Director, Financial Reporting - Americold Logistics, LLC.
Atlanta, GA 30301
About the Job
Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.
What you'll Do
- Responsible for overall aspects of internal and external reporting of a $1.5 billion global organization
- Ownership of the preparation, accuracy, completeness and timeliness of external financial statements, disclosures, reporting policies, procedures and internal controls
- Ensure compliance with all GAAP and SEC accounting and reporting requirements, as well as federal, state, local, and country specific reporting requirements
- Establish and maintain relationships with international reporting units and joint ventures
- Create, maintain and own a global consolidation process
- Conduct thorough reviews of individual international reporting units' results and reporting packages
- Analyze and research financial information pertaining to the international financial statements and provide executive level presentation of results
- Monitor, evaluate and influence progress toward departmental goals
- Research and draft technical memoranda to present a strategy on proposed or new accounting and SEC regulations that may impact the company
- Interact closely with the external auditors and internal and external legal counsel
- Lead and mentor the Financial Reporting team; recruit, hire, train, coach and retain staff and ensure compliance with employment laws
- Strategically partner with other departments, reporting units and countries to meet company objectives
Other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned
What Experience and Education You Need
- Bachelor's degree required, degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics/Business strongly preferred
- CPA required
- Minimum 5 years of related accounting experience required; to include Big 4 or Tier 2 public accounting firm experience strongly preferred
- Minimum 2 years of people leadership experience; track record of progressive professional growth
- Excellent knowledge of US GAAP and SEC rules and regulations is required
- Experience in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel
What Could Set You Apart
- Oracle and BW experience preferred
- REIT or Real Estate Reporting experience preferred
- Must possess a high degree of accuracy in work and excellent analytical skills
- Self-starter who relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
- Ability to perform well under pressure and in a high-volume and changing environment
- Demonstrates consistency, flexibility and commitment to meet deadlines (ability to accommodate to differences in time zone, while adhering to strict deadlines)
- Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, to direct and motivate team and others and maintain a persuasive and credible presentation style at all levels of the organization
- Effective ability to leverage team and drive results
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, including ability to resolve disputes and observe confidentiality
Physical Requirements
- Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions
- Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending
- Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work
- Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks
- May require travel by automobile and airplane for business
- May require visits to warehouse operations in temperatures at or below freezing
- May require carrying loads related to travel and the occasional lifting, carrying, positioning, and/or moving of objects weighing up to 20 pounds
- Requires the use of various electronic tools
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The Company makes reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.
What We Offer:
Our associates know the answer to the question What's in it for me? We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.
Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.