Accounting Manager
| Hours | Full-time |
|---|---|
| Location | 10 S Riverside Plz Ste 2050 > Chicago, Illinois open_in_new |
About this job
Job Description
The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $145,000 plus bonus, and it comes with benefits, including medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance. To apply to this hybrid role please send your resume to john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m.
This role requires a pragmatic, commercially-minded CPA with Big 4 assurance experience who can evaluate accounting policies through an operational lens. Acting as a diplomatic liaison, you will manage SOX coordination, partner with internal controls to resolve audit gaps, standardize local operational finance processes, and eliminate administrative friction while upholding the highest standards of financial integrity.
Job Description:
- SOX Management & Process Coordination: Lead end-to-end SOX process management and coordination across operational sites, ensuring local control owners understand, execute, and document key controls effectively.
- Internal Control Gap Resolution & Owner Follow-Up: Liaise closely with the Internal Control team on identified control gaps, ensuring appropriate local operational contacts are engaged, accountable, and actively driving timely remediation with control owners.
- Corporate Policy Implementation: Liaise with Corporate Accounting on the rollout and practical implementation of new accounting policies, translating technical requirements into actionable operational guidelines.
- Operational Process Standardization: Partner with local operational finance and plant leadership to standardize core accounting and reporting workflows across manufacturing and distribution locations.
- Optimize Account Reconciliations & Manual Entries: Drive continuous improvement in balance sheet reconciliation workflows and manual journal entry (MJE) processes, resolving aging bottlenecks and establishing clean documentation standards.
- Technical Accounting Guidance: Provide practical US GAAP guidance across revenue recognition (customer rebates and discounts), lease and capital expenditure governance (CapEx vs. OpEx), and inventory cost accounting to ensure compliant, standardized, and efficient plant and commercial operations.
- Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.
Job Requirements:
Education: Bachelor's degree
Field of Study Preferred: Accounting, Finance, or a related business field
Required Work Experience:
- 5–8+ years of progressive accounting, internal control, and assurance experience.
- Public Accounting/Governance Background: Big 4 or top national public accounting firm (Assurance/Audit) experience auditing publicly traded manufacturing, industrial products, building materials, or complex distribution clients.
- SOX & Controls Track Record: Proven experience managing SOX compliance cycles, remediating control deficiencies with local control owners, and implementing standardized operational processes.
Required Training/Certifications: Active US CPA designation is mandatory.
Required Technical Skills:
- US GAAP & SOX Codifications: Expert knowledge of US GAAP standards—specifically ASC 606 (Revenue from Contracts with Customers), ASC 842 (Leases), ASC 330 (Inventory), and ASC 360 (Property, Plant, and Equipment)—alongside robust SOX 404 compliance frameworks.
- Systems & Tools: Strong working knowledge of enterprise ERP systems (specifically SAP ECC/SAC/Tagetik) and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets for financial data analysis.
To apply to this hybrid role please send your resume to john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m.
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