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Title: Senior Accounting Manager
Department: Finance
Job Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid, in office 1-day a week)
Reports To: Assistant Controller
Supervisory Role: Yes
FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Summary:

Under the direct supervision of the Assistant Controller, this position will manage a team, daily operations and general ledger accounting activities ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting standards (GAAP) and maintenance of an adequate set of internal controls to mitigate risk and enhance accuracy of the company’s financial results in accordance with GAAP. The ideal candidate will have strong technical accounting skills, working knowledge of GAAP, relevant work experience in a private and public accounting setting and ability to combine technical and management responsibilities with doing hands on accounting work. This role will serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for critical areas such as distributions, collections, leading the consolidated Financial Statements audits and 401k audits. This role will have experience working with minimal supervision and provide technical accounting guidance to other team members, ensuring accuracy of GL and reporting. This role will also lead multiple projects simultaneously.

Essential Functions:

• Manage day-to-day activities (and serve as SME) for all transactions related to distributions, salaries and benefits, royalty collections, investments, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, capitalized software costs, leases and intercompany transactions for all legal entities, etc.
• Manage relationship with financial institutions to facilitate smooth banking operations and ensure adequate cash flow to meet the company’s needs.
• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual close process and timelines, including reviewing reconciliations for accuracy and the preparation and review of various internal and external reports and the stand-alone and consolidated financial statements within required close timeline.
• Manage the consolidated financial statement audits, including coordinating and managing audit timeline, preparing and reviewing audit workpapers and the audit report.
• Review of system generated consolidated and stand-alone balance sheet and income statement monthly.
• Manage, train and evaluate team members.
• Responsible for the consolidation process including the recording and review of consolidating entries, reconciliation of intercompany and investment in subsidiary and other complex related transactions
• Prepare annual financial statements, including cash flows, footnotes and disclosures in accordance with GAAP
• Analyze and reconcile translation adjustment transactions
• Ensure intercompany transactions are handled with accuracy and reconciled monthly to ensure proper elimination.
• Research, document impact of new accounting standards, and implement changes. Present impact to the team and auditors for review.
• Serve as the technical GAAP expert for the team on various areas including new accounting standard updates, or the treatment of existing transactions for the organization and its subsidiaries
• Serve as backup to manage accounts payable as needed
• Perform ongoing assessments, recommend, and implement improvements to process, policies, procedures, internal controls, and tools that realize greater operating efficiencies while maintaining accuracy of the financial records.
• Establish reporting metrics dashboard to provide status of monthly tasks and deliverables, with an emphasis on timely and accurate operational accounting activities
• Coordinate training programs for new staff and ongoing training needs for current staff in a continuous staff development environment.
• Work closely with the business owners in cross-functional teams to provide comprehensive accounting requirements related to internal software development
• Lead or participate in the implementation of new financial systems and upgrades to existing systems.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs):

• Ability to understand issues, demonstrate resourcefulness and pro-actively and creatively resolve problems
• Ability to organize and concisely present verbal and written communications, including providing guidance to junior staff members, presenting accounting information to non-accountants, drafting accounting memos
• Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in taking complicated financial information and presenting it in the form (financial and written) that is easily understandable and meaningful to an audience that is not well-versed in financial terms
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize multiple/concurrent tasks, identify issues and resolve problems, and to meet deadlines in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with minimal supervision
• Must have strong Microsoft Office and other computer skills (proficient use of Excel and Power Point required)
• Experience with Great Plains, Dynamics 365 or large ERP system and implementations preferred
• Demonstrate commitment to company core values, including a positive attitude and customer service towards internal and external parties

Required Education, Certifications/ Licenses, Related Experience:

• CPA required
• BA/BS Finance or Accounting degree or equivalent
• 8+ years related Accounting experience with demonstrated increase of responsibilities
• Strong technical knowledge and application of GAAP and financial reporting requirements including financial statements and financial statements footnotes
• At least 4 years in a people management role, with experience leading, motivating, and developing talent

ADA Specifications:

• This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing and/or seated) more than half the time.
• The person in this position may need to move about the corporate office(s) less than half the time.
• This position requires the ability to spend more than half the time viewing computer monitors

Travel Requirements:

• This position has no travel requirements

 

Pay Range:  $167,000 -  $178,000