Assistant Controller (Hybrid - Kennesaw, GA)

Company Overview 

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons’ most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion has over 1,400 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com. 

Position Overview:

The purpose of this position is to lead the financial closing process to ensure department goals and objectives are achieved, in alignment with Artivion’s mission and core values. To coordinate and oversee the monthly and quarterly closing process by leading, training, and developing the accounting staff members to ensure accurate and timely monthly closings and working toward improving and streamlining the processes. These processes include recording required journal entries, preparing general ledger account reconciliations, maintaining SOX compliance, and gathering financial information to support analyses, SEC filings, tax information and various other requests. 

Responsibilities: 

• Support the Sr. Director, Global Controller in managing the financial operations of the organization
• Monitor monthly/quarterly/annual closing progress to keep processes on track according to published closing deadlines and communicate status of closing on a routine basis
• Supervise and mentor accounting staff, fostering professional growth and development by proving training and day-to-day oversight of their activities and monitoring of their progress
• Oversee and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and other analyses prepared by staff accountants in accordance with review procedures
• Perform preliminary trial balance checks and account reviews to ensure successful and efficient closings
• Assist in review of monthly management reporting including Revenue tie, DSO, Global AR Reporting, Balance Sheet analytics, and other reports prepared by Staff Accountants and preparation of reports and presentations
• Monitor and oversee various routine transactions and processes related to fixed and intangible assets, leases, intercompany transactions, and running the monthly foreign currency revaluation process
• Prepare & coordinate monthly closing calendars with input from various Finance Directors and work with Finance Coordinator to distribute calendars timely
• Drive efficiencies and streamline the closing process while maintaining, implementing, and testing new closing tools, as needed
• Work with international teams to harmonize and align procedures globally
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, policies, and procedures, and oversee and review annual updates to SOX documentation for Financial close related processes
• Support internal and external audits thru the review of PBC lists and alignment on timing, attending status meetings, and overseeing preparation and timeliness of required documentation
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance financial processes and systems and support new entity setup and integration of new accounting software, or systems as needed
• Assist with various projects in the department including and other ad hoc duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting degree and knowledge of technical accounting issues required (Finance majors only accepted if they have obtained a MAcc and CPA license)
• 5 years exp required, with at least 2 years in a supervisory role, previous Big 4 or public experience exp preferred
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, vlookups, graphs, & sumif formulas) and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint exp
• Experience supervising staff accountants preferred
• CPA certification, Master’s Degree, or MAcc preferred
• Experience with integrated computerized accounting programs
• Proficiency in accounting software (SAP, Microsoft Navision, and Workday Adaptive Insights preferred)
• Strong and broad experience in accounting and finance with the ability to apply strong GAAP knowledge to business scenarios
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to solve complex problems through solution-oriented analysis and cost-effective solutions
• Comfortable working with sensitive data with the ability to maintain a high degree of discretion
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture

This is a hybrid position reporting to our Kennesaw HQ 2 days per week.