(CW) Accounting Manager -Intercompany& Transfer Pricing.

Accountabilities

• Manage Intercompany Accounting: Execute end-to-end intercompany activities, including billing, journal entries, accounts receivable and accounts payable matching, reconciliations, settlements, and balance clearing.

• Support Financial Close: Contribute to monthly and quarterly close processes by investigating discrepancies, identifying root causes, resolving outstanding balances, and coordinating timely corrections.

• Execute Transfer Pricing Activities: Process cost allocations, intercompany service charges, royalties, and periodic true-ups, validating results against accounting records and approved methodologies.

• Support SAP PaPM Operations: Execute and validate SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) processes, reconcile outputs, prepare reports, and resolve calculation, posting, or system issues with technical teams.

• Maintain Operational Continuity: Manage interim manual workarounds while system stabilization and automation initiatives progress, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and appropriate controls.

• Contribute to Process Centralization: Support the transition of intercompany activities into a centralized operating model, including billing, reconciliations, settlements, and operational handoffs.

• Improve Processes and Controls: Simplify workflows, reduce repetitive manual activities, strengthen financial controls, and maintain accurate standard operating procedures and supporting documentation.

• Support Business Integration: Assist with integrating acquired entities into intercompany accounting and transfer pricing processes, including transaction-flow validation, master data requirements, accounting setup, and reconciliations.

• Test Systems and Solutions: Participate in SAP process testing, validate interim solutions, document issues, and coordinate resolution with Finance, Tax, Accounting, and technology support teams.

• Support Consolidation and Reporting: Assist with intercompany eliminations, resolve consolidation and reporting discrepancies, and provide accurate information required for global financial close activities.

• Coordinate Cross-Functional Activities: Work closely with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Order-to-Cash, regional Finance, and IT teams to resolve operational issues and maintain effective processes.

• Deliver Reliable Operational Outcomes: Take ownership of assigned deliverables, prioritize material risks, recommend practical solutions, and transition new or integrated activities into stable recurring operations.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) qualification is preferred but not required.

• Professional Experience: Five to eight years of relevant accounting or finance experience, including intercompany accounting, reconciliations, and month-end close activities.

• Intercompany Accounting Expertise: Strong understanding of intercompany transactions, billing, journal entries, balance matching, settlements, reconciliations, and financial close procedures.

• Transfer Pricing Knowledge: Experience with transfer pricing accounting and operational execution is preferred, particularly involving cost allocations, intercompany charges, royalties, and periodic adjustments.

• SAP Experience: Strong preference for SAP S/4HANA experience. Familiarity with SAP PaPM is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Process Improvement: Experience contributing to process optimization, system implementations, operational stabilization, or business integration projects.

• Technical and Analytical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel, strong reconciliation capabilities, analytical thinking, and the ability to investigate and resolve complex accounting discrepancies.

• Operational Ownership: Ability to independently manage assigned responsibilities, deliver accurate results, and become productive quickly with limited training.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience coordinating with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Order-to-Cash, IT, and other operational stakeholders.

• Risk-Based Judgment: Ability to balance accounting accuracy, internal controls, efficiency, and business priorities when making operational decisions.

• Problem-Solving and Adaptability: Confidence working through evolving processes, temporary manual solutions, system issues, and competing priorities while maintaining reliable financial operations.

• Communication and Documentation: Ability to document procedures clearly, communicate issues effectively, and coordinate solutions across technical and nontechnical teams.

• Change and Integration Support: Ability to contribute to operational transitions, process testing, knowledge transfer, and the implementation of sustainable accounting practices.

Benefits:

• Remote Work: Fully remote contract opportunity within the United States.

• Initial Contract Duration: Six-month contract, with the possibility of extension depending on workload and business needs.

• Hands-On Responsibility: Opportunity to take ownership of important intercompany accounting and transfer pricing deliverables.

• Systems and Process Improvement: Exposure to SAP S/4HANA, SAP PaPM, process stabilization, and automation initiatives.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Opportunity to work with global Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and technology teams.

• Business Integration Experience: Involvement in process centralization and the integration of acquired entities into established financial operations.

• Professional Development: Opportunity to deepen expertise in intercompany accounting, transfer pricing operations, financial controls, and enterprise systems.