The Accounting Manager is responsible for providing end-to-end financial control: month-end-close, consolidation, financial analysis, and managing teams for certain designated businesses in North America.  This position reports to the Group Controller for the region and acts as a strategic finance partner to business leadership across North America.

This position will be in-office 4 days per week.

Position Responsibilities:

• Responsible for accounting & Finance for designated business(es)
• Ensure accurate financial reports in a timely manner, including financial statements, balance sheet validation, flux analysis.
• Conducts a complete business analysis to improve financial reporting and forecasting, streamline processes.
• Business Partnering to improve cashflow and profitability (application of functional expertise in finance to enhance decision making in the units throughout the organization).  Controller will recommend actions based on KPI trends, not just report them.
• Prepare forecasts, and budgets including development of templates, structures, and information presentation.
• Assists Group Controller of the region, Global Corporate Controller, and other departments within CFO team as required.
• Review and analyze monthly customer and product profitability.
• Provide business leadership with weekly key performance indicators:
• Inventory Aging Analysis
• Weekly sales and profitability
• Working Capital and Cash Flow projections
• Other weekly KPI’s
• Prepare Capex business cases and ROI analysis.
• Provide oversight of cash flow forecasting, and coordination with treasury for intercompany funding.
• Oversee Physical Inventory count and ledger reconciliation with Director of Supply Chain.
• Support annual audit and any local statutory audits.  
• Ensure compliance with Internal controls.
• Assist or lead SAP implementation (VRS) from financial side.
• Travel up to 25%

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience
• Sound understanding of operations and accounting.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications – specifically excel.
• Experience with SAP, BPC, EPM and Business Warehouse / Business Intelligence
• Ability to instruct and mentor other team members.
• Detail orientated, demonstrated analytical skills.