Director of Consolidations - Legence

Location: Houston, TX

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Takes ownership of and is responsible for the overall enterprise consolidation process, review of inter-company transactions and profit eliminations, and corporate consolidations accounting. This is inclusive of ensuring proper accounting for the Company’s corporate level transactions including eliminations.
• Coordinate, manage and support monthly consolidation close activities for timeliness, accuracy, and completeness. This includes ensuring preparation, review, and compliance of financial statements with GAAP and other applicable requirements, including management reporting requirements.
• Partners with the entire corporate accounting team, finance, tax and business units to support the consolidations and internal/external reporting processes.
• Prepares financial reporting, including internal and externals statements.
• Partner’s with the corporate technical accounting team and others to help drive accounting and reporting for complex accounting and reporting matters related to significant Company transactions (including acquisitions) and adoption of new accounting and regulatory standards.
• Assist, as needed, in the successful implementation of, update to, or augmentation of accounting related software including establishment and maintenance of control procedures.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls related to consolidations, accounting and financial reporting processes.
• Collaborate with external auditors to facilitate efficient audits and ensure compliance with audit requirements.
• Provide accounting support for monthly close and FP&A
• Coordinate and collaborate effectively with business units and cross-functional teams to gather relevant information for accounting and reporting purposes.
• Support management in the fulfilment of ad hoc requests and special projects.
• Effectively lead and mentor any direct reports and others supporting this position’s responsibilities.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Operates at the highest standards of business ethics, honesty, personal integrity, and professionalism.
• Strong attention to detail, rigorous and methodical.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude that takes initiative and drives results.
• Strong project management skills and ability to work remotely/hybrid and effectively in a distributed matrix organization. 
• Travel and off-site collaboration several times a year.
• Adaptable to change and ability to pivot priorities in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment. 
• Critical thinking skills to solve problems and identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Strong computer skills including knowledge of ERP systems, OneStream or HFM and other  financial applications.
• Advanced PC skills using Outlook, Word, Excel (ability to perform Pivots, V-lookups, X-lookups and other functions with Excel).

Required Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting. 
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Big 4 experience required.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting with demonstrated skills and experience in consolidations.
• Extensive knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting requirements. 
• Experience leading teams.

We are unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
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