Manager of Accounting

About Our Company

Lids is the largest licensed sports retailer in North America, selling fan and fashion-oriented headwear and apparel across the US, Canada, and several international countries. Operating out of Indianapolis, IN, our retail stores offer officially licensed headwear and apparel from collegiate and professional sports teams, plus top brands like Nike, New Era, Adidas, and Mitchell & Ness. Lids U partners with Barnes and Noble Education managing all aspects of the emblematic general merchandise and hard goods for almost 800 college bookstores across North America. Lids Sports Group companies is a general merchandise company that provides all emblematic apparel, hard goods and backpacks to Barnes and Noble Education’s college bookstores. We strive for excellence by bringing the highest quality of products, range of assortment and at the best prices possible for each of our partners.  We currently operate 1,200+ locations domestically and 50+ internationally, including specialty concept stores for the NBA, NHL, Paris Saint-Germain, and numerous MLB teams. In recent years, Lids has built partnerships with iconic global brands including Marvel, Playboy, and the Harlem Globetrotters, and gained ambassadors like Justin Jefferson, Quavo, and Josephine Skriver – creating a community for both sports fans and fashion lovers.

We are hiring a Manager of Accounting to provide financial leadership by managing general accounting and financial reporting activities to ensure accurate and timely compliance with all internal & external reporting requirements for Fanatics Commerce’s retail business, which includes Lids and Lids University

General Position Summary

The ideal candidate for this position will be a visionary leader who displays a passion for strengthening the team and fostering collaboration, learning and growth. To be successful in this job, you must be a forward looking, proactive leader with business experience in increasingly complex businesses, across geographies and business channels. The candidate must be an experienced, collaborative accounting professional with the background and interpersonal skills sufficient to function successfully in a growth-enabling and challenging position. He or she must have the ability to embrace and assume “ownership” of various processes and reports, implementing structure and enhancing maturity. Attention to detail, superior organizational and project management skills, and exceptional communication skills are important

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

• Support ongoing business acquisition and related integration activities including accounting policy, controls, financial consolidation, and reporting support.
• Manage consolidation, analysis, and monthly reporting of financial results of Lids and Lids U.
• Lead cross-functional accounting and finance projects including systems implementations, policy development and operationalization of technical accounting and reporting matters.
• Identify and determine appropriate accounting for intercompany transactions through coordination with Fanatics and other segment accounting leaders.
• Prepare ad hoc financial reporting requests, other analyses and special projects requested by management, including technical accounting research, technical guidance in preparing transactional accounting, and documenting in memos, as needed.
• Lead various financial analyses to investigate financial results and understand impacts for communication to management.
• Assist in preparing and developing the retail business to scale-up and be SOX compliant based upon process improvements, sourcing and implementing the proper technology, and placing proper talent within key roles.
• Assist with driving compliance with GAAP and implementation of new standards.
• Maintain effective relationships with organizational leaders across holding company, external business partners and shared-service controllership, tax, treasury, legal, FP&A functions, and a broad group of cross-functional business teams acting as the conduit to teams on emerging business issues impacting financial reporting priorities.
• Guide other departments by researching and interpreting accounting policy, applying observations and recommendations to operational issues.
• Coordinate and assist with requests from external auditors.
• Assist with managing and developing an efficient, clean, and successful audit.

Job Required Knowledge & Skills

• Bachelor (or higher) degree in accounting or finance; a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) certification is preferred for this role.
• Minimum of 6-10 years of corporate accounting and/or financial reporting experience, public accounting and private experience preferred.
• Minimum of 6 years of US GAAP experience. SEC experience with a public compa