Director, Corporate Accounting

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* JOB DESCRIPTION:

** Reporting to the Vice President, Corporate Controller, the Director, Corporate Accounting leads and oversees accounting activities across corporate accounting, including financial instruments, including debt and derivatives, insurance, advertising funds, benefits, legal and corporate support functions; long-lived assets, including fixed assets and leases; and consolidations and intercompany. The Director is accountable for strengthening the talent, processes, controls, and technology supporting these areas and for creating a stable, disciplined, and high-performing operating environment.  

This is a hands-on transformation leadership role in a public-company environment. The Director will oversee management’s execution of remediation activities affecting account reconciliations, manual journal entries, leases, intercompany and consolidation processes, construction in progress, and related resource and capability gaps. The role will partner with the SOX team to operationalize remediation plans into sustainable operating practices, establish clear ownership and accountability, improve the quality and retention of audit evidence, and collaborate with a large group of stakeholders including the second line SOX function, Internal Audit, external auditors, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Accounting Operations, Legal, business partners, and Accounting Systems.  

The successful candidate combines strong leadership presence, operating discipline, technical accounting and internal control expertise, and a proven ability to stabilize teams through significant changes. This leader will set clear standards, develop talent, address performance and capacity gaps, and use automation, workflow, analytics, and standardization to improve close performance, reconciliation quality, journal entry governance, reporting accuracy, and scalability.#
** How you will*
* *** Own It:**
* * Lead, stabilize, and develop a multi-location team of accounting professionals, establishing clear roles, decision rights, performance expectations, review standards, and escalation protocols.
* Create a high-accountability, inclusive culture that values technical rigor, sound judgment, timely execution, constructive challenge, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Assess organizational capability and capacity across assigned areas; strengthen succession, cross-training, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and retention of critical process knowledge.
* Own the quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of accounting activities within the assigned areas of responsibility, including journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analyses, close deliverables, reporting inputs, and audit support.
* Oversee execution of remediation activities within assigned processes and ensure redesigned controls and procedures directly address identified root causes and are embedded into normal operations.
* Partner with remediation owners and the second line SOX function to drive timely resolution of control deficiencies, audit findings, unsupported balances, aged reconciling items, late or unsupported journal entries, and other quality or execution issues; establish sustainable corrective actions rather than temporary workarounds.
* Strengthen preparation and review controls through standardized work papers, documented review criteria, clear evidence of review, appropriate segregation of duties, and disciplined retention of support.
* Lead process redesign and automation across close, journal entries, reconciliations, fixed assets, leases, and corporate accounting activities; reduce manual touchpoints, duplicate work, offline tracking, and avoidable topside adjustments.
* Establish measurable KPIs and operating…