Director-Accounting & Shared Services (Remote)

Director - Accounting and Shared Services - USWorking at INTO

As INTO continues to grow, so do the opportunities to join our global team. INTO University Partnerships collaborates with leading universities to provide international students with a personalized and highly supportive learning environment in which to acclimate to life on university campus and prepare for long-term academic success. INTO helps leading higher education institutions reach, recruit, and retain international students, promoting globally diverse campuses and providing life-changing learning opportunities. Since 2005, INTO has launched partnerships to internationalize universities in the US, UK, and Asia. To learn more, visit: www.intoglobal.com/working-at-into/

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Reporting line

The Director- Accounting and Shared services - US reports to the Vice President Accounting and Shared services (based in the UK head office).

Role Context

This is a senior role leading the North America Accounting and shared service team including all aspects of financial control, accounting, tax, treasury and statutory reporting for the US region. The Director- Accounting and Shared services - US is a pivotal position with regular exposure to Partners Management Boards, Finance Committees and US Executive Team.

Job purpose

This role leads the North America Accounting and shared service team of INTO delivering timely and accurate financial reporting, treasury capability, risk management and tax compliance for the region. The post has overall ownership for all external, internal financial reporting including audits and continued development of internal governance and control framework.

Key accountabilities and duties

• Ownership and development of regional accounting operations including financial policies, processes and controls to improve internal governance and control framework
• Ownership and continued refinement of accurate and timely regional month end close process
• Ensuring revenues are billed in line with contracts
• Lead regional year-end & audit process and be the key point of contact with external auditors ensuring clean audit opinions and an efficient audit process
• Management of the regions banking and insurance relationships
• Oversight of regional treasury processes for cash & liquidity management, forex, investment and intergroup debt management
• Lead tax compliance for the region managing tax advisers and specialists as necessary and ensuring processes comply with tax regulations
• Leadership of regional transactional and technical accounting Shared Services teams and centralized payroll function, motivating the teams to deliver efficient processes, leveraging automation and standardisation to deliver excellent transactional accounting services to the business
• Financial regional lead on various large scale transformational accounting and finance projects.

The job title does not define or limit your duties and you may be required to carry out other work within your abilities from time to time at our request. We reserve the right to introduce changes in line with technological developments which may impact upon your job duties or methods of working.

Location

The post can be done from any US location and is a fully remote role. Travel within the United States and abroad may be necessary and flexibility is required to meet the demands of the post, including occasional weekend working. The post holder may be reasonably required to work from any INTO or Partner location at any time.

Compensation & Benefits

This is a full-time, exempt position.

INTO takes care of their employees and ensures they are well and thrive with a comprehensive benefits package which includes:

• Health Benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Company-paid Life Insurance & Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
  • Voluntary Life Insurance & Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
  • Company-paid Long Term Disability (LTD)
  • Short Term Disability (STD)
  • Accident Insurance
  • Critical Illness Insurance
  • Whole Life Insurance
  • Hospital Confinement Indemnity Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Dependent Care Account (DCA)
  • Commuter FSA: Transit & Parking
• Paid Leave of Absence - Maternity, Partner, Adoption, Fertility Treatment, Bereavement, Compassionate, and other Personal Leaves
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) – starting at 22 days per year; increases to 27 days annually after 2 years of employment
• Holidays – 11 paid annually
• 2 paid Volunteer days annually
• 401(k) retirement plan – up to 6% company match; immediate vesting, after 6 month waiting period
• Educational Assistance
• Company-paid Health & Wellness Apps
• Rewards & Recognition programs
• Remote & Flexible Working options
• Company-paid Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
• Company-paid professional development courses

Required

Education/Qualifications

• CPA with significant post-qualified experience.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Proven ability to work as a senior manager with a variety of functional responsibilities.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills, including the ability quickly to grasp the "big picture" and exhibit judgment in drawing conclusions and solving problems.

Experience/Skills

• Experience of working in a corporate environment undergoing significant change or growth of the underlying business.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously, working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to interact effectively and to influence across all levels of management.
• Good team player with an ability to operate in a collaborative manner across business units and functions.
• Ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information.
• High levels of IT skills (Financial Systems, Excel and Word).
• Leadership and line management experience
• Experience of working in a customer focused environment.
• Experience of dealing with challenging customers and stakeholders.
• Committed and responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young adults.
• Previous experience of managing Tax, Treasury and Payroll functions

Desirable Experience/Skills

• Experience of Financial Force or similar online accounting platforms.
• Experience of acquisitions and managing finance integrations
• Business Process Improvement experience

How to Apply

Please click Apply at the top of the page to submit your Resume/ CV

INTO University Partnerships provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. INTO University Partnerships complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

Must be eligible to work in the US.

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