Friday, December 05, 2014
Accounting Director - Global Pricing & Revenue - Nike - Portland
Job description
With an aggressive long-term growth strategy, NIKE is counting on our Global Finance organization to thrive in its mission: to drive and deliver value to every NIKE shareholder. Our Controlling function is at the heart of this mission through maintaining strong internal controls, providing timely, accurate, and relevant information to internal and external stakeholders, and ultimately delivering expert business partnership to drive profitable growth.
To elevate our game, NIKE Controlling is in the midst of a multi-year transformation to design and implement our platform of the future. We are centralizing our function globally to drive a shared strategic agenda, along with evolving into a scalable, process-focused organization with a continuous improvement mindset. And we’re seeking world-class talent like you to contribute to this journey. We are looking for influencers and collaborators who can champion and embrace change as we evolve; talent with deep finance acumen to help build our blueprint for the future. Do you have what it takes to build a Controlling legacy at NIKE?
ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR, GLOBAL PRICING & REVENUE
Ensures key financial assertions are met with respect to revenue and related accounts through development/maintenance of a comprehensive control structure across the transaction stream/s from pricing through the marketplace negotiations; understands downstream processes ultimately resulting in the recording of revenue and related accounts
Owns and is accountable for the end to end process governance across controls & compliance of pricing, revenue and related accounts, including process and technical considerations around revenue recognition, inclusive of new revenue guidance implementation, in accordance with US GAAP and NIKE Accounting Policy
Owns/influences Global Accounting Policy and technical accounting decisions within revenue and related accounts and processes, in conjunction with other subject matter experts
Owns and engages with transition management team on adapting applicable process, policy and tool changes globally
Maintains and drives continuous LEAN improvement, while collaborating with others, on owned processes to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness; defines the best practices and drives execution of best practices
Accountable to ensure all financial statement assertions are met via process and control with respect to the Business Unit financial results; works with respective process/account owners and legal entity owners to understand the make-up of the financial results and conducts review Participate in review of monthly, quarterly and annual operational results with business leadership; continuously add value and be seen as a credible and trusted business partner; signs off on financial results using a representation letter
Advise to the management of NIKE's global pricing and marketplace management strategic initiatives; develop high profile, influential and collaborative relationships across teams, functions and layers of the business while demonstrating mastery of US GAAP
Work closely with and advise cross-functional leadership teams of technical accounting, process and control considerations as they execute on business strategies; partner with finance planning counterparts to inform forecast accuracy and informed business decisions from a technical accounting, control and process perspective
Desired Skills and Experience
• 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 commercial and business acumen
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working in regional environment with multiple countries and local requirements
• Demonstrated success with large scale process improvements and shared services capabilities
• Ability to work collaboratively with multinational cultures and countries
• Experience working on transformation initiatives
• Ability to work collaboratively with multinational cultures and countries
• Ability to influence and inform stakeholders on complex technical topics
• Experience with SAP
• Proven capabilities to build and develop a high performing team
• Ability to innovate and navigate through ambiguity
• Experience working in large public multinational companies
• Strong US GAAP experience and technical accounting knowledge
• Experience with local statutory reporting
• Ability to assess financial risks and controls across end to end business and operational processes
• Experience with identifying and applying complex accounting treatment to business contracts
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