Senior Director, North America – Consolidations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Lead the North America Record-to-Report (RTR) functions, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and BD accounting standards.

• Supervise the execution of regional closing processes, which includes general ledger management, reconciliations, journal entries, and problem resolution.

• Guarantee the timely and precise completion of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities.

• Provide active oversight of both insourced and outsourced GPO functions to ensure alignment with expectations.

• Deliver high-quality financial data and insights to support decision-making for regional leadership and the enterprise.

• Act as a key regional authority in ensuring compliance with statutory reporting (e.g., sales and use tax, escheatment filings), coordinating audits, and resolving issues.

• Direct enterprise consolidation processes, including intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translations, and consolidated reporting.

• Assist in the governance of the global close calendar, submission standards, and review protocols.

• Maintain the integrity and accuracy of the consolidated balance sheet and financial statements.

• Collaborate with regional and corporate teams to align U.S. GAAP with local GAAP reporting requirements.

• Spearhead efforts to standardize and enhance accounting processes across North America and consolidation activities.

• Identify and implement opportunities for automation and analytics within closing and reporting processes.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, focusing on root-cause analysis and process redesign.

• Support enterprise transformation initiatives, including system upgrades and evolution of operating models.

• Serve as a primary North American contact for Business and Corporate functions, facilitating timely and effective two-way communication to create a collaborative environment for accurate financial statement transactions.

• Work alongside the business to provide valuable insights into actual financial performance and advise on the implications of nonstandard business activities.

• Represent North America and consolidation priorities in global governance forums.

• Foster alignment among cross-functional stakeholders to ensure comprehensive finance coordination.

• Lead and cultivate a high-performing team of accounting professionals across North America and corporate consolidation units.

• Encourage a robust controllership culture that emphasizes accountability, integrity, and technical excellence.

• Contribute to talent strategy, succession planning, and capability development within the accounting sector.

• Navigate change effectively with strong communication, engagement, and talent retention strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required; a Master's degree is preferred.

• CPA or substantial technical accounting experience is mandatory.

• At least 12 years of relevant experience, including public accounting and leadership positions within a Controllership organization.

• Extensive knowledge of U.S. GAAP, consolidations, and global closing operations.

• Proven capability to lead large global teams and ensure consistency across decentralized environments.

• Demonstrated experience in change leadership and transformation initiatives.

• Ability to function effectively at both strategic and operational levels.

• Experience in managing shared services and/or BPO delivered accounting operations (service management, SLAs/KPIs, and escalation models) is advantageous.

• Strong executive presence, sound judgment, and exceptional communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Retirement plans

• Paid time off

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development

• Bonuses

• Equity