Our client is seeking a Manager - Corporate Accounting to join the Corporate Finance team based in Pittsburgh, PA. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, External Reporting and working closely with resources in Financial Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis and Global Financial Services (collectively Corporate Finance), this dynamic role offers a challenging and exciting opportunity to support the Company’s financial closing, consolidation, financial statement preparation, and joint venture reporting. This role will have considerable interactions with stakeholders including the Controller and Operations Controllers and their finance teams in our global locations.

In this manager role, you will be an individual contributor focused on leading critical processes and accounting matters across the global organization. The role requires the candidate to demonstrate their outstanding project management skills, technical accounting expertise, and organizational abilities in a collaborative and dynamic team. The position offers a high degree of learning opportunities both in terms of the business and technical accounting knowledge and interacts across multiple teams at all levels within the organization.

Major activities of this position include:

• Prepare and analyze monthly consolidated financial statements, including preparation of the quarter-end financial statements, research, and resolve issues and summarize findings.
• Coordinate with the Manager – Financial Systems in providing technical accounting support to all aspects of the closing process, including review of changes to the chart of accounts, review of closing journal entries and coordinate all technical accounting matters that arise during the closing process.
• Manage the cash flow consolidation and associated reporting during month end closing; prepare journal entries and reconciliations, research and resolve issues, and lead review process with Financial Accounting team.
• Prepare semiannual financial statements for the largest joint venture; participate in the annual audit and six-month review.
• Review monthly results of equity method investments and noncontrolling interest.
• Coordinate the process to properly record legal entity restructurings with key stakeholders, including Tax, Treasury, Operations and Financial accounting.
• Assist with periodic, quarterly and annual SEC filings including preparation of footnotes.

About You:

Our values – act with integrity, operate with excellence, care for people, lead with courage – are at the foundation of everything we do. To be successful in this role and to play a part in our ongoing success we desire the following background:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• CPA certification
• Proven experience in an accounting or finance role, and one of the following:
• Minimum 2 years of experience in public accounting
• Minimum 2 years of experience within an external reporting team of a publicly traded manufacturing company
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Hyperion, Essbase, HFM or Oracle ERP