Senior Accounting Analyst

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What will you do?

A day in the life of a Senior Accounting Analyst at VF looks a little like this.

The Senior Analyst, Accounting is a highly analytical role focused on driving process improvements, enhancing reporting efficiency and delivering accurate financial insights across multiple brands and channels within a publicly traded company. The position is responsible for ensuring accurate, consistent, and compliant lease reporting, supporting period-end close activities, and leveraging data-driven analysis to improve processes and strengthen financial reporting. The role also serves as a key business partner to teams across the organization, including Accounting, Lease Administration, and FP&A.

Success in this role requires strong technical accounting expertise, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to independently manage and continuously improve processes while navigating complex business models, including wholesale, DTC, e-commerce, licensing, and intercompany transactions.

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

Lease Accounting & Technical Ownership

• Perform and review lease accounting activities, including recognition, modifications, terminations and related journal entries
• Ensure lease accounting is compliant with US GAAP (ASC 842) and is consistent across various brands and entities
• Analyze lease-related balances and ensure accurate reflection in financial statements and corporate reporting

Period‑End Close & Financial Reporting

• Drive month‑end close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations and variance analysis
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting of lease related components of the financial statements in alignment with corporate close timelines
• Assist with the final review of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting deliverables prior to submission
• Partner with Corporate Accounting and External Reporting teams to support quarterly and annual SEC reporting requirements

Controls, Compliance & Audit

• Prepare and provide audit support documentation, including walkthroughs and testing support
• Act as a primary accounting contact for internal and external audits and partner with appropriate teams to ensure completeness of supporting information
• Identify control gaps or process inefficiencies and drive remediation and continuous improvement initiatives

Project Support & Testing

• Participate in system implementations, upgrades and process improvement initiatives
• Support testing efforts for accounting-related projects (e.g., system changes and new processes)
• Validate outputs and ensure accounting accuracy following system or process changes
• Identify process inefficiencies and recommend improvements to enhance controls and reporting accuracy
• Support process efficiency, data validation and financial insights utilizing data analytics tools or emerging technologies such as AI

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 4+ years of experience and professional achievements. 

The foundation skills you will need in this position are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance or related field
• 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, including experience in a multi‑entity or publicly traded environment
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP
• Experience materially contributing to month‑end close, internal control compliance, and audit support
• Proven ability to partner cross‑functionally and communicate complex accounting topics to stakeholders

• Experience in consumer, retail, apparel, footwear, or multi‑brand environments
• Familiarity with data analytics tools or emerging technologies
• SAP experience
• BPC experience

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills