Director - Global Consolidation - Nike - Portland

Job description
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:
• Bachelor’s 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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