Accounting Manager

Responsibilities

• Manages the accounting staff who are responsible for financial reporting.
• Recruits and hires accounting and financial staff and conducts performance evaluations.
• Collaborates with AP & Credit teams to manage and facilitate approvals.
• Owns the general ledger for the US and MX, ensuring reconciliations are completed by the team and that our financials are properly stated.
• Prepares journal entries and account analysis in conjunction with month end close.
• Responsible for ensuring the Company’s timely completion of account reconciliations across the organization; including preparation and review of more complex account reconciliation.
• Leads annual financial statement audit.
• Serve as main contact for annual physical inventory.
• Manage US & MX Intercompany transactions monthly ensuring each entity is in agreement.
• Serve as main contact for sales programs such as commissions & copper surcharges, calculating accruals and coordinate payouts.
• Participate in Finance and Continuous Improvement, Cost Savings, Profit Improvement, and Management by Fact projects.
• A driver of process improvement both in finance and the business. Always identifying ways to automate and streamline the close process and other work being done by the finance group.
• Support functional leaders through business partnership, ad-hoc reporting, and mutual ownership and preparation of respective annual budget and quarterly forecasts.
• Analyze and report on business unit expenses including variances compared to budget, prior year, and forecast.
• Assist in preparing monthly financial reporting packages and quarterly financial updates for the Executive Team and Board of Directors.
• Assist in the development and preparation of ad-hoc financial and business analysis.
• Assist in the development, maintenance and roll-out of finance policies and procedures to ensure proper internal control as well as compliance with US GAAP, various regulatory requirements, and internal company policies.
• Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly reports, as required.
• Research and application of technical US GAAP and other international requirements.
• Prepare and submit annual reports, license registrations, 1099’s and other filings to ensure compliance with state and local regulatory compliance.
• Where applicable, coordinate with external service providers engaged to assist with these regulatory requirements.
• Support development of financial schedules, analysis, and presentations.
• Prepare and submit annual reports, license registrations, 1099’s and other filings to ensure compliance with state and local regulatory compliance.
• Other duties and projects, assigned.
• Management Accounting
• Analyze and interpret financial and operational information to both support Company initiatives and to facilitate and execute changes resulting in continuous improvement.
• Assist in the preparation and maintenance of operating and capital expenditure budgets.
• Assist in the creation, revision and maintenance of inventory and cost accounting procedures and systems.
• Treasury Administration
• JPM Access banking software.
• Care for the treasury administrator responsibilities, including coordinating recurring borrowings and interest payments with IEWC’s banking partners.
• Manage cash activity between intercompany partners, assist with intercompany trade settlements.
• Serve as a back-up for monthly bank reporting requirements.
• Participate in annual bank audit.
• Serve as a coordinator for worldwide intercompany finance structure and cash concentration/mobilization initiatives including recommendations for excess cash.
• Assist with treasury and other Continuous Improvement, Cost Savings, Profit Improvement projects;
• Other treasury duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting and five plus years of progressively responsible related experience.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions using learned techniques and tools.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical and business information and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to understand and apply learned concepts.
• Attention to detail, accuracy, and confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and accomplish work to ensure deadlines are met.
• Strong analytical, planning and organization and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work in a Microsoft Windows environment, to work with your department’s business applications and with standard current computer applications.