Accounting Manager

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Reporting to Director, Dublin Controllership , we are currently seeking an Accounting Manager to support our team’s strategy, growth and innovation. This position is based in Dublin.Specifically for this role, we are looking for someone to fill a vacancy in our Global process Owner (GPO) area which is part of the Controllership team. The vacancy is in the subject matter of Cash/FX/Interco/Derivatives. With our GPO model we look to drive enterprise wide value and alignment. Owning the responsibility for the global, end-to-end process including all aspects of compliance and technology. We are looking for someone who has strong technical accounting knowledge within these areas, excellent problem solving skills, is a strong communicator, thrives on process improvement, and enjoys working in a challenging, fast–paced environment to support our continued success.
Exceptional candidates will be critical thinkers with focus on implementing innovation, process improvements to streamline and scale Salesforce’s processes for growth while not compromising compliance!What You will Do:

• Drive to continuously improve the automation of accounting and reporting processes; rethink the status quo for continuous improvement and gaining efficiencies

• Propose and implement best practices that simplify, standardize and scale how we work; roll out global processes and systems globally, justify and document regional exceptions due to local requirements

• Provide technical accounting advisory to support US GAAP and local GAAP compliance.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to enable business operations; understand business fundamentals and assess impact of business proposals on financial controls, process and reporting

• Ensure SOX compliance; enforce and recommend improvements to company policies, internal controls, systems and processes; assist in documentation, testing and monitoring of internal controls

• Drive engagements with global / regional accounting and cross functionally

• Ad-hoc global or regional finance projects as necessary

• Manage escalations of outsourced service providers; provide feedback & trainings as needed to improve work quality & efficiencies

• Participate in various organisation / department wide initiatives that promote team culture

• Minimum of 10 years related accounting operations and Internal/External Audit experience with global company (preferably technology or related industry) with at least 3 years of people management experience. Big 4 experience a plus

• Bachelors, or equivalent, in Accounting or Finance or related finance field degree, ACA preferred

• Knowledge of IFRS or US GAAP and local GAAP in EMEA; SOX or other local compliance equivalent in the areas of Intercompany/FX/Derivatives and Cash.

• Experience with major ERP system required (e.g Oracle, SAP, Netsuite, Workday) preferred

• Knowledge of treasury management applications and In-House banking

• Statutory compliance

• Strong communication, collaboration and teamwork skills across all levels

• Proven critical thinking capability

• Process re-engineering involvement and / or process efficiency focus

• Strong analytical skills and experience using data analytics tools (e.g Tableau)

• Ability to identify and drive business accounting process improvement

• Work experience in managing outsourcing services would also be an advantage

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