Director, Global Accounting & Consolidation

Maxcess•Eureka, MO

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Global Accounting & Consolidation is a blend of various operational, financial, regulatory, legal, technical, compliance, and GAAP reporting coupled with financial analysis, establishing, and monitoring internal controls with minimal amount of financial transaction and general ledger responsibility. The position operates at two key organization levels – a consolidated global headquarters entity and three regional (geographic) operating entities from around the world (AMER, EMEA and APAC).

Requirements

Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future.
Must reside in the United States.
Public accounting background/experience from a medium to large-sized firm required.
Global accounting/Consolidations experience required.
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, CPA or CA with at least 10-plus years of experience required, MBA preferred.
High skill level of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) required.
SOX knowledge and ability to write, implement, and maintain internal control procedures required.
Significant financial reporting experience (e.g., regulatory reporting, creating/reporting on key operational performance metrics, preparing GAAP financial statements, etc.) required.
Ability to easily adapt to and learn financial systems (strong user) required.
Initiative-taking team player and highly motivated self-starter who is accustomed to working in complex organizations, partnering with international and diverse groups of stakeholders, and achieving results within a matrix organization required.
Ability to lead and drive positive organizational and culture change required.
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
Desire to learn the consolidated business as well as the various global operational entities that roll-up within the consolidation.
Powerful drive to leverage technology to make continuous process improvements, upgrades, and changes with the goal of fully automated reporting to enable better analysis.
Ability to create/design templates to organize and standardize financial data with the purpose of creating harmonized reporting.
Ability to work within a small team, matrix teams, international teams, and lead small and large-scale project teams.
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
Change agent and leader of change.
Desire to continuously grow their role/responsibilities.
Highly ethical and can easily deal with sensitive and confidential information daily.

Nice To Haves

Manufacturing & Distribution Industry experience strongly preferred.
Experience with enterprise financial systems required; OneStream strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Reviews management reporting and analytics, and provides meaningful insight into the underlying drivers impacting results.
Reviews all GAAP financial reporting efforts, including implementation of new accounting standards
Leads Company Consolidation reporting and analysis efforts.
Provides leadership and development to 1-2 professionals.
Build relationships and partner closely with all region finance and teams and global leadership team (e.g., CEO, VP’s, global IT, headquarters staff, etc.).
Partners closely with parent company department heads (e.g., finance, tax, treasury, M&A, risk management, etc.), and external vendors
Prepares the audited (EY) financial statements and the monthly and quarterly financial reports and associated commentary.
Creates and maintains various financial analysis and internal/external bench-marking reports to drive profitability through incremental revenue and/or reduction in expenses.
Manages and reports on various bonus and incentive programs for all headquarter and global operating entities.
Leads large-scale process and/or change management goals (bonus plans, financial technology implementations, global revenue, margin, and operating expense improvements, etc.)
Makes accounting and financial technology vendor recommendations.
Handles complex and confidential employee compensation accounting matters.
Makes recommendations on managing cash globally, deals with multiple foreign currencies and offers programs to mitigate foreign exchange impact.
Utilizes technology to continually drive updates and automation to reporting templates.
Creates, monitors, and manages various internal control efforts (bank accounts, legal entity structures, financial and reporting guidelines, chart of account usage, approval matrices, etc.).
Creates various internal control guidelines for global implementation and then monitors these guidelines for compliance.
Leads all accounting and analysis efforts for divestiture, merger, and acquisition activities.