Manager, External Reporting

 

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Manager, External Reporting:

The Manager - External Reporting is a key role and member within the Windsor Controlling group (the direct parent entity that owns Univar Solutions and is the issuer of privately held corporate debt) and leads preparation and review responsibilities over Univar’s enterprise-wide external financial statement reporting process and collaboratively supports Corporate Treasury in all related debt compliance and lender relations activities.

 

This role is primarily responsible for managing the corporate external financial reporting team including the preparation, review and furnishing of Univar Solutions’ public company-like debt compliance documents, including Annual and Quarterly Reports and quarterly debt certifications and lender presentations. This role is additionally responsible for the annual preparation, review and furnishing of required compliance materials in support of North American defined benefit and defined contribution employee programs, corporate sustainability reporting and, on an ad-hoc basis, managing a process to enable timely responses to requests from various U.S. regulatory agencies (such as census-related).

 

This role is additionally responsible for trouble shooting, investigations and ad-hoc analysis as will routinely arise in the preparation and delivery of periodic consolidated financial statements, and in working across a multi-disciplinary global finance team to design, implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting. This position will additionally be a key point of contact with external auditors.

 

This role is also expected to afford opportunities, as time permits, to own, support and or interact with a variety of important corporate and or technical accounting and financial reporting matters including with respect to, but not limited to, Equity, Investments, Income Taxes, Goodwill and Other Long-Lived Assets, Defined Benefit and Pension Accounting, Derivatives, Debt, Segment and Reporting Unit Determinations, Impairments, Restructurings and Equity/Share Based Compensation.

 

This role owns the management of third-party financial reporting software (Workiva) and works cross-functionally with several internal corporate stakeholders including Treasury, Legal, Tax, FP&A, Consolidations, Accounting Policy & Research, Risk Management and Finance Master Data and, more broadly with Regional/Divisional Finance Managers and Operations personnel.

 

 

What You’ll Do:

• Leads the preparation and review of the Annual and Quarterly Reports furnished to creditors in compliance with debt requirements.
• Assists with the preparation and review of quarterly earnings releases, debt compliance, lender presentations and related management communications.
• Performs technical accounting research and benchmarking against peer companies.
• Monitors U.S. GAAP and SEC developments and supports Accounting Policy & Research group in the disclosure of the adoption of new accounting rules.
• Supports the corporate consolidation financial close process, providing the analysis for the consolidated financial statements, and working with the team to maintain effective internal controls.
• Support in preparation of periodic cash flow statements.
• Partners and provides financial information required by other groups within the company including Treasury, Legal, Tax, and FP&A, as needed.
• Preparation, review and furnishing of required compliance materials in support of annual North American defined benefit and defined contribution employee programs and corporate sustainability reporting.
• Assists in responding to regulatory and census reporting requests.
• Manages global pension accounting, including annual balance sheet pension remeasurements, monthly expense activity and annual disclosures.
• Key point of contact for the annual audit process with the external auditors.
• Performs other related duties as required or requested.

 

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting; an active CPA, or progress toward, is preferred.
• 6-8+ years accounting experience; preference for Big 4 and or corporate industry experience in a large, mu