Close Accounting Manager

The GL, Accounting Manager is responsible for managing various enterprise-wide financial activities including sub general ledger accounting, monthly market accounting activities, and other accounting functions. Reporting to the Director, GL Governance, this position is newly created and will work to ensure governance with accounting activities throughout the company nationally. This individual will work to improve efficiencies and standardize processes and drives effective coordination with internal and external business partners to ensure processes are meeting the needs of the business. The role is also responsible for ensuring an effective internal control environment. The Accounting Manager works with all levels of management and staff of the Company to accomplish the aforementioned and provide the appropriate service levels in all areas. The ability to successfully handle multiple responsibilities and respond positively to demanding situations is essential to this position.

What You'll Do:

• Support in managing all aspects of the company’s General Ledger process is compliant to corporate accounting policies.
• The Accounting Manager will manage the overall accounting activities of the various markets; this includes account reconciliations, reviewing journal entries, and continually improve the standard close process.
• Responsible for other general financial accounting, reporting and analysis supporting the Shared Financial Services function. Performs routine financial analyses, period-end financial cycle closings, and preparation of periodic reporting.
• Drive effective coordination with internal and external business partners to ensure accounts receivables, accounts payable and other accounting processes are meeting the needs of the business
• Evaluate overall process based on technology available and identify weaknesses and areas of improvement. Offer solutions utilizing technology enablers.
• Support the GL Director in the management of Business Process Outsource (BPO) provider relationship, including training of support team and monitoring of service level agreement metrics

More About You:

Required & Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, Understanding and knowledge of US GAAP
• 6+ years of accounting or finance experience. Management experience required.
• Experience interfacing with internal/external customers, must have strong communication skills
• Experience in process improvement activities and the financial reporting close process
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office suite applications, with high degree of proficiency in Excel
• Accuracy and Attention Detail; Self-starter with strong organizational skills
• Experience working in shared service environment, preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics, preferred
• CPA preferred

To help promote and ensure the safety of all of our employees and the communities we serve, we require all incoming employees to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.  If hired, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination, which will be kept confidential. If you are not vaccinated, or partially vaccinated currently, but willing to become fully vaccinated, we invite you to still apply.

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Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD) is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best radio broadcasting group, a leader in virtually every segment of audio, and America’s #1 creator of original, premium audio.  Audacy engages over 170 million consumers each month, bringing people together around the news, sports, podcasts and music that matter to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp) and Twitter (@AudacyCorp).

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.