Why is this a great opportunity:
-Rare opportunity to work in the action sports industry
-Well-respected brand
-Company is at $200M and growing!
VP OF FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the timely and accurate preparation of financial statements, management reports, and tax returns in accordance with company
- Ensure the region maintains tax compliance with relevant regional requirements (including state based revenue taxes in both the USA and Canada).
- Manage the annual audit process with external auditors
- Maintain company registers with governmental filing
- Ensure compliance with international reporting and directives issued by parent company
- Lead local tax planning initiatives
- Manage the monthly reporting of financial results, ensuring timely, relevant, and accurate management reports
- Manage both the forecast and budget process and preparation for submission to parent company
- Interpret accounting information to appraise operating results in terms of cost, budgets, policies of operation and trends with the view to identifying where profit growth may be achieved and
- Active participation in regional management meetings, proactively identifying business improvement opportunities, which ultimately aid wider company efforts to achieve financial targets and KPI’s.
- Adhere to parent company finance directives, financial reporting and FP&A requests.
- Drive loss prevention strategies and processes, protecting company
- Analyze forward indicators in the business
- Analyze all new investments for appropriate cost benefit
- Manage regional credit risk and follow up bad
- Manage regional cash flows, optimizing interest returns while maximizing remittances back to
- Ensure appropriate corporate governance policies are in place and enforced, comply with head office
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA required (inactive status is OK)
- 10+ years of professional experience with at least 2 years at the VP level.
- 2+ years of experience at a national public accounting firm
- 5+ years of full oversight of Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Financial Analysis
- International company experience highly preferred
- Strong supervisory and leadership experience
- Apparel industry experience is required