at Stericycle, Inc. in DeerfieldBannockburn, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Us:
Stericycle is a U.S. based business-to-business services company and leading provider of compliance-based solutions that protects people and brands, promotes health and well-being, and safeguards the environment. Since our founding over 30 years ago, we have grown from a small start-up in medical waste management into a leader across a range of increasingly complex and highly regulated arenas, serving healthcare organizations and commercial businesses of every size. Every day, we help our customers solve complex challenges by safely managing materials that could otherwise spread disease, contaminate the environment, or compromise one's identity.
Join us on our mission to protect health and well-being in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.
This is hybrid position, the candidate will report into the Bannockburn office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays.
Position Purpose:
Reporting to the Director, Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting at Stericycle, the role is considered a highly visible role within Stericycle. 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, Tax, Legal and external auditors to ensure accurate financial reporting/disclosures and full compliance with all external standards.
Key Job Activities:
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:
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).
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.
Preparing dashboard reporting on Statutory audit and filing status for all international entities, escalating issues and remediating project plans.
Support the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure process for external reporting and work on the evolution of the reporting framework and metrics with the ESG group.
Participate and responsible for certain specialty accounting areas (e.g., stock-based compensation and earnings per share)
Operate cross functionally within the controllership to leverage external reporting responsibilities with consolidations, technical accounting and internal controls that enables the controllership to provide best in class accounting and reporting services to business unit and executive management and broader finance/accounting teams.
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... For full info follow application link.
It is the policy of Stericycle, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, to hire the best qualified people available without regard to race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, religion, status with regard to public assistance, order of protection status, disability, or veteran status.
