Key Responsibilities

• Regional Financial Leadership: Oversee the month-end, quarterly, and annual close processes for North American Legal Entities, ensuring 100% compliance with IFRS and corporate guidelines.

• Audit Liaison & Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors; manage all quarterly and annual review activities to ensure efficient and transparent results.

• Strategic Oversight: Provide direction to the General Accounting team within the Shared Service Center to ensure high-quality, consistent reporting across the region.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a central point of contact for Finance stakeholders (Controlling, Order-to-Cash, Tax, and Treasury) to align closing activities and business strategy.

• Governance & Optimization: Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen internal controls and enhance financial efficiency.

• Special Projects: Lead finance-side integration for mergers, acquisitions, and system migrations (SAP).

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting (Required).

• Certification: CPA (Strongly Preferred).

• Experience: Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally with a background in Audit.

• Public Accounting: Big 4 experience is mandatory.

• Technical Proficiency: Deep knowledge of IFRS or US GAAP (Revenue, Leasing, Pensions, M&A). Advanced Excel skills; SAP experience is a plus.

• Executive Presence: Exceptional written and verbal skills with the ability to translate complex technical accounting issues for non-finance leadership.

• Location: Must be local to the Middletown, CT area and able to work in-office 3 days per week.