Director, Finance & Accounting

Skyline Furniture is a family-owned and operated wholesale furniture manufacturer based just outside Chicago. For more than 80 years, Skyline has combined handcrafted manufacturing with fashion-forward design to produce custom-made upholstered furniture for leading retailers across the country.

Skyline is seeking a hands-on, technology-minded Director of Finance & Accounting to lead our accounting and financial operations while driving improvements to the systems, data, and processes that support our business.

This is a highly visible role that will work directly with Skyline’s executive leadership team and collaborate across manufacturing, operations, supply chain, sales, HR, and IT. We are looking for someone who combines a strong finance and accounting foundation with an operational, systems-oriented mindset.

This is a hands-on leadership position and is well suited for an experienced Finance or Accounting Manager or Senior Manager ready to take the next step in their career. The ideal candidate enjoys understanding how a business works, digging into data and processes, and finding better ways to accomplish work through technology, automation, and continuous improvement.

Finance & Accounting Leadership

• Lead the company’s accounting and finance operations, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, payroll oversight, and financial reporting.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting in accordance with GAAP.
• Lead the monthly close process and continually identify opportunities to improve its accuracy, consistency, and efficiency.
• Maintain appropriate internal controls, accounting policies, and financial procedures.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting processes and regularly evaluate actual performance against expectations.
• Develop financial reporting, KPIs, and analysis that provide management with clear and actionable insight into company performance.
• Coordinate annual review and tax activities and manage relationships with external accounting and tax partners.

Financial Analysis & Business Partnership

• Work directly with the executive team to provide financial analysis and support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Partner closely with manufacturing and operations leadership to understand production costs, labor performance, margins, and other key drivers of profitability.
• Develop reporting and analytical tools that improve visibility into business performance and help leaders make better, faster decisions.
• Support analysis of pricing, customer and product profitability, capital investments, and other business initiatives.
• Collaborate across operations, supply chain, sales, HR, and IT to ensure financial information and processes effectively support the broader organization.

Systems, Technology & Process Improvement

• Serve as a key business owner and power user of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Skyline’s core accounting and financial ERP platform.
• Identify opportunities to better utilize Business Central and related systems to improve financial workflows, reporting, data accuracy, and overall efficiency.
• Partner with IT and functional leaders to improve the flow and integration of financial and operational data across systems.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or inefficient processes and develop practical solutions to simplify or automate them.
• Evaluate and implement AI-enabled tools, automation platforms, system integrations, and other emerging technologies that can improve finance and accounting productivity.
• Develop more automated and scalable approaches to financial reporting, reconciliations, forecasting, data analysis, and other recurring processes.
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