Manager of Accounting and Financial Reporting

Job Description

Job Description

About Creative Realities

Creative Realities, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREX) is a full-service, digital signage solutions company with a passion and purpose of connecting brands and people in spaces and places they love. We design, develop, deploy, and maintain digital experiences that are contextually relevant, omni-channel, and specific to the physical environment. Our approach is consultative, tech-agnostic, and solution centric. Our capabilities are end-to-end with the ability to deploy at scale - whether its thousands of locations or a single flagship experience.

We specialize in key verticals including Automotive, C-Store, QSR, Heath Care, Retail, and Sports & Entertainment with extensive experience in how digital transforms these environments. Our purpose-built CMS software and ad-revenue / monetization platforms are considered best in class and serve as the backbone for successful installations and ongoing support. Visit  for our full story.

About the Position

The Manager of Accounting and Financial Reporting is responsible for direct supervision of all accounting and financial functions, including direct ownership of financial reporting. The role will be responsible for oversight of all general ledger activities, including for developing and maintaining accounting principles, practices, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements.

Primary accounting responsibilities will include performance and supervision of the monthly close process, invoicing clients for services provided, oversight of collection of accounts receivable, supervising accounts payable, processing of payroll, preparation of quarterly tax projections and annual tax return preparation, and administration of treasury activities.

Primary financial reporting responsibilities will be preparation of the Company’s filings – including Form 8-K, Form 10-Q, and From 10-K – in accordance with SEC rules, drafting of technical accounting memos/position papers, and management of the Company’s financial statement audit.

Primary responsibilities over financial planning & analysis will include assisting the Controller in ownership of the initial preparation of the Company’s annual budget, ongoing forecasting of both revenue and cash flows, completion of budget-to-actual analysis

This position will also be part of a team that creates and implements policies and procedures to identify, resolve and document accounting issues in addition to creating procedures to make the close and reporting processes more efficient and accurate.

This position addresses tight deadlines and a multitude of accounting activities including general ledger preparation, financial reporting, year-end audit preparation and the support of budget and forecast activities. The position will have multiple direct reports and will be responsible for building a high performing team.

Key Responsibilities

Build and Manage Team

• Maintains financial staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees
• Work with each direct reports to establish goals and objectives, monitor and advise on the progress to enhance the professional development of staff
• Manage the accounting team to ensure that work is properly allocated and completed in a timely and accurate manner.

Direct Responsibility:

• Being the power user of the accounting system – know all systems, how one system works with another, ability to identify and resolve issues as they arise
• Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger structure.
• Responsible for performance of bi-weekly payroll processing for US and Canada
• Hands-on driver for completion of a timely monthly/quarterly/annual financial statement close process, including preparation and/or review of key reports, reconciliations and financial statement information
• Responsible for sales tax filings on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis
• Ownership of daily banking requirements – wire transfers, ACH, etc.
• Draft initial budget by establishing schedules; collecting, analyzing, & consolidating financial data
• Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends –…