Accounting Director

About the role

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. This role supports a multi-year technology development and implementation project by backfilling leaders and subject matter experts in day-to-day accounting and finance activities. The Accounting Director will lead a team responsible for the global monthly close process, maintaining quality to support financial reporting and audit requirements, and interacting with a wide variety of stakeholders to ensure accounting functions meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction, and accountability across multiple Corporate Accounting teams responsible for maintaining the general ledger in alignment with US GAAP, management reporting requirements, and localized GAAP or IFRS conventions for global subsidiaries.
• Establish and maintain clear expectations, accountability, and development plans for managers and their teams to support timely, accurate, and high-quality accounting processes and deliverables.
• Oversee department workload planning, resource allocation, and prioritization to ensure deadlines are met during month-end close, including monthly reporting, annual audits, and special projects.
• Drive consistency and standardization across Corporate Accounting teams and processes, including journal entries, account reconciliations, reporting packages, documentation, and review procedures.
• Monitor key close milestones and deliverables, proactively identifying risks, delays, or dependencies and communicating status to Accounting leadership.
• Serve as subject matter expert for complex accounting matters, process issues, system limitations, and cross-functional dependencies impacting Corporate Accounting deliverables.
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and professional development across the Corporate Accounting team.
• Collaborate with Tax, Payroll, Treasury, Legal, Procurement, Human Resources, Operations, and regional finance teams to ensure transactions are accounted for correctly and provide relevant accounting data to assist in their evaluation and decision-making.
• Support talent planning, succession planning, hiring, onboarding, and retention efforts within Corporate Accounting.
• Evaluate existing processes and controls to identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, improve usability, strengthen compliance, and enhance scalability.
• Oversee the execution of tasks needed to support internal and external audit requirements, ensuring audit requests are addressed accurately, efficiently, and within required timelines.
• Perform accounting research and assist in documenting conclusions on behalf of the company.
• Oversee and provide direction to teams coding large enterprise-wide vendor invoices and invoices received from corporate teams, and providing those invoices to Accounts Payable for processing.
• Oversee team priorities by balancing and supporting day-to-day execution, long-term process improvement, talent development, and strategic department priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or directly related field.
• At least 10 years of corporate accounting, public accounting, internal audit, or directly related experience.
• 3+ years managing teams, preferably managing managers with multiple direct reports.
• CPA or similar designation, or master’s degree in a related field (preferred).
• Proven ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on involvement in complex accounting, reporting, and process matters.
• Strong ability to prioritize competing deadlines and lead teams through high-volume close, reporting, and audit cycles.
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with evolving priorities, system changes, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify risks, evaluate alternatives, and escalate matters appropriately.
• Ability to communicate complex accounting or process matters clearly to both accounting and non-accounting stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen and ability to understand how accounting activities impact financial reporting, operational decisions, and stakeholder needs.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build credibility with senior leaders, peers, managers, and cross-functional partners.
• Highly analytical with a strong eye for detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Structured and organized approach.
• Excellent financial and management reporting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle EBS experience.
• Architecture/Engineering/Construction (A/E/C) industry or similar professional services experience.
• Preference given to local candidates.

Location

United States-Nebraska-Omaha

Schedule

Full-time

What We Believe

At HDR, we foster a collaborative culture where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected, and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day. Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and provide a supportive environment for all employees.