Director/Manager Financial Reporting

at Robert Half in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description

Manager of Financial Reporting

Reporting to the Director, Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting. The role will be an essential member of the Controller’s team, providing financial reporting (internal and external), technical accounting, financial policy, process, and control expertise to the organization. The Controller’s group interacts closely with other members of the organization including accounting operations, Corporate FP& A, Finance, Corporate Reporting & Consolidations, Financial Shared Service, Investor Relations.

- Lead project management, preparation, and review of all external reporting with the SEC including 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K (Earnings Release). External reporting includes six key areas: financial statement preparation, press release creation, script preparation, supporting presentation, internal communication, and SEC compliance. Support the highest levels of consistency and cohesiveness in messaging across all areas. Statutory reporting includes compliance with local country financial and tax reporting requirements via project managing the planning, preparation, review, and approval/issuance.

- Utilize your experience to further evolve disclosures and communications and take the initiative to be informed on leading trends on best practices for external reporting. Benchmark these factors against other world class companies and interact with subject matter experts to provide insightful recommendations (e.g., disclosure effectiveness, SEC comment letter trends, strategic initiative communication, and emerging technologies). Evolve external reporting to better disclose and articulate (i.) the primary business strategies and their impact on results, and (ii.) improved transparency around the items we consider to be Non-GAAP or Adjusting items.

- In the area of Statutory reporting:

o Leading timely completion and compliance of international statutory reporting and audit requirements through monitoring of key dates (using a variety of project management and workflow tools (e.g., excel, SharePoint, and internal LEAD – Statutory repository browser).

o Reviewing global statutory filings and reconciliations to US GAAP to ensure consistency of disclosures between US SEC filings and local filings, as well as understanding any differences in reporting or accounting principles applied between US filings and local filings.

o Preparing dashboard reporting on Statutory audit and filing status for all international entities, escalating issues and remediating project plans.

- Participate and responsible for certain specialty accounting areas (e.g., stock-based compensation and earnings per share)

- Support various consolidation activities that connect into technical or external reporting areas consolidated financial statements, impacts of non-routine transaction (acquisitions, divestitures, impairments, etc.), legal entities transactions, among other activities.

- Maintain SOX and other required documentation to support the Company’s internal control environment and satisfy external audit requirements.

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