Accounting Payables Specialist responsible for global payroll processing, audits, and compliance at A - LIGN. Collaborating with internal teams for financial integrity and operational efficiency.
About the role
- Director of Accounting providing strategic leadership for global accounting infrastructure at Hamilton Beach Brands. This role involves leadership in financial close, accounting policy, and control governance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global general ledger function, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of financial results across all domestic and international entities.
- Maintain strong balance sheet governance, including reconciliation standards and consistent accounting practices across subsidiaries and regions.
- Own and maintain the company’s global accounting policy framework, ensuring alignment with U.S. GAAP and providing guidance on complex technical accounting matters.
- Partner with the Financial Reporting team to support public-company reporting requirements and related disclosures.
- Strengthen the organization’s internal control environment, ensuring compliance with SOX and internal audit standards.
- Provide senior leadership in the company’s ERP transformation, helping design scalable accounting processes, chart-of-accounts structures, and financial system architecture.
- Drive global process standardization and operational efficiency, including opportunities to centralize and streamline accounting activities across geographies.
- Provide governance and oversight of key financial platforms and accounting technologies, including ERP systems and reconciliation tools such as BlackLine.
- Lead and develop a global, multi-layered accounting organization, building leadership capability across teams and strengthening the long-term finance leadership pipeline.
- Partner closely with the Controller, CFO, IT, Sales, and other business leaders to support strategic financial initiatives and enterprise decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; MBA or advanced business degree preferred.
- CPA or equivalent professional certification strongly preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive accounting leadership experience, including significant responsibility within corporate accounting or controllership functions.
- Demonstrated experience leading global accounting operations, including consolidation and enterprise-wide close processes.
- Deep knowledge of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and SOX compliance, ideally within a publicly traded company environment.
- Experience leading multi-country accounting teams and managing complex external audit relationships.
- Proven leadership in ERP implementations, financial systems modernization, or finance transformation initiatives.
- Strong expertise in financial systems, automation, and process optimization, including ERP platforms and reconciliation tools such as BlackLine.
- Experience operating across multiple international entities, currencies, and regulatory environments.
- Strong strategic thinking, executive communication, and change leadership capability.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Company HSA contributions
- 401(k) plan with immediate vesting
- Profit sharing
- Paid vacation, holidays, and a paid charitable day
- Summer hours to support work-life balance
- Employee discounts on Hamilton Beach products
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