Accounting Supervisor : Consolidations
Deerfield, IL

Supervisor, Acctg – Consolidations

Job Summary:

The incumbent will supervise, review and coordinate the preparation of monthly consolidated financial statements and related management reports. Trains, develops and appraises staff in order to maintain a high level of work efficiency, competency and flexibility.

Job Description:

Matrix Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and process oversight for corporate accounting 
• Provides direction to individuals regarding their role and responsibilities to help meet the overall Company objectives, along with the role the department has in fulfilling corporate goals
• Empower and promotes the proper level of responsibility and authority for others to learn, grow into new responsibilities and make the proper decisions to obtain the overall department objectives
• Demonstrates the highest level of integrity and trust in all aspects of the job by working continually towards self-development, staying abreast of all current information and technology, and be knowledgeable with FASB & AICPA governing bodies affecting functional areas to increase innovation and ensure compliance
• Promotes the corporate controller’s group by developing strong relationships between department members and other departments through a high degree of communication across management
• Promotes the matrix organizational structure with direct reports and encourages cross involvement between people and groups

Consolidations Accounting

• Responsible for coordinating and reviewing journal entries and account analysis; along with coordinating maintenance and control procedures for the general ledger system
• Responsible for coordinating and reviewing the completion of the month end consolidation process performed in BPC including data loads, journal entries, and configured logic Identifies and resolves reconciling differences during the monthly consolidation process by reviewing BPC reports and working with the appropriate finance or IT team members
• Identifies BPC and consolidation process improvements as appropriate and helps to manage the implementation of those improvements
• Performs the initial review of the financial statements including BPC validation reports and published financial reports
• Coordinates and reviews preparation and issuance of various reports to management
• Reviews 10K and 10Q footnotes including the debt compliance footnote for condensed consolidating financial statements

Other Responsibilities

• Coordinates year-end audit closing schedules and monitors progress
• Promotes greater analyses skills across the finance team
• Initiates, researches and documents improvements to current methods and procedures
• Performs or directs the performance of special projects as assigned

Staff Supervision and Development

• Plans, coordinates and reviews work assignments
• Identifies training needs and provides resources to meet these needs

Internal Controls

Establishes and implements processes and procedures to meet departmental internal controls requirements.  Ensures that established processes/procedures are followed as designed.  Works with Internal Controls Department to identify deficiencies in existing processes/procedures, the need for new ones, and the extent to which such processes/procedures are being followed.  Develops and implements corrective actions with regard to department internal controls as necessary.

Successful incumbents will have:

• Bachelor’s degree with major in Accounting or equivalent,
• CPA and/or MBA preferred
• Minimum of five years of experience in various areas of accounting with increasing levels of responsibility with supervisory experience in an accounting environment
• Must be knowledgeable of automated accounting software systems (SAP, BPC preferred)
• Must be PC-literate within a windows environment and have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Applications
• Must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills