Director - General Accounting - Nike - Portland

Job description
Objective: Lead the General Accounting and Intercompany teams for Global Accounting
Key Accountabilities - The Director, General Accounting; will establish and lead a team responsible for:
Developing our Global general accounting operating model and related policies and procedures
Leading our general accounting team and intercompany team at world headquarters
Developing and globally coordinating our monthly, quarterly and annual financial close schedules
Partnering with finance and operations counterparts to drive effective operational reporting around general ledger account groups, management hierarchy's, legal entities and transaction types
Developing and executing our Global Intercompany Accounting operating model and leadership of associated teams

Developing and executing a global model to leverage our BPM partner for our high volume, non-judgmental record-to-report transactions
Responsible for determining our general ledger account structure and associated global policies around reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany transactions and consistent account usage
Continuously driving improvements in the efficiency of our global financial close cycle

Desired Skills and Experience
Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA required
• 10+ years' extensive experience in public accounting, corporate accounting, and transaction services/financial business process consulting; experience within a large multinational, publically-held company highly preferred
• 5+ years' proven people management experience
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, business processes and strategic planning is preferred
• Exposure to accounting and finance systems preferred (SAP or Oracle)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to effectively communicate status, issues, risks and opportunities with senior leadership team
• Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience, including meeting facilitation and presentations
• Strong ability to develop high profile, influential and collaborative relationships across teams, functions and layers, preferably inclusive of navigating a large corporation
• Proven experience with continuous improvement and/or LEAN-related concepts and change management
• Excellent understanding and application of managerial concepts and techniques in areas such as innovation, inspiration, employee development, coaching and engagement
• Experience with accounting for e-commerce or other front end customer-facing interaction technology a plus
• Ability to pass a 7 year background check

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