Lead and develop General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll teams in accounting duties.
Qualifications/Work Experience
• Reporting to the Controller, candidate should have 10 years of progressive business experience. • Other deciding factors will include corporate reporting experience, internal controls experience, and leadership/direction setting and process improvement successes • Supervision of monthly closing (in Oracle); consolidations (in Hyperion) of domestic operations and overseas affiliate plants; and review/publication of monthly financial statements and commentary to Corporate (Kalamazoo, MI) and internal management. • Supervision of the development and submission of quarterly financial schedules. • Supervision of the compilation and submission of annual Financial and Tax packages. • Presentation of financial results to senior management, as required. • Primary liaison with E&Y and Corporate Internal Audit. • Active participation in ensuring sound internal control environment (e.g., poly and procedure development; compliance with Corporate policies; account reconciliations; data integrity maintenance; etc.) as respects general corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. • Responsible for the continuous evolution of financial systems including, but not limited to, ERP Finance applications and the Prophet budgeting/forecasting tool. • Primary Corporate liaison re: accounting, tax, treasury, risk management and other business data requests. • Supervision of the development, publication and continuous improvement efforts (i.e., process improvement) related to monthly performance metrics. • Oversight of Fx exposure management. •Responsible for all aspects of Fixed Asset accounting, Intercompany accounting, AP/Cash Disbursements and Payroll. • Monitoring/control of all balance sheet activity and direct responsibility for certain P&L departments. • Leadership regarding Finance objectives settings and execution. • Ad hoc financial analyses, reporting and senior management presentations, as required.
