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Job Description

Uses specialized knowledge and skills obtained through education and experience to oversee and manage overall enterprise consolidation process and review of inter-company and inter-segment eliminations, corporate consolidations accounting, consolidated general ledger and ownership of the consolidated trial balance. Resolves and recommends solutions to complex problems. Regular contact with financial reporting executives and teams is required to identify, research, and resolve accounting issues and problems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze consolidated financial statements to ensure transactions comply with U.S. GAAP
• Responsible for the internal financial management reporting and disclosure reports distributed to leadership on a monthly basis.
• Strengthen internal controls, documentation, and enhance processes around the period-end timelines and related reporting processes.
• Review journal entries and complex general ledger account reconciliations, including researching U.S. GAAP issues and resolving accounting discrepancies.
• Support the internal/external team on reporting financial statement impacts. Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure all parties are appropriately informed, engaged and driving desired results.
• Prepare and distribute financial information and data within required deadlines and ensure that the information supplied is concise, relevant, and understandable to assist leadership with business and program decisions.
• Serve as the key contact with the external auditors for quarterly review and year-end audits, including discussing and answering technical questions around the parent company accounting process and its impact on the U.S. GAAP reporting.
• Directs training of associates, evaluates and develops associates, including hiring and disciplinary action.
• Directs area workflow by assigning and monitoring work, implementing productivity standards, delegating tasks, enforcing policies, procedures, and controls.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with other functional areas, including other business unit and IT areas, to resolve complex issues and support achievement of business goals
• Ensures that adequate internal controls and procedures are followed.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge of

• Advanced accounting concepts, practices and procedures.
• Generally accepted accounting concepts, practices and procedures.
• General ledger and consolidation systems and financial statements.

Skills in

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software application to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements.
• Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.
• Preparing financial statements, budgets, and management reports.
• Researching US GAAP issues
• Analyzing financial information.
• Performing mathematical calculations.

Ability to

• Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management.
• Provide training to others.
• Organize, manage, and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
• Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and communicates effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.
• Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.
• Work independently to resolve complex accounting problems.
• Contribute to team efforts by ensuring all relevant information is included in the outcomes.

Education/Previous Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field and six (6) years of professional experience in accounting with two (2) years’ experience in a management role.
• OR ~
• An equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/Certifications

• SIE required provided that an exemption or grandfathering cannot be applied.
• Series 99, or ability to obtain within 120 days (as required by FINRA), may be required depending on assigned functional area