Manager, Corporate Accounting

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced accounting professional to join our Corporate Accounting team as a Corporate Accounting Manager. This role leads a team of accounting professionals and plays an integral role in driving the month-end close and consolidation processes, with a strong focus on operational excellence, continuous improvement, and achieving best-in-class results.

The ideal candidate will provide leadership and oversight throughout the month-end close cycle, including the review of journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reports, as well as supporting various accounting initiatives and projects. This role will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data, maintaining compliance with established internal controls, and coaching and developing team members to consistently deliver high-quality results.

Success in this position requires the ability to lead and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving business environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who is adaptable, proactive, comfortable navigating change, and able to balance day-to-day execution with broader process improvements. This individual must also demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with a geographically and culturally diverse group of finance professionals and cross-functional partners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee key areas of the month-end and quarter-end close process, ensuring accounting activities are completed accurately and within established timelines
• Review journal entries, reconciliations, account analyses, and accounting conclusions for assigned US general ledger accounts, including joint ventures, prepaid expenses, cloud computing arrangements, debt, and other assets and liabilities
• Review monthly and quarterly reporting schedules and fluctuation analyses, ensuring significant movements and accounting matters are appropriately identified and communicated to management
• Manage, coach, and develop accounting team members, including setting priorities, reviewing work, providing feedback, and monitoring deliverables
• Provide guidance and training to global accounting teams on reconciliation best practices and oversee periodic quality reviews to promote compliance with established standards
• Design, implement, and maintain effective accounting processes and internal controls, including compliance with SOX requirements
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate accounting processes, partnering with accounting transformation and other cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions and support new business initiatives
• Provide accounting guidance and support to cross-functional teams, including resolving journal entry, account analysis, and general ledger matters
• Support internal and external audit activities and other accounting projects as needed

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably including public accounting and corporate accounting experience with a publicly traded company
• Experience leading and developing accounting professionals
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, SEC regulations, and SOX 404(b) compliance
• Experience with global financial systems, preferably SAP and Oracle
• Experience driving process improvement, standardization, automation, and technology initiatives
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with strong attention to detail and sound judgment

Preferred:

• Active CPA license

Skills:

• Strong leadership and people-management skills, with the ability to coach, develop, and motivate team members
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to communicate accounting matters clearly and concisely and build effective relationships across functions, geographies, and levels of the organization
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and drive sustainable solutions
• Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and navigate changing priorities, processes, and systems