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Director of Accounting POST NUMBER: 417033
Overview: The Director for Corporate Accounting will be responsible for managing large functional teams in the creation, execution, and refinement of financial analyses, business processes, accounting, reporting, and other accounting and finance-related activities.
Education/Training:
- A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
- Five (5) years of direct work experience.
Licensure/Certification:
- CPA required.
Experience:
- Five (5) years of experience in accounting or finance management, public accounting management, or consulting.
- At least five (5) years managing employees.
- Computer experience required with an emphasis on accounting/finance related IT systems management (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fund Accounting, Budget, Purchasing card, Cost Accounting), spreadsheet, and/or database programs.
Essential Functions:
- Serve as a finance business partner to executive leadership on a regular basis.
- Provide financial oversight of complex financial functions and processes, including support to multiple business units.
- Ensure the team supports business planning processes, accounting-related business processes, financial reporting, regulatory filings, and other similar finance and accounting-related activities.
- Ensure the team provides internal and external customers with accurate and timely data to support strategic decision-making and compliance.
- Manage all team members in one or more functional areas.
- Achieve team critical success factors, including anticipating and meeting customer requirements, accuracy and high-quality work products, and cost-effective results.
- Develop a highly effective and flexible team.
- Continuously improve internal processes and seek and implement innovative ways to improve quality and reduce cost.
- Develop team members to meet customer needs with accuracy and high-quality work products.
- Provide accurate internal and external financial accounting and reporting.
- Establish policies and procedures, standards, and objectives in coordination with the organization's vision and goals.
- Serve as the accounting liaison with leadership and CFOs in matters related to accounting and the general ledger.
- Manage various human resource functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and performance counseling.
- Maintain reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
- Maintain compliance with all policies and procedures.
Specialization in Accounting:
- Develop accounting organizational strategies by contributing accounting and financial information, analysis, and recommendations for strategic thinking and direction, and establishing functional objectives in line with organizational goals.
- Oversee identifying, developing, and maintaining accounting journal entries in the assigned areas.
- Maintain an understanding of current GAAP in the assigned areas.
- Maintain assigned accounting-related systems such as general ledger, fixed assets, and other applications, and related upgrade implementation planning, testing, troubleshooting, and problem resolution.
- Ensure assigned staff develop and maintain relationships with internal and external individuals and firms that provide necessary information used in preparation of accounting entries in the assigned areas.
- Manage the work of assigned accounting and financial analyst staff to ensure accurate and timely accounting and reporting.
- Ensure the development and maintenance of adequate internal controls over financial reporting and protection of assets in the assigned areas.
- Monitor record retention for all departmental records, producing as needed for auditors.
- Oversee the management of the external audit process, ensuring accurate and timely provision of requested items to the auditors.
Other Related Functions:
- Chair or lead meetings.
- Possess effective communication and interpersonal skills. Required to effectively communicate complex financial and accounting models and statements to a wide variety of audiences through verbal and written communication.
- Assume the responsibility of professional development and continuing education.
- Complete all mandatory education.
- Ability to manage large projects and oversee leadership of cross-functional teams.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.