General Accounting Manager

Neighborly•Irving, TX

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Neighborly, a hub of service brands with over 40 years of experience, is seeking a General Accounting Manager to join their Accounting team. This role is focused on strategic innovation and building the future of home and business services. The General Accounting Manager will be responsible for maintaining and demonstrating a thorough understanding of general accounting systems, procedures, and GAAP, ensuring accurate and timely financial closes, managing closing activities, reviewing and approving P&Ls, and collaborating with various departments. The role also involves monitoring and analyzing the work of direct reports to implement more efficient procedures and technology utilization.

Requirements

Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in corporate accounting and/or auditing/assurance is required
Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role is required
Bachelor’s degree in accounting is required
Large, automated, integrated accounting system proficiency.
Ability to effectively lead, train, assess, coach, and motivate staff
Ability to effectively communicate with staff and follow up to ensure the department and company goals/assignments are completed accurately and timely
Strong proficiency in Excel and Word
Strong business partner with the ability to provide insightful analysis and presentations
Proven leadership and collaborative cross-functional teamwork skills
Continuous improvement mindset: willingness to continue to learn, apply learnings and ability to operationalize improvements through others
Thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, deadline-driven, dynamic business environment

Nice To Haves

An active CPA license is preferred
Public company/SOX experience strongly is preferred
MS Dynamics 365 is preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintaining and demonstrating a thorough understanding of general accounting systems, procedures, and GAAP
Ensuring an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close for assigned brands/entities
Ensuring related balance sheet accounts are accurately reconciled and are fully supported
Managing the monthly closing activities for assigned brands, entities, and line items, in compliance with the closing checklist and internal control procedures
Reviewing and approving monthly brand operating P&Ls, ensuring adequate commentary to address fluctuations in trend and variance to budget
Collaborating within the General Accounting and finance departments as well as with cross functional team members, such as in brand operations, marketing, etc. to support the achievement of overall department goals and objectives
Monitoring and analyzing the work of direct reports to develop and implement more efficient procedures, technology utilization and automation, and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy