Director of Finance & Accounting

Director of Finance & Accounting

Location: Amherst, NYStarting Salary: Starting at $125,000.00 based on experience

Essential Functions

Management (with people reporting responsibilities) -

• Create and maintain a safe, secure, diverse, inclusive, engaged and compliant work environment that empowers employees to achieve departmental and company results
• Adhere to the corporate code of conduct
• Plan, organize and maintain department control in support of executing corporate and departmental business objectives that ensures productivity, goal achievement, budget and forecast adherence and allows for effective and efficient operations
• Recruit, select, onboard, and train new employees
• Lead and execute performance management activities to include DIALOG and performance improvement plans that support employee development
• Commit and foster adherence to the company's quality management system and timely execution of tasks assigned within it
• Work together with fellow managers in a professional, respective and collaborative manner
• Provide strategic direction and supervision to employees in the Accounting and Financial Reporting departments; foster a high-performing team culture through mentorship and coaching
• Oversee the preparation and reporting of the annual budget and forecasts
  
  

Supervise technical period end closing in FI and CO

• Manage preparation of monthly financial statements including all reporting requirements to the parent company
• Review account reconciliations and journal entries prepared by the Accounting department
• Oversee monthly cost analysis including communication and review of results with Management
• Coordinate all activities related to the year-end audit
• Evaluate and improve efficiencies within the department
• Assist in development and implementation of department and/or company-wide projects and initiatives
• Oversee cash management banking and financial institution relationships. Negotiate bank and service fees. Implement new bank technologies, products and services to improve cash cycle and simplify company operations.
• Manage all cash management functions including cash concentration, wires, accounting funding. Ensure adequate liquidity for working capital needs.
• Advise staff regarding the treatment of non-routine reporting transactions
• Develop flexible financing programs to enhance customer experiences without compromising company risk
• Prepare and present monthly financial package and ad-hoc requests to executive team
• Function as SAP Power User for accounting andfinancial reporting processes
  
  

Your Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in public accounting or corporate and financial accounting necessary
• Financial modeling and proficient computer skills required
• Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills required
• SAP experience preferred
  
  

Let's achieve our goal together.

If you are looking for a job where you can contribute actively, develop personally and professionally and make a lasting difference then this is the right place for you. As an international family business with a long-term perspective, we know that it is our around 3600 employees that are the key to our success. Let's achieve our goal together: Making people smile.

Ivoclar is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action and, as such, affirms in policy and practice to recruit, hire, train, and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. Ivoclar will not discriminate against persons because of their disability and will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities. We will also make reasonable accommodations during the interview and selection process.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)