Accounting Manager

 

 

Job ID:  516748

Exempt

 

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

 

Job Summary

 

Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) is a part of CRH, the leading building materials business in the world. Our products reliably convey, connect, and protect the world’s critical water, energy, communications, and transportation infrastructure within the residential, commercial, and public infrastructure segments. Within IPG, Local Solutions employs +2,600 people and operates 60+ manufacturing facilities with annual revenues of $1.5bn and ambitious growth and investment plans.

 

The Accounting Manager, Center of Excellence (COE) role will report directly to the Director of Accounting and partner with the entirety of the Local Solutions finance organization to lead the efforts on process simplification, standardization, and centralization.  Leading a small team, this role will be critical in establishing best practices and providing guidance to the manufacturing accounting teams.

 

Job Location

 

• This position can be remote based near one of our facilities in the United States.

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Partner with the Local Solutions finance team to prioritize the list of processes and procedures to be simplified and standardized within the organization, including, but not limited to: production reconciliations, journal entries, capital expenditures, fixed asset management, inventory management, internal controls and SOX items, financial and cost reporting, manufacturing KPIs, and operational leadership reporting packages.
• Lead the efforts to seek out current best practices for a process/procedure, create a simplistic and standard process/procedure for the network, seek feedback from all key stakeholders involved in the process/procedure, create training documents for the new standard process/procedure, and roll out the newly effective process/procedure.
• Use technology, where available, to automate processes.
• Seek approval from SOX and Internal Audit organizations prior to updating any processes/procedures that may affect the internal control environment.
• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for most general applications of SAP S/4 Hana within the manufacturing finance and support applications.
• Be available to provide support, troubleshoot, and answer questions team members within manufacturing finance may have on SAP S/4 Hana.
• Lead, coach, develop and mentor a team accounting clerks and support staff.
• Host a recurring series of calls for staff accountants and financial analysts to share best practices, network, and advance business acumen initiatives.

 

Job Requirements

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field. Advanced Degrees, CMA, CPA a plus
  • Relevant work experience could be considered in lieu of a degree for the right candidate.
• 5+ years manufacturing finance and/or cost accounting experience required
• Subject Matter Expert in ERP System for manufacturing finance roles, SAP S/4 Hana preferred
• Prior experience providing hands on training
• Advanced MS Office
• Travel – 10% or more may be required.
• Prior experience in team leadership preferred
• Have a continuous improvement mindset, being able to identify process gaps and inefficiencies and take the lead to work with others to define and implement best practices within a network.
• Results-oriented to ensure delivery of appropriate products and services in accurate, complete, and timely fashion.
• Ability to act independently as a subject matter expert with limited supervision.
• Ability to implement ideas across a multi-plant envi