Sr. Principal Team Leader, Cathy Family Office

Overview

The Cathy Family Office exists to serve the Cathy Family and family enterprise as owners of Chick‑fil‑A, Inc. through facilitating stewardship of resources and tools to maintain a healthy enterprise and family.

This position will leverage their knowledge of accounting to help oversee financial statement preparation for 60+ entities. The ideal candidate has strong leadership abilities, a forward‑thinking and collaborative mindset, and demonstrates excellent relationship‑building skills with direct reports, leaders, and peers.

• Oversee the reporting of the Family Enterprise financial statements
• Lead the team responsible for the accounting on various enterprise assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses (including capital assets)
• Serve as final review for all Family Enterprise reporting (60+ entities, varying types of entities)
• Directly oversee GL account reconciliations prepared by team
• Compile insights and commentary for monthly and year‑end financial statement packet provided to family and to leadership
• Oversee identification and mitigation of Internal Assurance risks specific to financial reporting
• Provide oversight on accounting policies specific to team's responsibilities
• Oversee preparation of work papers and address auditor questions and requests for annual financial statement audit
• Oversee partners/consultants and serve as relationship manager for banking relationships
• Use GAAP and not‑for‑profit accounting expertise to partner with the business to provide strategic direction for various projects and new initiatives across the business
• Identify improvement opportunities and work optimization efficiencies for the Cathy Family Office Accounting Function

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, or equivalent work experience
• CPA
• 10+ years of experience
• 3+ years of people development and leadership experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including a mastery of Excel
• Financial acumen; strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Deep knowledge of accounting principles
• Experience with financial statement preparation and review
• Strategic and forward‑thinking mindset
• Extreme attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects while meeting all deadlines
• Self‑motivated; desire to continually improve outputs and meet all deadlines
• Strong organizational, communication and collaboration skills
• Detail oriented
• Ability to partner cross‑functionally with other leaders

• Master's Degree in Accounting

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Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Master's Degree

Accounting

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