Accounting Manager

About the role

The Accounting Manager is responsible for areas relating to general ledger, balance sheet, and financial reporting. They are also responsible for ensuring compliance with IFRS, ASSA ABLOY Accounting Manual, and ASSA ABLOY Americas accounting guidelines. The role involves reviewing processes, practices, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements and reports, continuously improving efficiency and accuracy of accounting processes, and leading and supervising accounting staff.

Responsibilities

• Help lead accounting changes and manage multiple projects relating to improvement and integration efforts
• Develop, populate, and provide month end reporting requirements for the company
• Review reports and work processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting
• Develop and implement group reporting standards and processes
• Lead the monthly analyses and preparation of general ledger account reconciliations (Prepaid, Accruals, AR, and AP), report variances, report recons through Floqast, recommend and implement processes to reduce errors, and take corrective actions as appropriate.
• Lead weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast process together with annual budgeting.
• Lead analysis and reporting of Sales and forecasting activities for subsidiary
• Analyze AR and assist Shared Services AR by problem solving issues
• Review and submit monthly journal entries and recurring entries to ensure accuracy
• Lead preparation and upload of financial results to ERP reporting systems
• Responsible for Headcount reporting and reconciliations.
• Review GL integrity reports and ensure reconciliation of general ledger to sub ledger detail
• Inputs/Upload/validate Financial Data to corporate financial database OneStream.
• Maintain and monitor recurring journal entries and allocations as needed.
• Act as backup to Controller in closing the periods on the JD Edwards system and preparation of financial statements.
• Assists with special projects.
• Reconciliation of general ledger and sub ledger.

Qualifications

• Education and/or Experience: BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, Business or related; CMA/CPA/MBA preferred. Minimum 5 years of related accounting, financial reporting and analysis experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Mathematical Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, algebraic formulas, and statistics.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to solve practical problems.
• Computer Skills: Proficiency in spreadsheets, email, word processing, and presentation software; extremely proficient in financial modeling and analysis, utilizing Excel formulas. Experience or understanding Excel add in applications like Smart View. Database programs and business intelligence programs like Power BI, and Business Objects is helpful. HFM and JDE system experience will be useful.
• Other Skills: Excellent written/oral communication, organizational skills; must be highly analytical and able to understand complex problems.