Accounting Manager

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

* Manages financial and accounting staff within the department.
* Staffs the department, assigns work, reviews performance and addresses performance issues.
* Provides leadership, coaching, and development.
* Promotes and maintains a productive work environment.
* Develops policies, procedures and business controls to provide work direction.
* Ensure coherence within the organization as far as compensation policies are concerned.
* Manages the audit, compliance and external reporting processes.
* Acts as a liaison to federal, state, insurance, banking and other external auditors.
* Develops and implements business controls and procedures to minimize or comply with audit recommendations, and is responsible for finance the results.
* Provides information to consultants responsible for external financial reporting.
* Provides guidance to management on accounting policies and procedures.
* Ensures compliance with corporate policies and objectives.
* Ensures that non finance functions are behaving within mentioned policies.
* Drives the escalation path cross Functions and Sites.
* Manages special projects, with special regards to cross functional and sites.

* Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
* Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees
* Ability to use some or all of the following PC applications: Word, Lotus Notes, Excel, PowerPoint.
* Excellent negotiation and problem resolution skills.
* Ability to recommend accounting process changes based on intimate knowledge of accounting processes, policies and procedures. Ability to direct others on accounting practices.
* Ability to recommends creative accounting solutions that are in accordance with GAAP of relevant country and U.S. GAAP.
* Ability to manage large scale budgeting/forecasting process.
* Ability to analyze and summarize key highlights and makes recommendations to management for plan/forecast savings.
* Perform financial sensitivity analysis against all key factors (pricing, operating and costing) and provide management with recommendations/solutions.
* Makes recommendations based on interpretation of results.
* Understands MRP configurations/processes.
* Creates basic spreadsheet macros.
* Ability to design custom queries in job-related software.
* Understanding of the relationships between the various tools.
* Understands how to use the political structure in the organization and how to get things done using that structure.
* Ability to apply mathematical, statistical and financial operations to complete tasks and solve complex problems.
* Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of internal and external customers and other functions.
* Ability to prioritize tasks and complete duties while working with a large volume of detailed information under tight time deadlines.
* For non English mother language: Ability to attend and run discussions in English
* Ability to manage basic project management techniques