Sr. Accounting Manager

• Own and manage key components of the month-end close, including the close calendar, task assignments, and completion tracking.
• Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepaids, reserves, and allocations to ensure accurate and timely recording of transactions.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations prepared by corporate staff, plant controllers, and the shared services team for accuracy, completeness, and adequate support.
• Oversee intercompany accounting, including reconciliation and elimination of intercompany balances across entities.
• Support consolidation of plant and entity results and the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Perform balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, investigating significant variances and providing clear explanations to leadership.
• Coordinate with external auditors during quarterly reviews and the annual audit, preparing schedules and responding to requests.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve close efficiency, accuracy, and automation, including in SAP and reconciliation tools.

Reconciliation Assessment and Remediation

• Perform a rapid, risk-based assessment of balance sheet account reconciliations across corporate and plant entities to pinpoint where quality, support, and timeliness are weakest.
• Develop a prioritized remediation plan based on account materiality, risk, aging of reconciling items, and audit exposure.
• Personally execute cleanup of reconciliations and balances, including researching aged and unsupported reconciling items, proposing correcting entries, and resolving variances between subledgers and the general ledger.
• "Challenge the balance sheet" by ensuring every material balance is supported, accurate, properly classified, and reconciled on a timely basis.
• Apply a forensic approach to trace the root cause of recurring errors and unsupported balances, and recommend lasting fixes to prevent recurrence.

Process Documentation and Controls

• Partner with the corporate accounting team to create and maintain process documentation for the accounting function, including desktop procedures, reconciliation standards, and close checklists.
• Establish reconciliation policies covering preparer and reviewer responsibilities, required supporting documentation, materiality thresholds, and timelines for clearing reconciling items.
• Define clear handoffs and quality expectations for work performed by the offshore shared services team and plant accounting staff.

Required Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of progressive operational accounting experience at a publicly traded, pre-IPO, or enterprise-level company.
• Manufacturing industry experience, including familiarity with plant-level accounting such as inventory, cost accounting, and fixed assets.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large accounting projects, such as close acceleration, reconciliation cleanup, consolidations, or complex financial reporting.
• Hands-on experience preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and managing month-end close activities.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and internal controls over financial reporting.
• Forensic, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to trace transactions and balances to their source.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to executive leadership.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working within large ERP environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• SAP experience
• Experience working with and directing an offshore shared services team.
• Experience with account reconciliation or close management tools.
• Public accounting (Big 4 or national firm) background combined with industry experience.