Sr Director, Finance & Accounting

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to lead our accounting operations and financial strategy. This role is critical in driving accounting and financial excellence, fostering stakeholder trust, and solving complex challenges to grow and scale our business. The ideal candidate will bring robust industry expertise, exceptional analytical abilities, and the leadership qualities necessary to inspire and lead high-performing teams.

Responsibilities (People Leadership, Vision, Governance)

People Leadership

• Team management responsibilities may include payables, cash applications, banking, general ledger, financial reporting, and FP&A
• Responsible for recruiting, mentoring, training, and retaining a diverse team with the ability to delegate accordingly
• Develop clear department wide vision and goals each year that support company goals and objectives
• Participate and lead team through talent management and engagement initiatives while developing trust with department heads
• Responsible for M&A due diligence and technology implementation including analyzing the sales pitch, analyzing new business opportunities, validating numbers and building financial models for pro-form performance
• Develop a coaching strategy for staff to achieve or exceed goals and objectives

• Exhibit servant leadership and ensure team commitment to delivering quality service
• Regularly review performance with staff 
• Help staff focus on what is within their control to achieve success
• Celebrates success 
• Quickly address performance issues in a constructive manner
• Create positive accountability and follow-up to achieve goals

Vision & Execution

• Develop clear vision, goals, and objectives for the department that support company goals and objectives and keep team members focused on high performance
• Implement a strategy for departments to examine and improve key processes and is an operator of the business
• Develop and implement a regular feedback strategy for the department to evaluate results and make improvements
• Demonstrate understanding of our business to partner and solve complex problems cross functionally
• Instinctively leverage analytical skills to address root cause and gain stakeholder buy in for analysis and recommendation
• Leads data management across department with the ability to train and develop others for scalable growth  
   
   

Governance

• Ensure accounting teams have documented, auditable processes in place to accurately record transactions and have a continuous improvement mindset
• Evaluate and manage control risk for financial processes and ensure internal controls are in place to cover the five accounting assertions for each balance sheet account.  (Accuracy & Valuation, Existence, Completeness, Rights & Obligations, Presentation & Disclosure)  
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining proper internal controls to ensure effective internal control environment.  
• Responsible for all joint venture accounting including developing and managing rates for shared services support provided to external businesses
• Responsible for M&A financial forecasting and analysis and post-buy accounting integrations
• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting roll-out and present to high level, senior leadership meeting
• Identify and address root causes of operational and financial inefficiencies, ensuring sustainable and effective solutions
• Manage the annual external audit including adherence to budget and reporting date commitments
• Provide financial information to tax accountants, banks and counterparties as needed 
• Responsible for managing department’s cost and providing ideas and opportunities to consistently improve department’s efficiency
• Responsible for developing and reporting out department specific metrics including enhancing analytical support and new metrics to assess and improve the business
• Responsible for developing annual budget and reporting out budget variances.
• Responsible for department’s technology needs including general ledger accounting software, vendor relationship management, implementation needs, issue resolution, and enhancement needs.  

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• Undergraduate degree in accounting required 
• Active CPA license preferred
• MBA preferred

Knowledge & Experience

• Ten or more years in accounting, with at least three years in finance
• Five or more years of leadership in accounting/finance related organization
• Thorough knowledge of general ledger, intercompany accounting, consolidations 
• Proficiency with accounting/financial software packages with prior system implementation experience a plus
• Transportation or logistics experience and hedging knowledge
• Proficient use of Microsoft Excel
• Petroleum experience strongly preferred
• Public accounting experience preferred
• PDI-Enterprise ERP experience a plus

Qualifications & Characteristics

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; experience in effectively communicating key data, including presentations, to senior management
• Ability and desire to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers
• Able to gain respect and build strong relationships across organization
• Ability to multi-task
• Detail oriented
• Time and task management skills essential
• Ability to work effectively with minimum supervision to meet deadlines
• Independent thinker with a compliance mindset

 Work Environment

• 40-hour on-site work week, sometimes more depending on needs of the business and process cycles (month-end, year-end close)
• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, power tools, and other computer components

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.