Company:

Our client is a publicly held Real Estate services company that operates in over 2000 locations in the United States and Europe. They are a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500 and publicly trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

Location: Glendale/Burbank area

Position: Director of Financial Reporting & Control

Salary: up to $170K (possible flex) + management bonus

Job Specs:

The Financial Reporting and Controls group, headed up by the Assistant Controller, has wide responsibility for the Company’s SEC and other outside and internal reporting, debt compliance, managing the relationship with the independent auditors, and managing the Company-wide sox compliance process. The individual we seek will report to the Assistant Controller and have a key role in these responsibilities, and in doing so have significant interaction with multiple department heads, process owners, internal audit and the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.

The person assuming this role will have the opportunity to exercise and strengthen internal control and GAAP technical competency, flexibility, interpersonal skills, writing and documentation skills, and common-sense addressing and management of risks.

While this position does not directly supervise personnel, it will have the authority to utilize and direct personnel resources within the financial reporting group.

The first significant challenge in this role will be taking responsibility for and ownership of the Company’s ongoing SOX internal control evaluation program, which includes hands-on documentation and testing in conjunction with the internal audit group and process owners, managing the Ernst & Young (E&Y) audit over internal control, managing the internal audit department’s role in SOX, training process owners, and evaluating and implementing new SOX requirements. Over time you will also generate and implement improvements to the process such as standardizing and developing a continuous control evaluation process and improve our documentation and efficiency.

The continuing SOX responsibilities will ultimately comprise roughly half of the role, with the remaining role comprising SEC reporting, internal financial reporting and analysis, accounting for complex areas, and special projects as needed.

Qualifications

This person needs to have an accounting degree from an accredited U.S. University and be a CPA.

A self-starting, confident, intellectually curious and meticulous individual with excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated career stability and a superior work ethic.

A generalist with recent work experience allowing them to immediately contribute in each of the areas of SOX internal control, SEC and GAAP reporting, and GAAP issue analysis.

The successful candidate will have the following profile gained in at least eight combined years of work experience in these two areas:

1. Audit experience in a “Big Four/Big 4” or National CPA firm auditing primarily Large Accelerated/SOX compliant clients. Preference for at least one year as senior in charge during the entire audit cycle of internal control and substantive procedures.
2. Increasing progressive responsibility at a publicly-traded, Large Accelerated and SOX compliant filer, with ownership and responsibility for a significant broad reporting area such as financial reporting, SEC reporting, or SOX internal control.

Other Requirements

• Ability to develop cooperative relationships
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• “Roll up the sleeves” and “follow through to completion” attitude
• Superior excel skills
• Self-starter with ability to multi-task and work under strict reporting timelines