Corporate Accounting Manager/Team Leader
• Obtain and maintain a thorough
understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger
administration.
• Ensure an accurate and timely monthly,
quarterly and year end corporate close.
• Ensure the timely reporting of all monthly
financial information.
• Supervise the daily corporate accounting
activities.
• Ensure the monthly and quarterly corporate
financial compliance activities are performed in a timely and accurate
manner.
• Collaborates with the other finance
department managers to support overall department goals and objectives.
• Monitors and analyzes department work to
develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high
level of accuracy.
• Advises staff regarding the handling of
non-routine transactions.
• Responds to inquiries from firm wide
managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests and the
like.
• Work with the Financial Accounting VP to
ensure a clean and timely year-end audit of the assigned activities.
• Supervise the general ledger administration
and corporate activities group to ensure all financial reporting deadlines with
the highest quality standards.
• Assist in development and implementation of
new procedures and features to enhance the workflow of the department.
• Provide training to new and existing staff
as needed.
• Handle personnel issues relating to staff
conflicts, absenteeism, performance issues, etc.
• Work with each direct report to establish
goals and objectives for each year and monitor and advise on the progress to
enhance the professional development of staff.
• Support VP with special projects and
workflow process improvements.
Knowledge / Skills
& Metrics
• Knowledge of accounting principles,
practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of computerized accounting
systems and applications to include main frame terminals/ personal computers,
general software applications and keyboard facility. (Oracle knowledge a must).
• Skill in performing detailed and complex
numerical computations and reports.
• Skill in both verbal and written
communication.
• Process and IT oriented.
• Calendar compliance with financial close
and reporting deadlines.
• Out-of-period or post-closing manual
entries to the general ledger or reporting packages
• Daily accounting scorecards