Director of Accounting - Rock Dental Brands

Rock Dental Brands•Little Rock, AR

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About The Position

The Director of Accounting will support the ongoing development, implementation, automation and management of sound financial reporting, policies, and procedures related to accounting. This role will oversee the work of the accounting team and will report to the VP Controller.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree in Accounting from an accredited college or university required
Ten or more years of related experience, including 3+ years in management
Strong technical accounting knowledge
Strong oral and written communication skills
Interpersonal Skills: Confident with executive presence and the ability to work effectively and transparently with both the CFO and other members of the senior leadership team, without being too deferential.
Character: High degree of maturity, integrity, and personal self-confidence tempered by self-awareness and self-reflection. Must be comfortable openly admitting shortcomings.
Leadership Capability: Ability to build and motivate a team to improve the team’s performance and contributions to the organization.
Communication Skills: Skill in building consensus for new ideas and initiatives and in communicating effectively with personnel and groups at all organization levels. Genuineness is required to build that consensus.
Hands-On: Must be willing and have the ability to participate in an early stage growth environment where it is required to “roll sleeves up” to tackle certain issues where bandwidth and/or skills of the team needs hands-on support of leaders.
Emotional Strength: Must have the ability to hear and support other leaders’ ideas and initiatives regardless of involvement without feeling others ideas aren't valid, or feeling left out.

Nice To Haves

CPA, preferred

Responsibilities

Responsible for the overall performance, training and development of the accounting team
Lead cross functional collaboration with different operational groups to provide strategic, financial and accounting related guidance, to help overall outcome for business operations
Lead ASC 606 revenue recognition work for monthly close
Safeguard assets and ensure accurate and timely recording of all transactions by developing and ensuring compliance with all internal control processes
Develop, improve and issue timely and accurate monthly financial statements to include managing the close process, account reconciliations and GL analysis
Develop and ensure compliance with all internal control processes
Lead and manage the audit with our outside audit firm
Implement new processes to streamline and improve business flows
Research and implement new technical accounting pronouncements
Partner with FP&A and Transformation teams on forecasting and budgeting processes