Senior Manager, Accounting and Reporting

Director, Financial Reporting | Up to $155k + Bonus Potential | High Growth Company!

Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul | Flexible Hybrid | Local Candidates Only

Our client is a rapidly growing, private equity-backed company operating in the industrial services sector, with a physical operations footprint spanning multiple locations across the US and internationally. The business has expanded significantly in recent periods, reflecting a period of sustained growth and increasing operational complexity. As the company continues to scale, leadership is focused on building a more sophisticated, audit-ready finance function to support the business long term. This is a newly created leadership role, established to support the organization's continued growth and increasingly complex, multi-national operations. The culture is casual, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced, valuing diverse perspectives, initiative, and comfort with ambiguity. Successful completion of background, drug, and reference checks required!

Responsibilities:

• Own and continuously improve the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process
• Design and implement standardized close calendars, procedures, and best practices across a multi-location structure
• Lead financial reporting activities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with US GAAP
• Serve as a key point of contact for external auditors, managing requests and supporting a smooth annual audit
• Identify, research, and help resolve technical accounting issues, partnering with outside technical accounting advisors as needed
• Oversee consolidation of financial results across US and international entities, including foreign currency translation
• Partner with international accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate integration of overseas financial results
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and development to a team of accounting professionals
• Support the integration of newly acquired businesses into the company's accounting systems and processes
• Evaluate and strengthen internal controls and accounting policies to support a scaling organization
• Collaborate cross-functionally with finance, operations, and other business leaders to support strategic initiatives
• Contribute to due diligence readiness and financial reporting deliverables in support of long-term organizational goals

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting required. CPA highly preferred
• 7+ years’ experience leading financial close processes within a multi-location, multi-national organization
• Prior audit experience with Big 4 or large national public accounting firm preferred
• Demonstrated ability to build and implement close calendars, SOPs, and process improvements
• Experience with, or strong willingness to learn, foreign currency translation and international consolidations
• Prior exposure to cost accounting highly preferred
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth, ambiguous environment
• Excellent communication skills, with the presence to build relationships across all levels of the organization
• Self-starter mentality with an entrepreneurial, hands-on approach
• General awareness of, and openness to, leveraging AI and emerging technology in finance operations
• Willingness to travel periodically, including occasional international travel

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Join a high-growth company with strong momentum
• Take ownership of a newly created role with significant visibility and influence
• Work within a diverse, collaborative, and entrepreneurial culture
• Be part of a leadership team that values new ideas and initiative
• Enjoy a hybrid work schedule with flexibility and meaningful in-office collaboration