Manager, Professional Services
Vasion
Senior Accounting Manager
First American
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona
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💰 $86,675 - $115,550 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Responsible for managing revenue recognition, operations, and accounting activities for a large department in accordance with the organization’s accounting policies and procedures.
- Influences the development and implementation of strategic goals and ensures employee conformance to established practices and proper training of staff.
- Direct and monitor a variety of accounting activities to ensure the organization’s financial resources are managed in accordance with accounting principles and comply with all relevant regulations, laws, and standards.
- Review financial reports and accounting statements to ensure their accuracy.
- Provide technical expertise and advice to functional or operational areas managers to help them develop revenue and expense budgets, understand financial reports, and manage their financial responsibilities.
- Select and manage ongoing relationships with external consultants and advisors (e.g., accounting firms) to ensure the organization receives satisfactory standards of service.
- Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of accounting professionals to ensure accounting activities are completed accurately and on time.
- Support general accounting needs of a large entity.
- Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with company policies.
- Establish and monitor the implementation and maintenance of accounting controls and procedures.
- Manage accounting systems and procedures; recommend and implement improvements.
- Maintain financial security by ensuring that staff adheres to internal controls; primary point of contact for audits.
- Participate in the design and implementation of systems and processes to ensure compliance with all governing bodies.
- Establishes operational objectives, processes, procedures and priorities for a department selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Manage more senior level exempt specialists and/or subordinate supervisors and managers.
- Has significant responsibility for developing the capabilities of senior level direct reports.
- Present projects for management approval; approves overall solutions, designs and cost estimates for projects.
- Monitor project status to assure adherence to cost, quality and schedule.
- Write and conduct employee performance reviews and provides ongoing performance feedback through coaching.
- Approve hiring and compensation decisions.
- Facilitate work and problem resolution between work groups.
- May lead cross functional/inter-departmental projects and/or process improvement efforts.
- Develop long-range departmental planning and provide input to strategic planning.
- Involved in developing, modifying and executing policies, processes that impact business unit, and may have company-wide effect.
- Implement strategic policies by leveraging best practice frameworks, methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- MBA preferred
- 7-10 years of directly related experience
- 5+ years demonstrated experience in a management role
- CPA preferred
- Deep subject matter expertise
- Analytical, project management and problem solving skills
- Ability to understand and apply GAAP and SOX
- Successful track record designing, developing, and executing critical complex projects
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at the Senior Management level
- Experience recruiting, retaining and developing talent
- Strong capacity to communicate and influence
- High level of business acumen, strategic agility, ability to develop others, and influence change
