Senior Manager, Accounting

About Andela: 

Andela Talent Cloud is the industry’s only unified solution to manage the complete global talent lifecycle. We help enterprises source, qualify, hire, manage, and pay global technical talent in one integrated platform.

Market leaders partner with Andela to help rewrite their workforce strategies to include global, remote talent from over 175 countries to scale their teams and deliver projects faster.

Andela Talent Cloud provides an intelligent, AI-driven platform that helps enterprises build remote-fluent teams from emerging geographies such as Africa and Latin America. Powerful AI-matching algorithms learn from thousands of data points in the hiring journey to pinpoint the best engineers up to 70% faster at 30 to 50% less cost than other hiring approaches. Andela caters to specialized disciplines such as Application Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Data & Analytics, with over 30 specific use cases. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, ViacomCBS, and Mindshare.

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Accounting will report to the Global Controller and will be responsible for all aspects of the end-to-end expense/operations cycle to ensure that costs are accounted for properly. Critical to the success of the role is the ability to develop accounting organizational strategies by contributing accounting and financial information, analysis, evaluating trends, establishing critical measurements, resolving problems, and implementing change in line with organizational objectives. In this role, you will work closely with the FP&A team on monthly variance analysis, assist with providing financial projections, and with budget/forecast preparation. 

This role includes responsibility for the management of the Accounts Payable team, setting KPIs and goals to ensure effective treasury management and to continue building a high-performance team, as well as managing the procurement policy across the organization.

This is a hands-on role, and we are looking for someone who has excellent problem-solving skills and who enjoys working in a challenging and fast-paced environment to support our continued success and growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly close and ensure that all adjustments and accruals are recorded correctly in local entities and on the consolidated financials.
• Prepare and review monthly expense-related analyses.
• Work with the FP&A team to help provide financial projections, coordinate budget/forecast preparation, and collect, analyze, and consolidate financial information to provide the business with financial insights.
• Work with the Financial Systems team to monitor and evaluate accounting systems and processes to identify areas for improvement and optimization and support new system implementations and integrations.
• Manage the Accounts Payable team to ensure efficient and accurate processing of vendor invoices, and manage issues related to vendor payments.
• Review and respond to requests/inquiries from other cross-functional teams including Legal, FP&A, and Client Partners regarding expense transactions.
• Help oversee overall monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close processes and reporting.
• Help minimize legally required taxes by studying regulations, and presenting tax strategies to management.

Requirements

• A CPA in good standing with a minimum of 8-10+ years of proven work experience in financial operations, managerial accounting, Big 4 audit firm, or a related finance field.
• Proven people management experience. 
• Ability to take ownership of projects and drive them through completion.
• Strong experience with US GAAP and IFRS.
• Advanced MS Excel skills, strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels in the company.
• Organized, detail-oriented, able to prioritize tasks, and possess a strong work ethic.
• A plus, if previous work experience includes Netsuite and Coupa experience.

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Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!

• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela

• Flexible working hours

• Equity (as a part of the compensation package)

• Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only)

• Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave

And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.

At Andela, we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lie in the multiplicity of talents, perspectives, backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that. Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy (including breastfeeding), genetic information, HIV/AIDS or any other medical status, family or parental status, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above.
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