Manager, Accounting

Responsible for maintaining the integrity of the general ledger and ensuring it meets Company and U.S. GAAP accounting and reporting requirements as necessary. Ensures all financial reports are completed accurately and timely. Reviews all policies related to General Accounting to ensure that policies continue to have relevant controls, approval limits, etc. and address all external audit recommendations. Manages a staff responsible for General Accounting.

About the Role

Responsibilities:

• Leads monthly financial close activities related to sales force events and awards, car program, prepaid expenses, and other miscellaneous items.
  • Responsible for gaining a working knowledge of all accounts on the balance sheet and income statement and able to identify, question and challenge unusual activity for the entire General Ledger.
  • Ensures accurate financial results by reviewing and approving journal entries prepared by staff, reviewing financial statements, analyzing account balances for unusual trends, and presenting results to Management.
  • Interfaces with Company Executives concerning development and interpretation of policies and analysis of financial data.
  • Determines the most appropriate means to handle unusual accounting transactions that fall outside of normal working parameters.
  • Leads monthly close meeting and ensures all follow-ups are resolved.
• Responsible for maintaining the integrity of the general ledger and ensuring it meets Company and U.S. GAAP accounting and reporting requirements as necessary. Ensures all financial reports are completed accurately and timely.
  • Reviews monthly U.S. financial reports for errors, abnormalities, or other outliers and leads investigation of those amounts to ensure final financials are accurately stated.
  • Alerts Director to any significant issues or variances and also communicates with other appropriate leadership within the organization where necessary (VPs, Executives, etc.).
  • Ensures all areas under management maintain adequate personnel coverage and serves as a backup for direct reports when needed.
  • Spends time each month reviewing entries and reconciliations outside of team's immediate scope to provide overall general ledger oversight and review.
• Owns the Record to Report (R2R) and Sales to Cash (S2C) relationships and helps team manage external contractors assigned to support general accounting as part of a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) strategy.
  • Leads team responsible for ensuring all appropriate access to North American systems, Share Points, and shared network drives. Ensures contractors are onboarded quickly and effectively.
  • Holds BPO contractors accountable to established KPI's and SLA's for the R2R and S2C towers and quickly escalates any concerns related to the BPO to management.
  • Supports team in reviewing BPO contractor work, especially when BPO personnel changeover occurs or when new work is handed off to the BPO team.
• Manages the financial aspects of ERP system upgrades, modifications, and implementations.
  • Ensures that financial reporting and data integrity requirements are incorporated in the project plans and that system testing is complete.
  • Provides training to employees throughout the Company when system upgrades and policy changes are implemented.
  • Helps team members adapt to changes and provides guidance for assisting employees with questions.
  • Assists other markets using the same ERP system (Canada) with system upgrades or changes and may provide other indirect accounting support as needed.
  • This job requires on-site work at a Mary Kay facility.

Skills & Experience

Experience: 7+ years of experience in accounting, 3+ years of supervisory experience

Education: Bachelor/University Degree in Accounting

Certification
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Certified Public Accountant (CPA) required

Additional Skills & Abilities:

• Understanding of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), audit technique to test financial/operations controls.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and good interpersonal skills in order to effectively communicate with all levels of employees including IT support team on system enhancements.
• Intermediate knowledge of U.S. business entertainment tax rules is required.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to successfully manage multiple projects, expectations of multiple business partners, and changes in priorities.
• Internal Controls:
  Writes and reviews policies and procedures with an internal control mindset. Gives guidance on improving internal controls and policies and procedures within own area and with business partners. Identifies issues with internal controls and makes recommendations for improvements.
• Technology:
  Utilizes digital tools to perform tasks at a high level of productivity. Identifies and supports transformation of processes with technology and evaluates the cost effectiveness, ROI, and key benefits of new or existing technologies. Identifies when use of digital tools is not effective or…