Senior Manager, Accounting - Metal Solutions

The Senior Manager of Accounting will work closely with accounting and finance leadership within Metal Solutions, further collaborating with leadership teams within plant operations and other cross-functional personnel.  This role will have direct oversight over teams spanning multiple ERPs and locations and will be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of accounting are compliant with company policies and regulations.  In addition, this role will help enhance the current internal control environment, develop process efficiencies to improve time timeliness of the month end close, and partner with the Controller to complete internal reporting requests to both internal Metal Solutions teams and our corporate accounting team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight and guidance related to the management the financial close process.  This includes the transactional accounting, consolidation, review and periodic reporting of financial results for the business.
• Cascade technical guidance to ensure consistent application of financial (US GAAP) and accounting principles.  This includes assessing the impact of new accounting standards or changes to accounting policy to ensure timely and effective implementation.
• Oversee cost center accounting and reporting.
• Responsible for the design, system oversight, controls, and implementation for applicable accounting processes.
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring completeness and accuracy across all entities.
• Implement processes to ensure the accuracy and valid business purpose of transactions.
• Ensure processes and controls are efficient and effective; partner with various functions to ensure the efficient and effective performance of processes and controls that impact accounting transactions.
• Develop and manage financial controls in accordance with company’s procedures and policies; Work closely with stakeholders to maintain and implement internal controls to safeguard the company’s inventory.
• Ensure internal control documentation (maintenance of process narratives, control matrices and flowcharts) is complete and accurate.
• Ensures timely remediation and follow-up on identified control deficiencies.
• Ensure there is a sufficient review of financial statements (flux analysis) to identify and resolve potential material errors, omissions, or misstatements; this review, including relevant commentary, must be documented and submitted monthly.
• Ensure the timely and accurate reporting of consolidated financial results.
• Partner with Plant Controllership team to ensure emerging trends, significant variances or other material transactions are properly analyzed and communicated.
• Ensure there is clear and timely communication of emerging issues, significant business transactions and operational trends that have accounting implications to Operational and Commercial leadership, Operational and Commercial Finance Corporate Leadership.
• Perform periodic reviews of Balance Sheet reconciliations to gain assurance balance sheet accounts are accurate and reconciling items are resolved in a timely manner.