Director, Corporate Accounting and Consolidations - New Ventures (Hybrid)

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Your Impact

As Director, Corporate Accounting and Consolidations – New Ventures, you will have overall responsibility for the consolidation and monthly close on new business ventures.  You will collaborate with business and functional leaders as necessary to facilitate a timely and accurate close cycle through reporting and statutory audit requirements.  You will also partner closely with the Senior Director, Corporate Accounting and Global consolidations to drive consistency in the global close process while proposing and implementing process improvements to accelerate timelines and improve accuracy. 

What You'll Do 

Location: Hybrid onsite at our Scottsdale, Arizona office OR Onsite at our Seattle, Washington office OR at our Boston, Massachusetts office
Report to: VP, Business Controller

• Oversee US GAAP global consolidations and monthly close on new business ventures.  
• Oversee accounting operations including accruals, payables, cash collections and accounting reconciliations controls.
• Collaborate with business and functional leaders, including FP&A and cross-functional Controllership team such as Revenue, Manufacturing and Cost Accounting, Tax, international statutory accounting and audit, as necessary to coordinate information flow and drive a high quality and timely close submission to Corporate/HQ.
• Co-lead M&A close integration to comply with SOX in a high growth business environment. 
• Oversee monthly and quarterly management financial reporting deliverables, and will be key liaison with external auditors. 
• Maintain and enhance internal controls over financial reporting, including robust process to ensure upstream data impacting the financial statements  is accurate and complete. 
• Oversee the preparation of various flux analysis (e.g., income statement, balance sheet and cash flows). 
• Collaborate with FP&A and business teams to analyze variances related to actual vs forecast.
• Develop KPI to track various stages of close process to provide visibility of close status and optimize close operations.
• Lead special projects such as M&A integration, ERP migration, new accounting and reporting standards implementation. 
• Support ad hoc Controllership projects that arise due to our rapid growth. 
• Liaise with external auditors on audit requests and testing. 

What You Bring 

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• BS or equivalent in accounting or finance
•  CPA
• A mix of Big 4 and industry experience managing global consolidations and financial systems function at complex and multi-national publicly-traded companies
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., D365, NetSuite) and reporting tools
• Strong analytical skills with experience in implementing various analytical techniques for the close cycle.
• Strong business acumen and continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Experience with M&A integration
• Experience with leading ERP implementation, migration and upgrade
• Strong data analytics and system controls skills with ability to understand how these impact accounting and financial reporting processes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong leadership, communication, organization and technology skills

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Experience with D365, NetSuite, Hyperion Financial Management, or OneStream a plus
• Government accounting experience in Aerospace or Defense industry a plus
• Financial Pla