Senior Accounting Manager

153819 | Contract

This highly motivated Senior Accounting Manager/CPA/MBA with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting has more than 20 years of experience in the accounting and finance function. Expertise includes managing financial services, corporate accounting, financial reporting, and planning and forecasting.

Additional qualifications include:

  • Enhanced internal controls, initiated continuous process improvements, and consistently met and exceeded goals for timely and accurate external reporting
  • Built and developed inclusive, productive teams
  • Managed month-end close and consolidations, external reporting (GAAP and regulatory), external audit support, and all aspects of the general ledger, including chart of accounts and internal controls
  • Oversaw global corporation’s monthly general ledger close of nineteen legal entities, reviewed journal entries and account reconciliations, and provided detailed variance analytics of the corporation’s balance sheet and income statement to prior month, budget and forecast
  • Prepared specific key footnotes for 10Q/K, as well as financial statements and trends in support of Earnings Release and SEC and Regulatory reporting
  • Reported on KPIs that supported planning and forecasting decisions
  • Reviewed U.S. GAAP audited financial statements and footnote disclosures for consolidated corporate holding company and subsidiaries
  • Monitored all FASB accounting pronouncements that impacted consolidated financial statements
  • Achieved 20% reduction in time for month-end close by restructuring processes and procedures
  • Reduced quarterly reporting turnaround time as much as 30% through cross-functional cooperation
  • Streamlined annual financial statements preparation process, decreased preparation time by 30%; completed audit process 2 weeks ahead of due date, saved time and expenses
  • Reduced reconciliation time 25% with development of spreadsheet macros to automate process
  • Integrated alignment of transfer pricing between different countries and the corporation and automated the reporting process, resulting in elimination of manual processes
  • Developed/produced reporting package for Merger & Acquisitions team to support sale of 3 U.S. regions and transitioned finance and accounting functions to global headquarters in Puerto Rico
  • Led general ledger conversion from PeopleSoft to SAP
  • Provided operational accounting and reporting support to the credit team for the upcoming adoption of FASB’s CECL standards (ASU 2016-13 as amended and ASU 2022-22) in 2023
  • Managed accounting/finance teams
Skills: Accruals, Balance Sheet, Cognos, Consolidations, Data Mining, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Fixed Assets, GAAP, General Ledger, Hyperion, Investments, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pricing, Process Improvement, Revenue, Sage, SAP, Strategic Planning
Skills: Accruals, Balance Sheet, Cognos, Consolidations, Data Mining, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Fixed Assets, GAAP, General Ledger, Hyperion, Investments, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Pricing, Process Improvement, Revenue, Sage, SAP, Strategic Planning