Jobleads-US is hiring: Head of Finance & Accounting in Seattle
Jobleads-US, Seattle, WA, United States
Magnolia Medical Technologies has a unique opportunity for a Head of Finance & Accounting to join our talented team at the Seattle Corporate office. The Head of Finance & Accounting will partner closely with our CFO to work directly with leadership across the organization on KPIs in support of the current strategic plan and advise with analysis and insights to achieve success. This role will lead the long-term financial planning process and annual operating plan and drive the financial aspect of mission-critical initiatives across the business while overseeing accounting and GAP.
Position Summary
The Head of Finance & Accounting will play a key role with the department leadership together with the CFO, having responsibility for day-to-day oversight of the functions including the management and development of the annual operating plan, the quarterly forecasting, monthly business reviews and accounting/GAP. Working collaboratively with department leaders and managers, the incumbent provides ongoing financial and analytic support and is the SME for operations, supply chain and manufacturing financial activity internally and with our CMs. Leveraging our ERP, will continue to manage all aspects of financial analytics, reporting and system design/optimization (including areas of revenue, margins, department-level budgeting & reconciliation, cash flow analysis, etc.).
In this role, the Head of F&A will provide leadership to our Controller and the accounting team, participate in decision making, considering and communicating variance, implications in terms of legal, tax, human capital processes, and change management all the while able to work strategically as well as engage in the details.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Development of strategic plans and detailed budget needs (personnel/capital/specific initiatives/other) at both the individual department and top-line corporate level.
- Manage, monitor and evaluate project spend and cash management with department heads, with timely and accurate variance reporting.
- Consolidation of all monthly, quarterly, and annual results vs. plan and/or most recent forecast.
- Accurate development and reporting of synthesized key performance indicators (KPIs) with analysis that allow CFO and Sr Leaders review of key factors that provide insight to identify risks, opportunities and gaps to forecast and plan.
- Oversee the functioning and supervision of the accounting team.
- Identify and recommend action plans to navigate findings that mitigate risk and/or maximize on opportunities.
- Drive innovation and standardization in continuous streamlining of the forecast, planning and reporting processes; identifying best practice and efficiency of routing tasks and reporting.
- Alignment with Revenue Operations as needed to analyze revenue and assist with evolution of efficient and effective reporting and dashboards to enable predictive forecasting and results analysis.
- Working collaboratively with leadership, develop and implement capital efficiency-based metrics to help quantify ROIs on operating expense investments to drive growth.
- Partner with IT and systems administrators to enable effective tools for management to obtain financial insights on a timely basis.
- Provides team leadership to develop and implement key controls around our financial statements and forecasting.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting with a working knowledge of accounting and strong foundational experience in financial planning and analysis.
- At least 10 years’ experience working in a corporate finance organization. Medical device manufacturing experience a plus.
- Demonstrated financial modeling and presentation skills.
- Working experience within Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics. General knowledge and passion to work with enterprise systems a must.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including active listening.
- Enjoys building relationships with team members at all levels within the organization.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing situations and needs, operating effectively in ambiguity.
- Ability to manage time and resources effectively and productively, prioritize workload, and meet deadlines.
- Given access to sensitive information, strict adherence to confidentiality and discretion.