Director of Accounting and Finance, Distribution

Why Us?

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With nearly 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

Could This Be For You?

The Director of Accounting and Finance, Distribution will report to the Vice President of Finance, Products & Services and provide customer service to the executives managing the Distribution business. The position is located in Alpharetta, Georgia.

 

This critical role will oversee the accounts receivable and cash application functions, financial analyses, budgeting, forecasting, long range planning, cost/profit improvement initiatives, management reporting, and compliance with company policies and procedures for the Distribution business unit.

 

This leader will forge strong relationships with business partners and work through the team to assist company executives by providing financial information to be used in analyzing business performance and in making economic decisions that will affect future investment and business objectives. 

 

A Candidate’s demonstrated leadership and management skills will be highly valued as a key member of the management team.  This individual will enjoy an excellent opportunity to join a growing $1.7 billion revenue healthcare company that delivers advanced Orthotic and Prosthetic solutions to the inspiring patients we serve. 

 

A Candidate’s, clear and persuasive communication style will be valued across a community of colleagues committed to the pursuit of Empowering Human Potential Together.

Your Impact

• Supervise the accounts receivable and cash application accounting functions, including journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end, quarter-end and annual close processes.
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial data.
• Implement and maintain accounting systems and software.
• Lead the annual budgets, monthly forecasts, strategic planning and variance analyses for Distribution ensuring operational results are evident in the numbers, and that the numbers are understood by business partners, the Senior Operating Committee (“SOC”) and accurately reflected in the corporate systems (Oracle, etc.)
• Manage the financial calendar ensuring milestones are achieved with ease, issues are resolved early and resolution communicated
• Implement and monitor controls to prevent fraud and errors.
• Work with the operations teams to improve accounts receivable collections.
• Ensure that financial records are maintained in compliance with company policies and in alignment with all regulatory guidelines including, but not limited to US GAAP, SEC reporting timelines and internal control requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”)
• Coordinate annual internal and external audits; responsible for implementing agreed upon recommendations related to areas of responsibility, resulting from audit findings including remediation of issues identified in SOX key controls.
• Analyze financial and operational data, and develop financial models used to guide business decisions (e.g. profitability by customer, daily volume, proposal review, pricing / margin analyses, waterfalls and bridges for variances, ROI/IRR/NPV/Capital Budgeting, etc.)
• Create and deliver formal presentations of financial results to senior management (Monthly Business Reviews, Budget Presentations, Strategic Plan Presentations, etc.), being the finance voice behind the numbers in support of business partners
• Provide timely responses and deliverables to requests from internal customers from functions including Sales, IT, Marketing, Accounting, Corporate Finance and other segment owners
• Perform other job duties and ad hoc projects as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required
• CPA is required.

• 10 years of progressive Accounting and Finance or related experience with at least 5 years of supervisory/management experience

• Strong understanding of US GAAP and accounting concepts
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