
Director of Accounting
Cimatron
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: North Carolina • Ohio • United States
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About the role
- Own and lead accounting operations across the SigmaTEK and Cimatron legal entities, with full accountability for accurate, compliant, and timely entity-level reporting.
- Drive the monthly and quarterly close process, ensuring high-quality accounting, balance sheet integrity, and adherence to group accounting policies across more than 20 legal entities.
- Own and manage the group consolidation process, including intercompany accounting, eliminations, and consolidation systems, ensuring accurate and efficient consolidated financial results.
- Strengthen internal controls and core accounting processes to support scalable growth, improve close quality, and mitigate financial and operational risk.
- Partner closely with Business Unit Controllers, Business Area Controlling, and finance teams to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and transparency of consolidated results.
- Serve as the primary authority on accounting standards and policies, ensuring consistent interpretation and application of IFRS and group accounting policies across all legal entities.
- Lead the preparation and coordination of statutory financial statements and act as the primary point of contact for external auditors.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing accounting organization, managing a team of 10+ accounting professionals across 5+ locations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, standardization, automation, and transparency across accounting, close, and reporting processes.
- Support the business simplification process by actively reducing the number of legal entities, leveraging the broader Sandvik infrastructure to optimize entity footprints.
- Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve accounting, compliance, and reporting risks to protect financial integrity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in accounting, external reporting, audit, or group finance within a multinational environment.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of IFRS; experience operating in complex, multi-entity reporting structures.
- Demonstrated expertise in internal controls, compliance, and external audit management.
- Solid understanding of ERP, consolidation, and financial reporting systems and their impact on accounting quality.
- Familiarity with Net Suite and/or One Stream applications a plus.
- Proven experience leading and developing accounting teams, including cross-border or multi-location teams.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment, manage risk, and make decisions in a fast-paced, deadline-driven reporting environment.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and escalate issues when necessary.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools or automation to improve productivity and operational effectiveness, or a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn, evaluate, and apply such technologies at scale.
Benefits
- Global scope with meaningful impact across the organization
- High-visibility role partnering closely with senior finance leadership
- Opportunity to shape and strengthen accounting, controls, and reporting at scale
- Collaborative, international finance environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
accountingexternal reportingauditgroup financeIFRSinternal controlscompliancefinancial reportingERP systemsconsolidation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencingjudgmentrisk managementdecision makingteam developmentproblem solvingcollaborationcontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in AccountingBachelor’s degree in FinanceBachelor’s degree in Business Administration