Grant Thornton

Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations

Grant Thornton • $172K — $232K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting
  • CPA required
  • 10+ years of accounting and consolidation experience
  • 5+ years in leadership roles
  • Significant experience with global consolidations
  • Hands-on experience with OneStream or comparable EPM platform
  • Expertise in ASC 810 and ASC 830

Responsibilities

  • Direct global consolidation processes monthly, quarterly, and annually
  • Ensure accuracy of consolidated financial statements
  • Oversee consolidation adjustments and intercompany eliminations
  • Lead accounting close governance across finance organizations
  • Establish metrics for accounting close performance
  • Develop OneStream roadmap with stakeholders
  • Lead transformation initiatives for modernizing consolidation processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Employee assistance program support
  • Eligibility for a discretionary, annual bonus based on performance
  • Flexible benefits tailored to individual needs and experiences
  • Minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave
  • Participation in 401(k) savings and retirement plans for eligible seasonal employees
Full Job Description
Job Description

Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations

The Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations is responsible for leading the global financial consolidation, close. This is a newly created role resulting from the growth of the Grant Thornton Advisory multinational platform. This role oversees the integrity of the consolidated financial statements and drives the strategic development of consolidation processes, controls, reporting capabilities. This successful candidate will play a key leadership role in acquisitions, finance transformation initiatives, and continuous improvement of consolidation and close processes.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Accounting
  • Direct monthly, quarterly, and annual global consolidation processes.
  • Ensure accuracy and completeness of consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules.
  • Oversee ownership structures, legal entity hierarchies, consolidation adjustments, and intercompany eliminations in Onestream consolidation corporate performance management platform.
  • Manage foreign currency translation and multi-entity reporting processes.
  • Lead accounting close governance and coordinate activities across domestic and international finance organizations.
  • Establish accounting close performance metrics and drive continuous improvement efforts.
  • Partner with Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting and Financial Operations teams to support their teams reporting requirements.
  • Review consolidation support schedules and disclosures.
  • Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and applicable reporting standards.
  • Support technical accounting analyses affecting consolidation conclusions.
  • Ensure appropriate internal controls exist over consolidation, close, and reporting activities.
  • Support SOX compliance activities and management testing.
  • Coordinate external audit requests related to consolidation and financial systems.
  • Monitor compliance with established accounting policies and procedures

OneStream Strategy & Governance
  • Establish application governance standards, policies, and controls.
  • Partner with Finance Systems and IT teams on platform administration, upgrades, security, and support.
  • Develop OneStream development roadmap in collaboration with other stakeholders. Prioritize and oversee OneStream enhancement efforts.
  • Oversee metadata governance, chart of accounts management, dimension structures, and workflow design.
  • Ensure platform scalability to support growth, acquisitions, and changing reporting requirements.

Finance Integration and Transformation
  • Lead initiatives to modernize and automate close and consolidation processes.
  • Drive adoption of OneStream capabilities
  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes and spreadsheet dependencies.
  • Establish data governance and reporting standards across the finance organization.
  • Lead financial integration activities for acquisitions and business combinations.
  • Coordinate onboarding of acquired entities into OneStream.
  • Oversee consolidation impact assessments for new acquisitions
  • Develop integration playbooks and standard operating procedures.

Experience, Qualifications and Eduction
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
  • CPA required.
  • 10+ years of progressive accounting, reporting, and consolidation experience.
  • 5+ years of leadership experience managing accounting or finance organizations.
  • Significant experience overseeing global consolidations.
  • Hands-on experience with OneStream or other leading EPM platform
  • Experience supporting multinational organizations and their consolidation process
  • Public accounting background preferred.
  • Experience with acquisitions, including accounting following the guidance of ASC 805, as well -merger integrations preferred.
  • Expert knowledge of ASC 810 Consolidation, ASC 830 Foreign Currency Matters
  • Understanding of OneStream Business Rules and VB.NET logic a plus
  • Exceptional project and change management skills.
  • Ability to influence across functions and geographies.
  • Continuous improvement orientation.
  • Strong risk and control mindset.

The base salary range for this position is between $172,000 and $232,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Benefits:

We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that's a good thing. That's why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits

  • Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm's medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm's employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
  • Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm's medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm's employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm's 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.


Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.

About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton LLP is the American member firm of Grant Thornton International, the seventh largest accounting network in the world by combined fee income. Grant Thornton LLP is the sixth largest U.S. accounting and advisory organization. The firm operates 59 offices across the US with approximately 8,500 employees, 550 partners, and produces annual revenue in excess of US$1.9 billion. During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, The Times reported that Grant Thornton is in line to earn millions of pounds for acting as trustees in a bankruptcy case on behalf of the Russian state-owned DIA, who bypassed sanction regimes to obtain funds and assets from abroad in order to fund the war in Ukraine.
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