Vice President, Accounting
Measurabl, United States

Overview:

The Vice President, Accounting plays a dynamic role that involves driving the strategic and tactical finance and accounting needs of the organization. This role oversees the core accounting, financial reporting and tax functions of the organization, ensuring accurate reporting of financial results both internally and externally. The Vice President, Accounting also provides thought leadership and support throughout the broader organization and is responsible for the planning and direction of all accounting and finance functions. The additional focus of this role is to lead the preparation and design of the accounting organization as the company prepares for its planned future IPO.

Essential Functions amp; Responsibilities:

The essential functions and responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following. Other duties may be assigned as needed.

People Leadership

• Provide oversight, guidance, and mentorship to Accounting team members.
• Ability to lead, supervise and guide a team in a faced paced environment.
• Drive engagement and performance through hands-on leadership, 1:1’s, department meetings, performance management programs, engagement programs, or other programs as needed.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members to drive cultural initiatives forward and encourage behavior and programs in line with Measurabl’s (MSR’s) values.
• Ensure effective communication throughout the department to ensure team members are aware of their responsibilities and alignment with department and company goals.
• Maintain a team culture that is focused on continuous improvement, learning and development to ensure we are best positioned to deliver a world-class product to our customers.
• Drive MSR’s commitment to ensuring a diverse workforce through all stages of people management and development.

Accounting

• Strong technical and practical knowledge of GAAP accounting and familiarity with three statement models.
• Prepare and publish timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Perform high-level review of financial statements at month end, ensuring compliance with GAAP accounting standards including ASC 606.
• Supervise full accounts receivable process including timely invoicing and collections as well as meeting or exceeding corporate DSO targets.

• Supervise full-cycle accounts payable, including reviewing and validating all disbursements.
• Lead revenue reporting processes, reconciliation, and controls.
• Experience with corporate tax filings and reporting
• Strong treasury experience is required.
• Manage external auditor relationships to facilitate completion of audit procedures in a timely and efficient manner.
• Prepare and execute investor communications, board meeting materials, etc.
• Establish, implement, manage, and monitor critical accounting and reporting policies, processes and associated metrics.
• Work closely with the management team, set standards and drive compliance across the entire organization.
• Ability and strong track record of identifying process improvement with automation methods to create efficiency.
• Ability to design reports which present information in a concise manner for use by top management in decision-making.
• International accounting experience.
• Mamp;A experience, including post-acquisition integration experience.
• General ledger accounting system implementation and integration.
• Exposure to computerized interchange systems (ACH, Online Merchant Banking applications).
• Oversee the improvement, automation, and streamlining of current accounting and reporting procedures that contribute to scaling the accounting department to meet overall corporate strategic and business goals.

Collaboration

• Provide guidance to other managers to ensure leadership standards are shared throughout the organization.
• Coach department heads regarding their financial responsibilities and effective financial management techniques.
• Work cross-functionally to communicate and escalate issues and trends requiring attention from other departments.
• Work with all department heads to establish and monitor budgets and discuss ongoing performance against budgets and forecasts.
• Partner with customer-facing teams to find appropriate resolutions for customers when needed.
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to define feature requests required to achieve internal scalability and optimize customer billing experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Job Rewards and Benefits