Successful retail company is seeking a well-versed and hands-on Accounting Manager for a three month temporary assignment.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to form a new accounting team
• Ensuring the proper functioning of the day to day accounting functions of AR, AP, General Ledger, Treasury, banking and tax filings.
• Responsible for supervision, training and hiring of AR, AP and General Accountants.
• Responsible for ensuring cross-training all accounting functions in the department.
• Supervises all month-end and year-end accounting procedures including preparation and entry of journal entries for AP, AR and General Ledger.
• Research complex accounting topics in conformity with US GAAP and IFRS.
• Review all Executives and Board of Directors reports.
• Review variance analysis for all departments and discuss results with executives.
• Coordinate and support the preparation of all schedules for the year-end audit.
• Prepare the annual audit report.
• Ability to successfully multi-task and manage multiple deadlines.
• Perform continuous assessment of the close process and process re-engineering to reduce the timing to close the financial period.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or other business-related degree.
• CPA license is a plus
• Experience in e-commerce and manufacturing preferred