Corporate Accounting Supv - Atlanta, United States - DS Smith

Description

DS Smith is a global leading packaging company of customer-specific packaging with emphasis on state-of-the art packaging design and local service close to customer facilities. With a product portfolio that includes transit packaging, consumer packaging, displays and promotional packaging, customised protective packaging and industrial packaging, DS Smith answers to each market requirement.

Role Overview:

The successful candidate will act as the central point of contact for assigned field locations including all month-end accounting activities. They will lead the month-end close and support operations personnel for financial close, operational and financial reporting for assigned field locations. Located in Atlanta, Ga., he or she will partner with stakeholders across the company including field finance leaders, DSS Corporate Accounting and DSS Finance Systems teams. They will establish business procedures and standards around the Company's monthly accounting cycle and the financial close. This role will drive opportunities to streamline our monthly accounting processes and standards by assisting with the implementation of a shared services approach for processes utilizing the leading practice and SAP S/4 HANA Cloud based application.

The ideal candidate should have strong people and customer service skills, a track record of process improvement, exceptional accounting experience, and excellent teamwork skills along with an ability to work in an ever-changing environment.

Areas of Responsibility: Execute and support the workflow for all assigned accounting processes that streamlines and improves the financial close:

• Oversee the accounting for local field operations
• Assist with migration of remaining accounting responsibilities into Share Service Center
• Approve and/or process journal entries within SAP including classification of GL expense accounts
• Approve assigned monthly entries for all business units
• Perform review and approval of assigned general ledger account reconciliations and ensure sufficient support
• Prepare all operational and ad-hoc reporting including analysis requests
• Maintain all inter-company and intra-company accounts and ensure all accounts are reconciled
• Ensure all cash journal entries are prepared and bank statements are reconciled to G/L account balances
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and IFRS
• Implement and maintain adequate internal controls
• Cultivate strong working relationships with Finance and field personnel
• Lead a team of 3-4 accountants
• Develop talent, manage performance and morale/engagement of the team
• Other projects and assignments as necessary

Education & Certifications

A four-year bachelor's degree in Accounting, or Finance

CPA Preferred

3 years public accounting experience or 5+ years industry experience

Qualification & Experience

5+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH INCREASING RESPONSIBILITY

SAP SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE STRONGLY PREFERRED

SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE PREFERRED

MANUFACTURING BACKGROUND PREFERRED

MOTIVATED INDIVIDUAL WHO WORKS WELL WITH OTHERS AND THINKS CLEARLY UNDER PRESSURE

EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY TO PROBLEM-SOLVE INDIVIDUALLY OR IN A GROUP SETTING

ABILITY TO SHIFT PRIORITIES QUICKLY, WHILE MAINTAINING ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL

PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

ACCOUNTING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

PACKAGING & PAPER EXPERIENCE A PLUS

MICROSOFT EXCEL AND POWERPOINT SKILLS

EXCELLENT VERBAL, WRITTEN, AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

A PROVEN TEAM PLAYER