Manager of G / L Consolidations

Job Title

Manager, Shared Services General Accounting and Close Process

External Job Description

Monthly General Ledger Close and Accounting Reconciliation Shared Service Organizational Leader.

Responsible for legal entity reporting to our consolidation tool and oversight of general accounting. Coordinate with other functional finance teams such as Tax and Treasury. Provide and evolve shared services to Business Support Finance teams.

    * Completion of Monthly Closing Checklist

    * General Ledger Maintenance and Account Reconciliations

    * Subsidiary Ledger to General Ledger Reconciliations

    * Completion of Control Log / Reconciliation Log

    * Confirm / Verify Reconciliation of Reporting Feeds – Including Ledger Mappings

    * Intercompany Reconciliation Process

    * SAP / HFM to Tax Stream

    * Debt and Cash Reconciliation with Treasury Team

    * Legal Entity Reviews – Overall Review of Legal Entity Results – Macro Level

          o Immediate review of results an resolution of issues that may surface

          o Surfacing of issues for prioritization and resolution –  Policy and Procedures, HFM

          o Support from Commercial, Industrial, Depot and Product Development / Engineering

          o Maintain Issues Log

          o Maintain Control Deficiencies and Gap Log

          o Issue Quarterly Management Representation Letter

          o Complete Quarterly Policy Checklist

    * Oversight of Corporate Support – Actual, Plan, Update

          o Support all Corporate Functions & Corporate Officers with monthly reporting and annual budgeting

          o Ensure Accurate Planning and Reporting of Corporate expenses

          o Assist with monthly LBE’s

          o Other ad hoc inquiries as requested

    * Highly structured individual

          o Monthly calendar

          o Workplans

          o Execution and monitoring of tasks

          o Able to interact with and understand the business

          o Continuous improvement, lean accounting, Six Sigma and process improvement skills sets and experiences are required.



Skills/Experience Education/Certification

    * Bachelors degree in Accounting required

    * CPA Required

    * MBA Preferred

    * 10+ years experience

    * Familiarity with managing outsourcing/off-shoring relationships

    * Assist with identifying and planning process improvements

    * Experience with continuous improvement, lean accounting and Six Sigma process improvement methodologies

    * Greenbelt certification preferred

    * Agent for change – willing to challenge the status quo and drive continuous process improvements

          o Willingness to assertively challenge those not willing to drive change in the organization

          o Work to aggressively pursue process improvement opportunities