Manager of Accounting

Talent Acquisition Team•Indianapolis, IN

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Indianapolis-based Herff Jones is the nation’s leading provider of handcrafted graduation and educational products and services. With more than 100 years of experience, Herff Jones inspires achievement, fosters memorable student experiences, and builds lasting connections with educators, students, and their families. As the Accounting Manager, you will apply analytical and problem-solving skills to address financial management issues within sales territories, with a particular focus on Commission and Field Bank activities. This role is responsible for facilitating audit requests related to Commissions and Field Banks and ensuring all related information is complete, accurate, and timely. Your role will manage and support 1 onsite Accountant and an offshore team that prepares daily activities, including journal entries and bank reconciliations.

Requirements

Maintain a high level of integrity. Communicate directly and truthfully, with strong ability to establish and maintain effective relationships.
Demonstrate sound business judgment, strong analytical skills and establish a track record of taking ownership, leading fact-based analyses, and influencing results.
Demonstrate a high level of organization and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
Proven ability and willingness to take accountability for process design and management.
Customer service oriented with an ability to partner with individuals at all levels and functions of the business.
Ability to think creatively, innovatively, and strategically in making recommendations to senior leadership.
Demonstrated ability to execute in an ambiguous environment with competing priorities.
Embrace a leadership style based on the Herff Jones Core Values of achieving greatness, doing the right thing, being accountable, showing respect and being passionate.
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
3-4 years’ accounting experience.
Strong in MS Office Applications, particularly Excel, Word and Outlook
Use of large ERP systems such as SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle or Peoplesoft

Nice To Haves

CPA license is a plus.
Supervisory experience a plus
Use of advanced MS applications such as PowerPivot, Power Query and Power BI
SAP and/or Infor experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Implement a standardized process to managing the commission system.
Supervise staff to ensure the commission and field bank accounting is complete and accurate.
Monitor system interfaces and system enhancements impacting the commissions recorded and validate through testing the systems are properly calculating commissions.
Commission and field bank variance analysis and assist in forecasting the balance sheet accounts as well as cash receipts and disbursements.
Assist in the creation of presentations for the Executive Leadership Team to report commission status, overdraft reserve, and field bank receipts as needed.
Monitor and remediate gaps in the internal control structure of the commission and field bank areas.
Balance sheet account reconciliations review and audit
Partner with key stakeholders to continuously improve processes as opportunities for improvement are identified.
Ensure compliance with US GAAP standards, SOX controls and documentation.
Providing relevant and timely information to the Corporate Controller and CFO on balance sheet and cash flow budget/forecast.
Backup preparer for the payment run calculation and release in alignment with the cash forecast, weekly.
Miscellaneous project assistance