We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Accounting Manager to lead the full-cycle month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process in a complex, multi-entity environment. This role will be responsible for overseeing a team of accountants, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting, reviewing accounting transactions and account reconciliations, and providing technical accounting guidance on complex transactions.
The ideal candidate combines strong leadership skills with deep accounting expertise and has demonstrated experience managing close processes, reviewing financial statements, maintaining internal controls, and partnering with business leaders to support sound financial decision-making.
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week onsite in our Charlotte area office.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting across multiple legal entities.
- Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of accountants, establishing accountability, reviewing work product, and supporting professional growth.
- Review and approve journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and other month-end close activities to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and company policies.
- Prepare and perform detailed reviews of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and supporting schedules.
- Manage accounting and reporting for a complex multi-entity structure, including consolidations, intercompany transactions, eliminations, and ownership structures.
- Perform comprehensive balance sheet and income statement reviews, analyzing trends, variances, unusual transactions, and potential accounting issues.
- Research and document technical accounting matters, including revenue recognition, lease accounting, debt transactions, equity transactions, business combinations, and other complex accounting topics as applicable.
- Develop, implement, and maintain strong internal controls and accounting policies to ensure financial statement accuracy and audit readiness.
- Serve as a primary liaison with external auditors, supporting annual audits, quarterly reviews, and requests for financial information.
- Collaborate with FP&A, Operations, Procurement, Treasury, Tax, and executive leadership to ensure accounting impacts and business activities are appropriately reflected in the financial statements.
- Support lender, investor, and management reporting requirements, including covenant reporting and ad hoc financial analyses.
- Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, and efficiencies within NetSuite and related financial systems.
- Utilize NetSuite to oversee close activities, reporting, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.
- Develop and maintain advanced Excel-based analyses, reconciliations, and reporting tools.
- Support special projects, acquisitions, integrations, and system implementations as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including experience in a multi-entity and complex organizational structure.
- 3+ years of direct people management experience leading and developing accounting staff.
- Demonstrated experience owning and managing the full-cycle month-end close process.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, financial statement preparation, and accounting internal controls.
- Experience preparing and reviewing consolidated financial statements and intercompany accounting.
- Proven ability to perform detailed financial statement reviews and identify accounting, reporting, and operational risks.
- Experience researching, documenting, and applying technical accounting guidance.
- NetSuite experience within the last year (required).
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, financial models, and data analysis.
- Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience presenting financial results and accounting issues to management, auditors, lenders, and external stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA certification strongly preferred.
- Public accounting experience, preferably with Big 4 or large regional firms.
- Experience in construction, renewable energy, project-based, or infrastructure-related industries.
- Experience with debt compliance, lender reporting, and investor reporting.
- Advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.