Accounting Director

Accounting Director

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world? Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better.

We are mobilizing a team of leaders and subject matter experts within HDR to support a multi-year technology development and implementation project. These leaders and subject matter experts will be fully utilized in this technology implementation, creating several permanent openings within our team to backfill these individuals in supporting day-to-day accounting & finance activities and teams.

The Accounting Director will lead a team responsible for the global monthly close process, maintaining quality necessary to support financial reporting and audit requirements, and interacting with a wide variety of stakeholders to verify that accounting functions are meeting business needs. The Accounting Director will lead and maintain a strong team of professionals that enable HDR to maintain high quality and achieve results in these areas.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, direction, and accountability across multiple Corporate Accounting teams.
• Establish and maintain clear expectations, accountability, and development plans for managers and their teams.
• Oversee department workload planning, resource allocation, and prioritization.
• Drive consistency and standardization across Corporate Accounting teams and processes.
• Monitor key close milestones and deliverables.
• Serve as subject matter expert for complex accounting matters.
• Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and professional development.
• Utilize high collaboration with various teams to ensure transactions are accounted for correctly.
• Support talent planning, succession planning, hiring, onboarding, and retention efforts.
• Evaluate existing processes and controls to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Oversee the execution of tasks needed to support internal and external audit requirements.
• Perform accounting research and assist in the documentation of conclusions.
• Oversee and provide direction to teams coding large enterprise-wide vendor invoices.
• Oversee team priorities by balancing and supporting day-to-day execution, long-term process improvement, talent development, and strategic department priorities.

Characteristics of a successful Candidate:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or directly related field.
• At least 10 years of corporate accounting, public accounting, internal audit or directly related experience.
• 3+ years managing teams, preferably managing managers with multiple direct reports.
• CPA or similar designation, or master's degree in related field preferred.
• Proven ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on involvement in complex accounting, reporting, and process matters.
• Strong ability to prioritize competing deadlines and lead teams through high-volume close, reporting, and audit cycles.
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with evolving priorities, system changes, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify risks, evaluate alternatives, and escalate matters appropriately.
• Ability to communicate complex accounting or process matters clearly to both accounting and non-accounting stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen and ability to understand how accounting activities impact financial reporting, operational decisions, and stakeholder needs.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build credibility with senior leaders, peers, managers, and cross-functional partners.
• Highly analytical in nature with a real eye for detail.
• Strong written and oral communication skills required.
• Structured and organized in their approach.
• Excellent financial and management reporting skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oracle EBS experience preferred.
• A/E/C industry or similar professional services experience preferred.
• Preference given to local candidates.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field.
• A minimum of 8 years relevant experience.
• Management experience.
• Understanding of global accounting concepts.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

What We Believe:

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment:

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our…