Overview

The Cathy Family Office exists to serve the Cathy Family and family enterprise as owners of Chick-fil-A, Inc. through facilitating stewardship of resources and tools to maintain a healthy enterprise and family.

 

This position will leverage their knowledge of accounting to help oversee financial statement preparation for 60+ entities. The ideal candidate has strong leadership abilities, a forward-thinking and collaborative mindset, and demonstrates excellent relationship-building skills with direct reports, leaders, and peers.

 

Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the reporting of the Family Enterprise financial statements
• Lead the team responsible for the accounting on various enterprise assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses(including capital assets)
• Serve as final review for all Family Enterprise reporting (60+ entities, varying types of entities)
• Directly oversee GL account reconciliations prepared by team
• Compile insights and commentary for monthly and year-end financial statement packet provided to family and to leadership
• Oversee identification and mitigation of Internal Assurance risks specific to financial reporting
• Provide oversight on accounting policies specific to team's responsibilities
• Oversee preparation of work papers and address auditor questions and requests for annual financial statementaudit
• Oversee partners/consultants and serve as relationship manager for banking relationships
• Use GAAP and not-for-profit accounting expertise to partner with the business to provide strategic direction for various projects and new initiatives across the business
• Identify improvement opportunities and work optimization efficiencies for the Cathy Family Office Accounting Function

Required Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, or equivalent work experience
• CPA
• 10+ years of experience
• 3+ years of people development and leadership experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including a mastery of Excel
• Financial acumen; strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Deep knowledge of accounting principles
• Experience with financial statement preparation and review
• Strategic and forward-thinking mindset
• Extreme attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects while meeting all deadlines
• Self-motivated; desire to continually improve outputs and meet all deadlines
• Strong organizational, communication and collaboration skills
• Detail oriented
• Ability to partner cross-functionally with other leaders

Preferred Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)

• Master's Degree in Accounting

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