CPA Accounting Manager with Corporate Accounting Leadership

• Accounting Leadership: Accounting Manager with extensive experience leading corporate accounting teams, managing month-end close, strengthening internal controls, and delivering accurate financial reporting while driving continuous process improvement.
• Month-End Close & Financial Reporting: Led timely month-end close activities, reviewed general ledger activity, prepared financial statements and management reports, analyzed financial results, and ensured reporting accuracy in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Technical Accounting & Compliance: Managed technical accounting matters, maintained accounting policies, researched complex accounting issues, ensured GAAP compliance, supported SOX controls, and oversaw specialized accounting areas including lease accounting and complex corporate transactions.
• Audit & Internal Controls: Served as the primary liaison for external audits while coordinating audit support, strengthening internal controls, maintaining compliance, and improving accounting processes and reporting transparency.
• Team Leadership & Staff Development: Led, mentored, recruited, and developed accounting teams, including domestic and offshore staff, while improving team performance, establishing procedures, and supporting organizational growth.
• Corporate Accounting Operations: Managed a broad range of accounting responsibilities including consolidations, intercompany accounting, treasury activities, cash flow reporting, payroll-related accounting, acquisitions, business development accounting, and financial statement analysis.
• Process Improvement & Systems: Led accounting process improvements, automation initiatives, ERP implementations, and system enhancements that increased efficiency, strengthened controls, and improved reporting capabilities across the accounting organization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered effectively with finance, treasury, payroll, tax, operations, human resources, legal, internal audit, and external service providers to support business objectives and enhance accounting operations.
• Operational Accounting Management: Managed complex accounting functions across multiple business areas while developing policies, standardizing procedures, supporting organizational change, and improving operational effectiveness.
• Education & Certifications: Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with an Accounting emphasis, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.