North America Accounting Manager

Division Information

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

Reporting to the North America Senior Manager of Accounting, the North America Accounting Manager is responsible for operating expense, transportation and certain commercial accounts of the North America (“NA”) Global Pet Care (“GPC”) and Global Home Care (“GHC”) business units, to include, maintaining an adequate system of accounting records and a comprehensive set of controls designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the Company’s financial results, and ensure that reported results are timely and comply with U.S. GAAP, local and regional requirements, legal mandates, and internal policies and controls.

The NA Accounting Manager will carry out these responsibilities with exemplary leadership characteristics, building relationships and working collaboratively in a matrixed environment, and with constant focus on the latest technologies and process design to drive a lean and cost-effective accounting function.

• Responsible for the timely, accurate, and complete month-end close process for operating expense, transportation, distribution and certain commercial accounts of the NA GPC and GHC business units.
• Preparation, of GPC freight accruals and GPC and GHC A/P accruals and account reconciliations to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, internal policies and SOX controls.
• Review of returns reserve, third-party logistics (3PL) accruals, prepaid asset amortization, marketing accruals, and intercompany profit eliminations journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Ensure financial reporting internal controls compliance over inventory, operating expense, transportation and certain commercial accounts.
• Document certain GPC Canada and GHC distribution center inventory controls.
• Responsible for complete and accurate GPC freight accounting.
• Collaboration with Supply Chain Finance, Asia Transportation Office, and Logistics to ensure accuracy of freight accruals.
• Review and oversight of 3PL distribution invoice reconciliations.
• Ensure solutions to business challenges are implemented.
• Proactively partner with BU Operations Finance to foster strong collaboration.

• Lead employees through effective hiring, orientation, training, mentoring, and coaching.
• Provide ongoing recognition, feedback, and development, holding employees accountable for success.
• Identify and mentor future organizational leaders.
• Provide direction, evaluate, and approve recommendations to ensure appropriate resources are provided to employees.
• Create an environment where employee feedback facilitates positive change.
• Lead direct reports in the execution of strategies and long-range goals. Implement infrastructure and required changes to supporting systems in North America.
• Ensure solutions to business challenges are implemented.
• Foster an accountable environment of goal setting and achievement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required
• 5+ years of related experience required
• CPA preferred
• Role not eligible for sponsorship

• Sense of urgency, speed, action, and courage.
• Owns results. Embraces responsibility and accountability. Creates clear, obvious, and visible value for colleagues.
• Skilled at building…