General Accounting Manager ATS (Hybrid)

EnerSys - Bellingham, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Bellingham, WA

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

EnerSys is the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, with over thirty manufacturing and assembly plants worldwide. The General Accounting Manager plays a crucial role in overseeing the General Accounting Department for Alpha's US entities, ensuring that financial results comply with US GAAP. This position reports directly to the Global VP Finance ES and involves collaboration with various functional areas and the Corporate Accounting team to develop, maintain, and enforce accounting policies and procedures. The manager will lead a team responsible for all accounting functions, including the monthly close process, journal entries, account reconciliations, account analysis, and reporting. In this role, the General Accounting Manager will oversee the day-to-day General Accounting function, ensuring accuracy and compliance with corporate standards. They will lead the General Accounting Team in alignment with company and team goals, evaluating the activities of the staff and providing professional development opportunities. The manager will also be responsible for leading month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing procedures in HFM, ensuring timely completion and accurate reporting. This includes preparing financial statements in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and ensuring that underlying accounting records are supported by timely account reconciliations. Additionally, the General Accounting Manager will conduct financial analysis, interpret data, and provide recommendations for improvement. They will report and analyze results, ensuring that key operating drivers are understood, and communicate with various stakeholders to obtain and transmit necessary information for analysis, forecasts, journals, and reconciliations. The role also involves implementing process improvements, identifying inefficiencies, and proposing strategic solutions, as well as ensuring SOX compliance by maintaining adequate process documentation. The manager will coordinate the annual audit of the company and interface with internal and external auditors, while also leading or supporting special projects related to process improvement, standardization, documentation, integration, and automation across various transactions, departments, or entities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day General Accounting function, ensuring accuracy and compliance with corporate standards.
• Lead the General Accounting Team in accordance with the Company and team goals, overseeing and evaluating the activities of the General Accounting staff.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing procedures in HFM, ensuring timely completion and accurate reporting.
• Ensure that the financial statements are prepared accurately, timely, and on a consistent basis following U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Ensure that the underlying accounting records are supported by timely account reconciliations.
• Conduct financial analysis, interpreting data and providing recommendations for improvement.
• Report and analyze results involving in-depth analysis of actual results versus forecast/budgets, ensuring that key operating drivers are understood.
• Communicate, escalate, and coordinate with staff, plant accountants, segment leads, functional department heads, and third-party service providers to obtain and/or transmit information needed for analysis, forecast, journals, and reconciliations.
• Implement process improvements, identifying areas of inefficiencies and proposing strategic solutions.
• Identify control weaknesses and suggest process improvements to ensure effective controls are maintained over financial accounting and reporting.
• Ensure SOX compliance, maintaining adequate process documentation to satisfy internal control, quality, and user requirements.
• Create detailed process documentation, ensuring accounting implications of processes are clearly understood.
• Overall coordination and responsibility for the annual audit of the company, interfacing with internal and external audit.
• Lead or support team and/or Company-level special projects, which may range from process improvement, standardization, documentation, integration, and automation across one or several classes of transactions, departments, or entities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in an accounting role
• 3+ years of management experience
• Public Accounting and SOX experience required

Nice-to-haves

• CPA designation
• SAP experience preferred
• Hyperion (HFM) experience a plus
• Knowledge of Intercompany transactions and recharges a plus

Benefits

• Paid time off plus paid holidays
• Medical/dental/vision insurance plan
• Life insurance, short/long term disability
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flex spending
• Employee stock purchase plan
• 401K plan