Shared Services Accounting Manager
Nord Anglia Education
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Miami • Florida • United States
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About the role
- Ensure timely and accurate month-end and year-end closing processes.
- Maintain general ledger integrity and ensure accurate classification of accounts.
- Reconcile complex accounts and resolve discrepancies efficiently.
- Collaborate with auditors to support external audit processes.
- Assist in the preparation of financial statements and notes to the accounts.
- Review journal entries and ensure proper documentation and approval.
- Work closely with other departments to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data.
- Support budgeting and forecasting activities.
- Manages and provides leadership and mentorship to a team of accounting professionals
- Lead and mentor a team of accounting professionals, providing guidance and support to ensure high performance.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the financial services department.
- Identify training and development needs and provide opportunities for professional growth.
- Responsibility for preparation and filing of all centrally managed statutory accounts.
- Responsibility of managing team reviewing monthly and quarterly journal entries for all 11 US schools.
- Responsibility for review and integrity of business unit (school) statutory accounts.
- Responsibility for the accounting of any holding or dormant companies
- Leading on Opening Balance sheet work with new acquisitions.
- Analysis of month end balance sheet identifying reasons for movements and variances to budget/forecast.
- Responsibilities for managing the team recording accounts receivable journal entries for 11 schools.
- Responsibilities for the team managing the accounts payable process, making payments to suppliers and journal entries for 11 schools.
- Streamlining the accounts receivable and accounts payable processes, to create more efficiencies.
- Reporting on Service Level Agreements to schools.
- Responsibility for preparation of the Company Annual and Interim Reports US GAAP and IFRS including full interaction with external audit teams.
- Drives Compliance with NAE Accounting Policy | DOA
- GAAP & IFRS Compliance
- Ensuring compliance of accounting policies and procedures within business units.
- Liaison with Schools on Controls Framework and serves as the primary Group Accounting Contact.
- Leading compliance of new schools accounting with group accounting policies.
- Work with Group FC to align and enhance and standardise financial reports
- Ensure all reporting deliverables are sent on time and in the correct format for both month end, actual and quarterly reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial management, with progressively increasing responsibilities.
- Strong knowledge of financial principles, accounting standards, and financial analysis techniques.
- IFRS and US GAAP
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly analytical
- Advance Excel skills
- Experience in the for-profit education sector is a plus.
- Spanish language proficiency.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial managementfinancial analysismonth-end closingyear-end closinggeneral ledgeraccount reconciliationbudgetingforecastingUS GAAPIFRS
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillsanalytical skillscollaborationaccountabilitymentorshipproblem-solvingtime managementteam management
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)