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Corporate Accounting Manager
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
New York, NY, United States
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Endeavor is seeking a Corporate Accounting Manager, to be based in New York City, who will report to the VP, Global Corporate Controller. This is a manager level position and will be a key part of the accounting and controllership team that covers multiple businesses within the Endeavor organization.
About the Team
This role will be part of the corporate controllership function with specific responsibility for supporting various business units, located predominantly in the US but with offices all over the world. The controllership function supports Endeavor’s growth by ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, providing meaningful business support, and maintaining a strong and sustainable internal control environment. Our goal is to contribute to Endeavor at multiple levels by combining strong accounting and business sense, while subscribing to Endeavor’s mission and values. We have a strong team that is passionate, flexible, thoughtful, agile, inquisitive and hungry to take on challenges and make continuous improvements in an ever evolving environment.
About the Role
You will help achieve the strategic objectives of the function, drive process improvements, support local finance teams, and partner with the rest of finance to perform as a unified world class business partner to the rest of the organization. You’ll support the business unit finance teams with general accounting, managing the day-to-day work and providing guidance, direction and coaching. You’ll work closely with the other finance teams, including internal controls, tax and financial reporting, to deliver an accurate and timely monthly accounting close. In addition, you’ll assist in ensuring that the financial control environment is strong and sustainable, and supportive of our business growth.
• Support the Global Corporate Controller with core controllership tasks as well as special projects
• Develop key business processes for new businesses, including CRM selection and integration
• Provide support to business unit finance teams in relation to corporate policies, including SOX compliance and other process improvement initiatives
• Work with business unit finance teams to identify process improvement opportunities, including ways to leverage existing shared service centers
• Responsibility for managing and overseeing the BlackLine reconciliation tool across the entire organization
• Manage multiple projects i.e., accounting, operations, or administration, under time constraints
• Ensure correct application of Endeavor accounting policies in accordance with US GAAP, providing technical accounting support to business unit finance teams, including writing technical accounting memos
• Monthly review and analysis of business unit balance sheets including review of balance sheet reconciliations
• Preparation and review of quarterly business unit fluctuation analyses
• Preparation and review of monthly financial reporting packs
• Financial integration of new acquisitions including migration from local ERP to SAP
About You
We are looking for someone who shares our values, is passionate about building world-class processes and is flexible and agile in a rapidly changing environment. You should have experience and expertise in general accounting, technical accounting, internal controls and financial reporting gained in a combination of public accounting and industry experience. We value committed, detail-oriented and thoughtful individuals who bring operational excellence as well as a creative, mindful approach to their work.
You will have:
• Experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• 5+ years of experience in public accounting with additional industry experience strongly preferred
• Active CPA
• Strong technical accounting skills, particularly revenue recognition, purchase accounting and VIE analysis
• Excellent organizational, prioritization and process improvement skills
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and issue identification
• Operational/GL accounting experience and external reporting and compliance experience
• Ability to oversee individual business unit finance teams and to collaborate with cross-functional peers and teams
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion
• Excellent Excel skills including advanced functionality (e.g. VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables etc)
• Excellent written skills for memos and organization-wide email communications
• Experience with SAP/BPC a plus
Endeavor is subject to certain governmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements. In order to comply with those requirements, we invite you to voluntarily self-identify your gender and race/ethnicity. Submission of this form is voluntary, and refusal to provide it will not affect your opportunity for employment, or terms or conditions of employment. The information you provide will be kept confidential and may only be used in accordance with applicable law. The form will be kept separate from your employment application, and from your personnel records, if you are hired.