Accounting Manager

About the role

The Accounting Manager leads and manages a team of accounting professionals responsible for bank reconciliations and transactional matching processes within ARCS and PeopleSoft. This role ensures timely and accurate completion of daily, weekly, and monthly activities, including monitoring and rectifying aged items and high-risk balances. The manager also oversees the governance process for the ARCS reconciliation compliance, develops appropriate monitoring tools, and provides leadership, coaching, and talent development.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages a team of accounting professionals responsible for bank reconciliations and transactional matching processes within ARCS and PeopleSoft.
• Ensures timely and accurate completion of daily, weekly, and monthly activities, including monitoring and rectifying aged items and high-risk balances.
• Owns the governance process for the ARCS reconciliation compliance, ensuring proper user acceptance testing is performed as part of our finance implementation initiative.
• Owns and updates the accounting policy for reconciliation compliance.
• Develops appropriate monitoring tools, leveraging ARCS dashboards and metrics and reporting to senior management on timeliness of reconciliation compliance as well as the aged items.
• Drives process development and continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging technology and automation to enhance efficiency, scalability, and control effectiveness.
• Identifies gaps in existing processes and implements end-to-end solutions that improve data integrity and operational performance.
• Collaborates cross-functionally with various accounting teams, Treasury, Tax, Investment Operations, and other business units to resolve discrepancies, ensure process alignment, and support control compliance.
• Provides leadership, coaching, and talent development, including hiring, performance management, goal setting, and continuous development of team members.
• Builds and sustains a high-performing team aligned with organizational priorities.
• Delivers reporting and insights to senior leadership, including KPIs, aging metrics, risk exposure, and operational performance.
• Communicates complex financial and control information clearly to support decision-making.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of accounting or financial operations experience
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams, including supervisors or senior-level staff
• Strong knowledge of general ledger, bank reconciliation processes, and ICFR frameworks
• Experience with enterprise reconciliation tools (e.g., ARCS) and ERP systems (e.g., PeopleSoft, Oracle)
• Proven ability to manage large data sets and multiple systems to support complex analysis
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and issue resolution skills
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence and present to senior leadership
• Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to changing business needs

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of upstream and downstream impacts, design of appropriate controls, and the development of scalable, well-governed processes
• Collaborates cross-functionally with various accounting teams, Treasury, Tax, Investment Operations, and other business units to resolve discrepancies, ensure process alignment, and support control compliance
• Delivers reporting and insights to senior leadership, including KPIs, aging metrics, risk exposure, and operational performance
• Communicates complex financial and control information clearly to support decision-making

Skills

• Leadership and team management
• Process development and continuous improvement
• Collaboration and cross-functional teamwork
• Financial analysis and reporting
• Communication and presentation skills

Benefits

Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

Pay

$138,150.00 - $168,850.00

Schedule

N/A