Paul Murphy Associates Looking for Chief Accounting Officer at Redwood City, CA Full Time

Title: Chief Accounting Officer

Location: United States (Remote) 

Full time

Salary: Strong

Our client is looking for a Chief Accounting Officer to lead their accounting team and help the company scale for the future, in a fast-paced environment that’s growing rapidly. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity of accounting, financial operations, and financial reporting by providing outstanding leadership, critical thinking with an ability to extend beyond just the world of accounting, and with a proven ability to recruit, build and manage a world class organization.

You Will:

·        Serve as a strategic financial business partner to the CEO, CFO and Executive Management team to help make sound business decisions.

·        Instill a performance culture resulting in meaningful cross functional business process transformation and automation to increase efficiency and effectiveness, as well as meeting the needs of a high growth business in multiple locations.

·        Lead all areas of accounting, both technical and transactional including financial reporting, technical accounting, technical revenue, consolidations, international accounting, operational accounting, revenue close and operations, internal controls and Sarbanes Oxley compliance and financial systems.

·        Assess regularly the need to thoughtfully scale the end-to-end business processes, the systems and financial controls in support of the future growth of the Company.

·        Lead a high-performance, high-potential, and diverse accounting team, serving as a strong positive leader, mentor and advisor who is willing to roll up his/her sleeves to work alongside the team and sharing process and technical expertise to continually evolve the organization’s capabilities.

·        Collaborate across the company to improve controls, enhance processes and advance company performance. Establish, monitor and maintain internal controls over financial reporting

·        Responsible for Audit Committee interactions and approvals as they carry out their fiduciary duties

·        Serve as primary contact with external auditors to ensure effective execution of audit, internal controls and financial reporting activities

·        Be responsible for the development and implementation of accounting policies, adapting to the changes in the business as well as changes to U.S. GAAP.

You Have:

·        Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA a must, MBA a plus).

·        Strong attention to detail, systems development and organizational management.

·        Committed to continuous learning and improvement (self and team).

·        Prior Big 4, 8+ years public accounting / audit experience.

·        Strong leadership track record with a willingness to dig into details.

·        Degree with an emphasis in Accounting or Finance and a CPA, MBA a plus.

·        15+ years of experience leading a global accounting function, dealing with complex accounting matters in a public company environment.

·        Industry experience in CPG and retail, along with a manufacturing environment.

·        Strong expertise with accounting policy, GAAP accounting and FASB pronouncements.

·        IPO experience preferred.