Manager, Accounting

This position provides direction, training, and evaluation to a staff of accountants and technicians. This role is responsible for the review and analysis of group’s performance from an efficiency and productivity standpoint with a detailed knowledge of work processes and internal controls. This role assists management in understanding and communicating accounting issues and challenges/changes to the group. • Interface with other groups inside and outside the organization, including internal and external auditors • Manage projects as requested by senior management to define, organize, create an organized plan as well as track, manage, and communicate status • Review and analyze financial performance of the assigned organization and assist management in understanding and communicating financial issues • Supervise the financial statement closing process on a monthly and quarterly basis for the assigned organization • Approve journal entries and other manual adjustments that impact the financial statements • Prepare/review/approve account reconciliations and prepare variance explanations • Other duties as assigned• Accredited four (4) year degree or global equivalent in applicable field of study and eight (8) years of work-related experience or a combination of education and directly related experience equal to twelve (12) years if non-degreed; some locations may have additional or different qualifications in order to comply with local requirements • Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to management, coworkers, clients, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders • Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job • Ability to learn and apply knowledge of applicable local, state/province, and federal/national statutes and guidelines • Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner• Eight (8) years of related public or industry experience • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills • Excellent leadership and decision-making skills • Strong discretion and independent judgment is required • Ability to work under pressure • Excellent knowledge of procedures, policies, and best practices as related to the department • Demonstrated proficiency in the use of PC-based business applications, with a strong emphasis in Excel • Demonstrated proficiency in the use of global enterprise resource planning (ERP) accounting applications such as SAP • Able to operate to strict deadlines