Director/Senior Director – Accounting Advisory

🕒 April 24

🏢🏡 Chicago – Hybrid

💵 $85k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Ankura

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-11

Enterprise • Consulting • Artificial Intelligence

Ankura is a leading global expert services and advisory firm, specializing in providing strategic advisory solutions across a multitude of industries. The company empowers clients by leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making, automate processes, and secure competitive advantages. Ankura is adept at handling crisis situations by offering strategic solutions that protect, create, and recover value for clients. The firm's multidisciplinary team collaborates to implement custom solutions that manage risk, compliance, and transformation challenges efficiently.

📋 Description

• Provide complex accounting and financial reporting support to clients in various industries. • Optimize Financial reporting processes, operations and service delivery model while driving improvements and managing overall cost of financial reporting. • Contribute to client annual external financial statement audits by proactively anticipating and resolving technical accounting concerns. • Ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial statements, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and, when applicable, SEC regulations. • Fill an interim or surge resource need specifically in a leadership or executive role, including positions such as Chief Accounting Officer, Controller, Financial Reporting Director; provide solutions to leverage human capital and experience when appropriate. • Perform and/or lead corporate financial reporting functions by overseeing the periodic financial close process, guiding team operations, and collaborating with key stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate of accredited 4-year college / university, ideally with a major or concentration in accounting. • CPA, or relevant other qualification, such as Chartered Accountant, or equivalent technical/ GAAP accounting expertise is required. • 6+ years of experience related to financial reporting, financial statement auditing, and/or technical accounting. • Proficient in periodic reporting processes, accurate and timely accounting trial balance conversion into financial statements, and financial statement analysis for anomalies. • Ability to identify and implement improved processes and internal controls around financial close, and related accounting processes that can impact financial reporting. • Experience leading strategies to drive financial reporting improvements goals. • A mix of Big Firm public accounting, firsthand client-side financial reporting, and client-facing accounting advisory consulting experience is preferred. • Financial Systems ERP (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday Financials) and general ledger experience is preferred. • Willingness and ability to travel extensively up to 80%, as and when necessary for client engagements. • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities