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Accounting Manager
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Boston, MA, United States
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Accounting Manager
Fancy joining a global organization that is revolutionizing the digital landscape? Today, as clients across industries are moving from digitally extending their businesses to placing digital at the core, Publicis.Sapient has an unprecedented opportunity to help them succeed.
What are we looking for in you?
The Accounting Manager will assist in planning, coordinating and supervising the monthly close process for Publicis.Sapient North America. This role will work with the Publicis Shared Service (SSC) teams to ensure all internal and external statutory and compliance requirements are fulfilled on time and to a high quality. The individual will possess strong accounting and compliance experience as well as being able to manage change in a fast paced environment.
Key Areas of Responsibilities
• Participate in the monthly close and help to ensure all balance sheet accounts are reconciled, substantiated and corrective action taken timely.
• Ensure accounting policy, procedures and controls are followed.
• Ensure compliance with Publicis Financial Management Controls in conjunction with the FMC Lead.
• Work closely with Publicis.Sapient controllership team to produce accurate and timely financial information for multiple reporting units and legal entities.
• Foster a culture of continual process improvement and high quality, relevant reporting.
• Work with the reporting teams to ensure they are aware of any material accounting issues and changes that may impact Commit and Reforecasts.
• Variance analysis of actual results ensuring accounting is accurate.
• Support and champion the established Publicis.Sapient Finance platform.
• Assist with ad hoc projects, such as integration support, accounting matters and supporting other entities, as needed.
• Develop and provide direction to direct reports.
Experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead, manage an accounting team and drive continuous process improvement.
• Experience at a complex and/or international company.
• Performed consolidation and foreign currency related responsibilities.
• Committed, detail oriented, self-starter with strong problem solving and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently.
• Ability to analyze large amounts of data, determines root causes of problems, recommend actions, and drive the implementation of those actions independently.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly and accurately convey financial information to internal teams.
• Strong technical accounting skills and experience of with independent auditors.
• Hyperion Financial Manager or Oracle experience preferred. Strong Excel skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work in time sensitive environments.
• System implementation/conversion experience a plus.
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree, with emphasis in accounting.
• A minimum of 7+ years progressive accounting experience within the corporate accounting department of a large organization.
About Publicis.Sapient
You’ll never hear the term 'employee’ at Publicis.Sapient. Rather, you’ll see we talk about talented and valued individuals – people with interesting and provocative ideas, bold and diverse perspectives, a keen awareness of today and an unflinching curiosity about next. Our culture is all about the thriving of the 16,000 of us in 60+ offices around the globe, while we boldly help impact the success of our clients in a modern world.