Global Director, Accounting

Allstate • Chicago, IL

1d • $190,000 - $250,000 • Remote

About The Position

Allstate Protection Plans, formerly SquareTrade, helps customers protect the products they use every day, from phones and electronics to appliances and furniture. We are seeking a Director of Global Accounting to lead accounting operations, financial reporting, controls, and transformation across our global business. This is an opportunity to shape how a growing, technology-enabled organization approaches accounting while building consistent practices across markets and legal entities. The Director will combine strong technical accounting expertise with practical business judgment, global leadership, and a passion for modernization. A key focus will be responsibly applying AI, automation, and analytics to improve accounting quality, accelerate the close, strengthen controls, and create capacity for more strategic work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• CPA, Chartered Accountant, or comparable professional qualification strongly preferred.
• Progressive leadership experience in accounting, controllership, financial reporting, or audit.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, balance-sheet governance, and close management.
• Experience supporting international operations, multiple legal entities, and global or regional accounting requirements.
• Experience leading accounting transformation, automation, ERP, or finance modernization initiatives.
• Practical understanding of AI, analytics, and emerging technology applications within accounting or finance.
• Experience in protection products, warranties, service contracts, insurance, consumer services, or another regulated industry is preferred.
• Public accounting experience with a major global accounting firm is preferred.
• Strong technical accounting judgment and financial integrity.
• Ability to lead across countries, cultures, and matrixed teams.
• Clear and credible communication with senior leaders and business partners.
• A practical, hands-on approach to solving complex accounting challenges.
• A track record of developing talent and building accountable, high-performing teams.
• Curiosity about emerging technology and a disciplined approach to responsible innovation.
• Accounting, Business Acumen, Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Performance Management (PM)

Responsibilities

• Lead global accounting operations and controllership activities across multiple legal entities and markets.
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial results.
• Maintain consistent application of U.S. GAAP, Allstate accounting policies, and applicable local requirements.
• Provide accounting leadership for new products, commercial partnerships, service contracts, revenue arrangements, claims liabilities, and market expansion.
• Strengthen balance-sheet governance, reconciliations, financial controls, and issue-resolution processes.
• Partner with internal and external auditors to maintain audit readiness and address findings.
• Collaborate with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Technology, Operations, Product, and other business partners.
• Develop and lead a high-performing global accounting team, including talent development and succession planning.
• Establish meaningful performance measures for close timeliness, accounting quality, control effectiveness, and operational efficiency.
• Develop a practical roadmap for using AI, automation, analytics, and process standardization across accounting.
• Identify opportunities to improve reconciliations, variance analysis, transaction classification, anomaly detection, accounting research, and close monitoring.
• Ensure AI-enabled accounting solutions include appropriate human judgment, documentation, data protection, and governance.
• Partner with Technology, Data, Risk, Internal Audit, and Information Security to implement responsible and sustainable solutions.
• Build AI fluency within the accounting team through education, experimentation, and adoption of approved tools.
• Measure transformation success through improvements in accuracy, close speed, controls, scalability, and employee capacity.

Benefits

• Incentive pay (i.e. equity, bonus, etc.)
• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
• Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs for remote employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director