Director of Accounting, Controller

Alaska Communications Systems Group • Anchorage, AK

153d

About The Position

Director of Accounting, Controller is a key leadership position within the Company and the Accounting Organization. This position is responsible for assisting the VP, Finance and Accounting in the coordination and production of timely and accurate financial information and reports for each of the organization's subsidiaries and submitting them to our parent corporation. This includes overseeing the month-end close process, reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations, maintenance of the general ledger and compliance with both regulatory requirements and the Company's internal control procedures. This position works extensively with other departments ensuring projects and transactions are appropriately recorded and is recognized as an authority in both Company policy, regulatory, and accounting rules. This position coordinates our tax functions between both internal and external resources and is the point of contact for our external auditors for quarterly reviews, annual audits, and ad hoc engagements. This position is also responsible for hiring, training and coaching staff for the various accounting units.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field required.
• Ten (10) years professional accounting experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Supervisory and/or staff management experience required.
• Exposure to both operational and corporate financial settings in a public company.
• Expertise in accounting including GAAP and SEC reporting.
• Prefer CPA License and Graduate degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related field.
• Experience with Workday Financials or other complex ERP system.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that capabilities, methods and procedures are in place to successfully meet all external reporting requirements.
• Oversight of all accounting functions, including oversight of compliance programs related to financial reporting.
• Lead and develop the Finance teams, including providing work assignments and direction/assistance, mentoring/coaching, skills & competencies development, recruiting, performance management.
• Establish strong relationships with business managers based on providing expert decision support, anticipating key issues and informational needs.
• Collaborate with colleagues across various functional areas of business opportunity and engage in productive problem solving.
• Ensure the review of monthly journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Coordinate and lead the Company's month end close process, including designing processes and procedures to efficiently close on time.
• Oversee the production of financial statements and their timely submission to our parent corporation.
• Ensure the performance of all key and non-key internal controls over financial reporting by the Accounting team.
• Support ad hoc requests for accounting information and analyses.
• Utilize financial systems to their maximum potential and make reporting effective, efficient, timely, accurate and insightful.
• Coordinate with our external auditors, lead the quarterly reviews, annual financial statement audits, and ad hoc engagements.
• Maintain an effective tax function with a combination of both internal and external resources.
• Lead in-depth financial, variance, and trending analysis for key profitability drivers and metrics.
• Lead the implementation of new accounting pronouncements.
• Coordinate the cross training of Accounting Managers and Supervisors.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of GAAP, SOX 404, and regulatory requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees