Consolidation Lead

The Consolidations Lead will be key point of contact for consolidation, reporting, financial master data, and system-related questions assist with the consolidated corporate accounting close. This role is responsible for supporting accurate, timely, and well-controlled consolidated financial results across legal entities, portfolios, and reporting dimensions.

The role works closely with FP&A, Operations, Financial Reporting, Technical Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Project Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Tax, Treasury, IT, and other cross-functional stakeholders to support the monthly and quarterly close, internal reporting deliverables, financial statement support, SOX readiness, audit requirements, and finance transformation initiatives.

As the Consolidation Lead, you will:

Perform the Consolidation & Corporate closing procedures, such as:

• Manage the consolidated corporate accounting close process and related timelines.
• Ensure correct intercompany balances are reflected at the end of each month.
• Review balance sheet and income statement intercompany eliminations on a monthly basis.
• Review monthly and quarterly financial statements for a subset of corporate entities with a high volume of intercompany balances.
• Review journal entries for accuracy, completeness, and appropriate support.
• Support foreign currency accounting, entity ownership changes, acquisitions, reorganizations, and other complex transactions impacting consolidation.
• Research and resolve consolidation variances, data issues, and unusual financial statement fluctuations.

Support internal reporting and financial statement reporting through:

• Providing and supporting monthly and quarterly deliverables for Financial Reporting team.
• Prepare and review supporting schedules, analysis, and reporting packages for management, executive leadership, auditors, and other stakeholders.
• Drive consistency and accuracy in internal reporting across legal entities, portfolios, lines of business, projects, and corporate reporting structures.

Perform Financial analysis, such as:

• Quarterly analytics at a consolidated level, including key balance sheet items and any significant fluctuations and business drivers.
• Prepare year-to-date variance analysis at the consolidated level, including analysis of actual results against prior periods, forecasts, budgets, and other relevant benchmarks.
• Maintain audit-ready support for quarterly analytics, consolidated flux analysis, YTD variances, and related explanations used in internal and external reporting deliverables.

Oversee Financial Systems, Master Data & Governance through:

• Acting as a key point of contact for consolidation, reporting, financial master data, and system-related questions.
• Maintaining complete knowledge of the Company's financial master data, including dimensions, legal entity hierarchies, cost centers, lines of business, ledgers, projects, chart of accounts, ownership structures, reporting hierarchies, and related metadata.
• Designing, managing, and maintaining portions of the consolidation and reporting system, including entity structures for various portfolios and appropriate financial reporting hierarchies.
• Working with system administrators and Finance Transformation teams to ensure accurate entity setup and appropriate flow of financial data into consolidated financial statements and management reporting.
• Serving as a finance subject matter expert for Oracle ERP and Oracle EPM, including FCCS, ARCS, EDMCS, Smart View, and related reporting and reconciliation processes.
• Supporting acquisitions, new entity setup, organizational changes, new projects, legal entity changes, and portfolio reporting changes through proper master data and reporting structure design.
• Identifying opportunities to automate,…