Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. a.k.a. Brands is a dynamic company focused on driving best practices and accelerating performance across its portfolio of brands. They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Accountant to oversee financial operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance in accounting practices while collaborating closely with the Finance & Accounting team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including consolidation in Planful, foreign currency remeasurement and translation, intercompany eliminations, and preparation of consolidated financial statements
- Extract, map, and reconcile trial balances between source ledgers (NetSuite) and the consolidation tool (Planful), and prepare and validate support for system uploads to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of source data
- Maintain detailed supporting schedules and workpapers for the consolidation and quarterly reporting package
- Manage intercompany transactions across the global entities, covering both short-term intercompany balances and long-term intercompany balances
- Perform quarterly three-way matching and netting of intercompany balances across entities, confirming that reciprocal intercompany payables and receivables agree and settling or offsetting balances as part of the intercompany netting process
- Monitor intercompany account balances on an ongoing basis and prepare intercompany reconciliations, ensuring general ledger and intercompany accounts are reconciled with documented resolution of reconciling items and proper elimination upon consolidation
- Manage foreign currency remeasurement and translation adjustments for global entities operating in multiple currencies, including recording and reviewing cumulative translation adjustments (CTA)
- Maintain foreign exchange (FX) rate tables and update them monthly to ensure accurate remeasurement, translation, and financial reporting
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, including the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement
- Own the preparation of the consolidated statement of cash flows on a monthly basis, including analysis of operating, investing, and financing activities and reconciliation to movements in the balance sheet and income statement
- Assist with the holding company balance sheet and income statement — review balances during month-end close, prepare balance sheet account reconciliations, and perform variance analysis
- Prepare debt covenant calculations and quarterly fluctuation analysis for lenders and management
- Serve as a key liaison for internal and external auditors, providing supporting schedules and documentation for assigned areas
- Maintain process documentation, ensure SOX compliance across functional areas of responsibility, and help develop and implement internal control procedures
- Identify and implement process improvements — including AI and automation — to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the consolidation process, ensuring best-in-class global close processes and effective internal controls documentation
- Contribute in the ongoing improvement of accounting systems and processes
- Support the annual budgeting and rolling forecast process, ensuring accurate data consolidation and scenario analysis
- Take on ad hoc financial analysis and special projects as requested by the Senior Accounting Manager, Consolidations, and AKA Brands leadership
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 4+ years of progressive public accounting and/or industry experience, or broad-based accounting experience in a high-growth environment
- Solid understanding of financial reporting and accounting systems
- Experience collaborating across a wide range of stakeholders, including internal staff, senior leadership, external partners, and tax and legal advisors
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple time-sensitive projects independently
- Proactive and communicative — comfortable engaging across all levels of the organization
- Experience working within non-US, global business environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Retail industry experience is a plus
- Working knowledge of Oracle NetSuite and Planful is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive market-based compensation and financial incentives.
- A full range of company-sponsored health and welfare benefits
- A sector leading 401(k) retirement program that matches 100% of your contributions up 5% of your pay
- Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
- Generous discounts across our direct-to-consumer brands.
- A time-off package that includes 35-days off per year
- Learning, development, and stretch opportunities to help grow your career.
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