Hybrid Director – Americas Accounting

at Evident Scientific

• Job title: Director – Americas Accounting
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $147,000 - $220,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ERP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Director of Accounting overseeing financial operations for TNM North America. Collaborating with global teams and managing audit processes for compliance and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Canadian and USA accounting teams, perform monthly closing and North America consolidation, reporting to Corporate Wabtec for global consolidation within stipulated timelines.
• Support BPO teams in North America business, including executing business process transformation.
• Solid knowledge of US GAAP and financial reporting, act as a resource for the accounting teams, and be able to liaise with external auditors and manage the annual and statutory audit processes.
• Ensure that US GAAP standards and internal policies are appropriately applied.
• Ability to draft and implement accounting policies and accounting memorandum.
• Ensure and establish effective accounting controls, processes, and tools to support efficient accounting activities provide stakeholders analysis and reports.
• Support the treasury activities during the integration and day-to-day operations (communication to be issued, credit cards, signatories).
• Strengthen and administer effective infrastructure to diagnose issues and manage progress against objectives.
• Improve and oversee accounting processes, financial systems design and implementation, and business process efficiency tools.
• Analyze and explain results and variances; identify and communicate main drivers of fluctuations between comparative periods. Find source of issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems, including implementation or migration, and consolidation software is a big plus.
• Harmonization of processes in place across America's accounting teams (United States, Canada)
• Work closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis team regarding budgeting/forecasting to ensure efficient execution and submissions.
• Support potential M&A activities from accounting standpoint
• Collaborate to internal and external audit processes.
• Serve as lead and mentor to its direct reports and colleagues.
• Supervision of professional accounting employees.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Finance or Accounting; CPA is strongly preferred. MBA is a plus.
• 10+ years of financial accounting and controllership experience, including direct report supervision, preferably in an international corporate setting interfacing with multiple divisions and overseas entities.
• Big 4 CPA experience at managerial level is a big plus.
• Demonstrate forward-thinking, act with a change agent mindset to drive continuous improvement and with a sense of urgency to address short term issues and opportunities, but with a proactive approach for sustainable execution.
• Experience implementing / migrating ERPs, possess interest and work experience in collaborating with IT to drive software implementation.
• Experience and expertise in working with BPO teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with overlapping deadlines, deliverables, and staff utilization in a fast-paced, ever-changing, and evolving work environment, in collaboration with multiple finance and operations teams.
• Results oriented, with a sense of quality.
• Deep knowledge and experience building Excel models and Business Intelligence tools.
• Proven track record of leading teams as a business partner through teamwork, collaboration, and open communication.
• Skill to develop and motivate employees.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual presentation communication skills.
• International outlook, with ability to work across borders and cultures.

Benefits

• 16.5% bonus