Regional Controllers to highlight actual vs. budget variance.
• Responsible for completion of prior year comparable, including explanation of impact due to change in management foreign exchange rates and removal of non-recurring transactions.
• Report actuals in statutory view on a semi-annual basis, including explanation and commentary on current period vs. prior period changes.
• Review all rollforwards in support of cash flow preparation to ensure completeness and accuracy.

Cash flow presentation and reporting

• Manage deliverables to parent company and ELT, such as Hyperion submission, board deck with explanations for balance sheet and cash flow flux on actual vs. budget performance.
• Drive process change to improve cash flow accuracy and efficiency.
• Serve as main point of contact for inquiries on cash flow from various stakeholders such as FP&A, parent company, and auditors, internal and external.
• Research and lead technical discussions around cash flow treatments of complex transactions.
• Manage workbooks of regional cash flow publication.

Long Description

Corporate Accounting and Ledger Ownership

• Manager certain monthly close and corporate accounting tasks such as lease accounting and derivatives accounting.

Consolidation Support

• Prepare monthly and semi-annual schedules and reports to parent company.
• Support regional accounting teams in analysis and resolution of accounting issues related to monthly reporting process.
• Assist with audits of financial statements and semi-annual reporting package.

Other

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Regional Controllers and Global Business Services teams to ensure accurate and unified presentation of consolidated financial statements.
• Oversee staff preparation of monthly and quarterly financial workpapers. Provide guidance and issue resolution in monthly financial reporting.
• Support other ad hoc reporting requests such as preparation of financial statements for required government reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• CPA designation preferred
• Five plus years of working experience with public accounting and/or companies of similar size
• Experience in a leadership role with demonstrated success in growing the accounting/ finance team in a rapid growth, fast-paced environment
• Ability to work effectively with internal staff members, senior leadership, external partners, directors, tax and legal advisors
• Working knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards
• Knowledge of SAP and EPM reporting systems is a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley, including identifying and documenting key controls and processes, assisting with remediation activities, and supporting related internal controls testing

Salary Range - The salary range for this role, based in Chicago, Illinois  is $110k-120k, along with an annual bonus, 401K match, profit sharing, and medical and wellness benefits. The salary range is commensurate with the candidate’s location, experience, and skillset. The range will vary if outside of this location.