Manager, Financial Reporting

The Manager, Financial Reporting is responsible for coordinating the activities of the Financial Reporting Department to ensure accurate and timely reporting of the Company’s financial data for internal and support the Director of External Reporting for external reporting purposes. This job is also responsible for guiding, motivating, and evaluating employees to ensure they are performing to the best of their abilities.

This job is responsible for maintenance of quality control standards around the preparation of work papers and the review of such work products to support the consolidated monthly financial statement process.

• Manage the monthly closing process including all areas of managing quality control, accuracy, timing, ensuring all internal deadlines are met and reports prepared for executive management are accurate.
• Manage the preparation and distribution of all reports including income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flow, etc. to ensure timely and accurate preparation in accordance with management needs.
• Manage the Financial Reporting team including all aspects of team leadership, not limited to supervision, employee development, employee mentoring, quality control, review of all work products produced by the team, efficiently managing and scheduling the group to leverage capacity and specific competencies.
• Effective risk mitigation of key employees by managing cross training and redundancy in key tasks.
• Maintain the integrity of the financial reporting process by ensuring all controls over financial reporting are operating effectively.
• Manage tactical relationships and communications with the external auditors for the Controller group.
• Responsible for providing the single point of contact and distributing schedules and requests efficiently and effectively to the rest of the organization.
• Coordinate with other members of the controller team to analyze and review various inputs to the monthly close process to confirm quality, accuracy and necessary adjustments are recorded.
• Work directly with the Director of Accounting to prepare a monthly reporting packet for internal reporting.
• Proactively manage the monthly closing process within the financial reporting function and coordinate that process with other involved departments.
• Manage the documentation and review and recording of all recurring journal entries, static or otherwise.
• Complete various report requests from executive management to assist with the analysis of Company performance.
• Create, maintain and support the calculation of specific management estimates including the analyses of medical accruals, legal and environmental claims as claims well as associated incurred but not reported claims in these areas with various stakeholders.
• Review account analyses, financial statements and supporting work papers for accuracy and compliance with accounting policies prepared by the Financial Reporting team.
• Provide analytical review to confirm accuracy of reported result consistent with business outcomes that are expected.
• Provide business leaders with actionable information from comprehensive variance analysis.
• Coordinate with other members of the controller team to analyze and review various inputs to the monthly close process to confirm quality and accuracy of the process.
• Other duties may be assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent.

• A minimum of five years of experience in accounting, auditing, or financial reporting, and preferably some experience in all areas, required.
• Supervisory experience, required.
• Previous experience with an ERP system and Business Warehouse tools, preferred not required.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and applicable Financial Accounting Standards Board standards.
• Knowledge of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations for quarterly and annual filings.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to be thorough and pay attention to detail.
• Ability to perform analytical reviews of financial statements.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to oversee multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of people and lead them to deliver actionable data analysis.