Accounting Manager Job at Robert Half in Chicago

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$140,000 and it comes with benefits, including medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance. To apply to this hybrid role please send your resume to john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m

Work from home options, generous vacation days every year, top tier benefits, competitive pay rates and VERY lucrative bonuses. If that sounds like something you want, keep reading.

Responsibilities

• Lead, review, and directly contribute to General Ledger maintenance through periodic close activities required for the preparation of accurate & timely financial statements and reporting.
• Collaborate across departments to implement process improvements necessary to streamline and scale operations, increase accuracy, and respond to changing needs.
• Provide monthly variance analysis to ensure management is apprised of unique transactions, trends (both positive and negative), and potential business drivers that may be impacting financial results.
• Coordinate with internal and external auditors to support year-end audits and interim testing.
• Document and review the organization's business and financial processes, proposing steps to implement effective controls.
• Assist with the technical accounting issues and support accounting questions by providing research and interpreting data.
• Leads, trains, develops, provides overall guidance to accounting staff; and effectively assigns accounting tasks or projects to team members.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA and/or MBA is a plus.
• 7+ years of comparable work experience.
• The successful candidate will have led an accounting organization of relevant size and complexity through a period of sustained growth.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate responsibility and authority to the lowest appropriate level yet be willing to participate directly and actively as required.
• First-hand experience in the corporate office of publicly traded companies with multinationals is strongly preferred.
• Strong operating accounting experience, ideally in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial company.
• Experience and confidence dealing with senior management.
• Experience developing and coaching teams to perform at new levels of achievement.
• ERP experience, preferably NetSuite, but equivalent is sufficient.

To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m