Director of Finance
About The Position
Piano overview Piano’s Digital Revenue Optimization solution helps digital services grow revenue by better understanding and influencing their customers’ behavior. Piano unifies analytics, segmentation, and commercial personalization in one AI-driven application, enabling sites and apps to efficiently maximize the value of every user visit. With offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, Piano serves a global client base including the BBC, Deutsche Telekom, Nikkei, AXA and the Wall Street Journal. For more information, visit piano.io . Overview The Director of Finance position is responsible for the accounting operations of Piano including the production of audited financial reports for all group entities, monthly internal financial reports, maintenance of an adequate system of accounting records, and a comprehensive set of controls and compliance designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of our reported financial results, and ensure that reported results comply with US GAAP and local country standards as applicable.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration, or equivalent business experience
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience.
- US-Gaap experience is a must
- Non-US Company experience (International)
- Group Financial Consolidation experience including Foreign Exchange
- Applicants for this position should have authorization to work in this jurisdiction without sponsorship from the Company.
Nice To Haves
- Preference will be given to candidates with PE or VC experience, CPA or CMA designations, experience with Saas companies and Sage X3 and/or Lucanet accounting software
Responsibilities
- Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures
- Manage third-party functions such as lenders, tax advisors, and auditors
- Oversee the accounting operations of all Piano entities. Legal Entity set-up, when applicable, and control
- Ensure that accounts payable are paid in a timely manner and that all reasonable discounts are taken.
- Ensure that accounts receivable are collected promptly.
- Ensure that periodic bank reconciliations and other Balance Sheet and P&L reconciliations are completed.
- Maintain the chart of accounts and an orderly accounting filing system.
- Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions.
- Issue timely monthly financial statements and reports to senior management, board of directors and shareholders
- Calculate and analyze variances and report significant issues to management
- Oversee process to record transactions by department and compare costs incurred to budget and performance analysis of profit centers
- Assist with cash projections to effectively manage cash balances
- Review monthly accounting close process including analytical review of the monthly operating results to ensure accurate accounting records are maintained
- Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics
- Provide for a system of management cost reports
- Coordinate the preparation of applicable tax returns
- Coordinate the provision of information to external auditors for all audits and manage audit processes
- Monitor debt levels and compliance with debt covenants
- Implement, document and maintain adequate and effective internal controls and processes to improve the close and reporting cycles to ensure timely and accurate reporting
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
