Manager, Accounting

Description : Job Summary :

This managing level employee is primarily responsible for overseeing financial transactions, analyses, and audits, serving as a main point of contact for outside contacts and agencies, and communicating results to senior management while ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities :

• Pursues professional growth and provides developmental opportunities for others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback;
• building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; training and developing talent for growth opportunities; delegating tasks and decisions;

fostering open dialogue amongst team members; executing performance management guidelines and expectations; and working closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.

• Manages designated work unit by translating business plans into tactical action items; ensuring all policies and procedures are followed;
• delegating tasks to meet goals and objectives; overseeing the completion of work assignments; aligning team efforts; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results;

identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; removing obstacles that impact performance; and guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly.

• Supports financial transactions by preparing complex accounting activities and reconciliations leading to a complete set of accurate financial statements (e.
• g. journal entries, estimates, disbursements) in accordance with GAAP and company policies; reviewing and approving complex accounting activities prepared by others;

and making recommendations.

• Conducts external reporting of Company financial information by completing, reviewing, and interpreting reports and analyses for statutory reporting to external agencies (e.
• g. IRS, Census Bureau, NAIC, FTC); identifying needs for new design for reports; maintaining relationships and working with external parties to resolve issues;

and ensuring reporting requirements are met.

Supports financial analyses by reviewing operational statistics to explain financial results, inform decision-making and take action to pursue efficiencies and quality financial outcomes;

ensuring ad hoc request for analysis are completed; establishing data gathering methods; and providing expertise in data origination.

Communicates financial results by developing and presenting conclusions about areas of accountability to appropriate levels of management in verbal and written form;

documenting positions and processes in support of process improvement, knowledge retention, and audit requirements; and provides consulting services to individuals without finance training.

Participates in finance system design, implementations, enhancements, and continuous improvements by reviewing flow of transactions through source systems;

validating ongoing configuration decisions; reviewing systems in area of expertise to ensure that new systems, upgrades, and other system maintenance activities do not impact operations, financial statements, or leadership decision making.

• Monitors Company financial information by completing, reviewing, and interpreting standard and / or ad hoc reports (e.g.
• balance sheets, income statements, volume reporting, trade spending reports); evaluating validity of assets, liabilities, revenues, and operating expenses in conformity with GAAP and Company accounting policies;

making recommendations; and communicating financial reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.

• Meets requirements of policies and procedures to remain compliant (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, KP-NCO, POR) and ensures staff is compliant.
• Supports internal and external audits by communicating with auditors; being the point of contact for auditors; ensuring appropriate documents are completed;

and escalating issues as appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Business, or related field AND Minimum six (6) years accounting or related business experience.

Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements :

Preferred Qualifications :

• Two (2) years supervisory experience
• Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
30+ days ago