Manager, Accounting
Ensono · Downers Grove, IL · 1 mo ago
On-siteFinance$100k–$148k/yrFull-time
About the role
This position is responsible for managing the company’s global financial consolidation and reporting processes, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. This role serves as a key partner to global and regional accounting teams, leading the monthly close and consolidation process, supporting technical accounting initiatives, and playing a critical role in maintaining a strong financial control environment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a power user of financial consolidation and reporting systems (e.g., Workday, Office Connect), optimizing system capabilities, data integrity, and reporting efficiency.
- Lead the global monthly close and consolidation process, ensuring timely, accurate completion.
- Drive continuous improvements to close timeliness, accuracy, and predictability, including root cause analysis of close issues and recurring adjustments.
- Cook up with global, regional, and revenue accounting teams to resolve issues, drive consistency, and ensure timely balance sheet reconciliations.
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements, performing variance analysis and validating results against underlying accounting records in partnership with regional teams.
- Ensure compliance with global accounting policies and US GAAP, supporting technical accounting initiatives, including new accounting standard implementations and complex contract reviews.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation and serve as a primary liaison for external auditors, supporting and enhancing the financial reporting control environment, including identification and remediation of control gaps.
- Support enterprise accounting initiatives and drive continuous improvement across close, consolidation, and reporting processes.
- Lead, coach, and develop members of the financial reporting and consolidation team, fostering accountability and high performance.
- Build strong relationships with finance and business leaders, proactively identifying issues and delivering solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting and CPA
- Public accounting experience
- 7 years progressive accounting experience, including experience managing people
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and global financial reporting requirements
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a global, matrixed environment
- Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills
Qualifications
- Preferred: Experience in managing financial consolidations and global close processes
- Experience with Workday Financials and/or Office Connect (or similar consolidation and reporting tools)
Benefits
- Unlimited Paid Days Off
- Three health plan options
- 401k with company match
- Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
- Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Paid childbearing and paternal leave
- Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness program
- Flexible work schedule
Pay
A good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $100,000 to $148,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs.