Accounting Manager, Integration & Accounting Transformation
About The Position
Colliers Engineering & Design is seeking an Accounting Manager, Integration & Accounting Transformation to lead accounting and finance integration work for acquired businesses while contributing to corporate accounting and broader finance transformation. The role combines technical accounting judgment, project leadership, and business systems fluency. It partners with acquired-company leaders and teams across Corporate Accounting, Finance, Operations, Information Technology, Human Resources, Treasury, Tax, and other functions to align accounting policies, processes, systems, controls, and reporting. The manager will lead integration work from diligence through stabilization, translating accounting and operational needs into practical plans and overseeing data and process transitions. Between integration phases, the role contributes to close and reporting improvements, internal controls, and continuous-improvement initiatives. The work mix will evolve with the acquisition pipeline. This position has a hybrid work arrangement and requires working in the Denver, Colorado office at least three days per week. Travel may be required for acquisition integrations and business needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Seven or more years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful ownership of financial close, reconciliations, reporting, and internal controls.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ability to research, assess, and communicate accounting conclusions.
- Experience leading an accounting integration, ERP implementation, financial-system migration, business transformation, or similarly complex cross-functional initiative.
- Experience in professional services, engineering, consulting, construction, government contracting, or another project-based environment.
- Experience with BST, Deltek Vision, Deltek Vantagepoint, Costpoint, or a comparable project-based ERP.
- Ability to build productive working relationships and take a constructive, solutions-oriented approach to integration and accounting challenges.
- Strong Excel skills and demonstrated ability to learn and use ERP, AI, reporting, workflow, and data tools.
- Ability to organize complex work, manage dependencies and risk, influence across functions, and deliver against critical deadlines.
- Clear communication and facilitation skills, sound judgment, curiosity, adaptability, and a collaborative approach.
- Ability to travel as needed for acquisition integrations and business requirements.
- Ability to read, write, and understand English to comprehend written job-related communications and verbal instructions and interactions.
Nice To Haves
- People leadership, coaching, or change-management experience.
- CPA or other relevant professional certification.
- Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) or Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) experience.
- Experience with Power Query, Power BI, workflow automation, data-conversion tools, or other finance technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead accounting integration workstreams for acquisitions, from diligence support and discovery through planning, execution, cutover, and post-close stabilization.
- Manage detailed integration plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issue logs, decisions, and leadership updates across concurrent projects.
- Conduct accounting and process walkthroughs covering acquired businesses’ financial operations, systems, controls, reporting, and resource needs.
- Lead or coordinate transitions for general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, payroll accounting, revenue recognition, project accounting, and financial reporting.
- Oversee chart-of-accounts mapping, historical data conversion, opening balance sheet preparation, account reconciliations, and validation of migrated financial information.
- Apply U.S. GAAP and close-process knowledge to resolve accounting issues, strengthen reconciliations, and support accurate and timely reporting.
- Partner with Corporate Accounting on close, reporting, policy, control, and process-improvement initiatives, particularly between active integration phases.
- Help integrate acquired entities into ERP, expense, banking, billing, reporting, and related financial systems; translate accounting requirements for technical and implementation teams.
- Coordinate cutover readiness, including master data, user access, vendor and customer setup, banking and remittance changes, reporting, training, and support plans.
- Build relationships with acquired-company teams, facilitate cross-functional decisions, and communicate through periods of change.
- Develop and improve scalable playbooks, templates, checklists, standard operating procedures, controls, and handoff practices.
- Coach accounting team members and acquired-company personnel, share knowledge, and support adoption of new processes and systems.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical coverage
- Company-paid dental coverage
- Company-paid vision coverage
- Paid pregnancy disability leave
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Company-matched 401(k)/Roth
- Paid time off, including parental and military leave
- Employee referral and professional license bonuses
- Straight-time policy compensating exempt employees for billable hours worked in excess of 40 billable hours within a work week
- Education reimbursement
- In-house educational and self-enrichment courses
- Mentorship program
- Wellness program
- Women’s Organization
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Safe and comfortable work environment
- Career advancement opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
