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Robert Half VP – Financial Reporting & Accounting in Chicago, Illinois
Description
To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m
Feeling stuck or straight up bored at your current job? Let’s fix that. A high-End Investment firm is seeking a VP of Financial Reporting & Accounting. Perks include including above market pay-rates, top-tier health benefits, plenty of work from home flexibility, and other unique perks that their top competitors can’t to provide.
Your Team Responsibilities
This role provides leadership opportunity for the candidate to be responsible for managing aspects of the financial and management reporting, accounting, and analysis related to subscription revenues arising from specialty, standard and non-standard contracts with clients. This position will provide reporting and forecasting support to the Business, technical and operational accounting, as well as provide accounting guidance for revenue recognition and reporting matters pertaining to customer contract arrangements. The successful candidate will also lead or support special projects including M& A activity, transformation, process improvement initiatives, system implementations and developing processes to account for new revenue contracts. This will be a highly visible role and will have tremendous opportunity to work with a diverse set of finance and non-finance stakeholders, including exposure to accounting and finance executive leadership.
Your Key Responsibilities
Collaborate closely with key business partners, for example, Product Finance, Legal, Coverage, Run Rate, Tax, and Billing to deliver critical business initiatives and identify value opportunities
Present accounting recommendations to finance executive management
Champion in building and enhancing financial and management reporting and analysis
Drive insights and guidance to support revenue transactions for optimal economics on rapidly evolving and growing products offerings and launches
Develop and execute upon a transformative vision to drive business and process optimization through simplification of upstream processes, collaborating with cross-functional
Drive accountability by ensuring high quality technical and operational monitoring, analysis, and continuous improvement of enforcement and KPIs
Lead, influence, and mentor team members with responsibility of the accuracy and completeness of revenue recognition in accordance with US GAAP to achieve expected outcomes
Oversee aspects of revenue accounting and reporting, which includes execution of monthly revenue close, variance analysis, and reporting related to customer contracts, providing guidance on revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606
Drive transformation in the revenue accounting processes to improve clarity, efficiency, and scale for growth
Manage operations of internal controls, policies and procedures related to revenue recognition, monthly close and reporting processes
Other responsibilities include but are not limited to participate in special projects, system implementations, enhancements and ad hoc analysis
Requirements
Your Skills And Experience That Will Help You Excel
Minimum 6 years of experience and college or university degree in Accounting or Finance related field
Experience in managing teams with an emphasis in people management and team development
Certified Public Accountant or Chartered Accountant or equivalent is a plus and/or industry accounting experience with multi-national public companies which comply with U.S. GAAP or IFRS
Ability to identify complex and judgmental matters and discuss proposed solutions with pros and cons
Strong analytical capability to tell business stories leveraging financial data
Ability to articulate complex concepts in clear, simple, and logical terms
Enjoy collaboration and have desire to work effectively with diverse cultures in a global organization and team player who is willingness to undertake opportunities in order to support team members and improve overall effectiveness of the function
Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint and prior experience with large ERP systems, such as SAP, and PowerBI
To apply to this hybrid role, please send your resume to John Sadofsky at john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m
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