Accounting Manager
JLL - Chicago, IL
Position Summary:
The Accounting manager role is part of the Americas Regional Finance team. A large element of the role is managing the team that is responsible for effectively budgeting, managing and reporting on cost allocations, depreciation, capital and non-capital spend while creating transparency around the spend and allocation methodologies. The position also works closely with Americas Business Service leaders throughout the region, primarily in the US but also across Latin America and Canada, to successfully budget and forecast financial results annually and analyze actual results against those estimates on a monthly basis.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage the finance team and support structure for Americas fixed assets, depreciation and business service organization P&L activity and allocations.
- Support annual budgeting activities for operating expense plans, including compensation planning for more than 650 employees. Present these budgets to the regional Business Service Leaders, including CFO.
- Drive mid-year forecasting activities to reassess initial budgets, report half-year progress and evaluate any additional cost or opportunities for savings throughout the remainder of the year.
- Review and analyze monthly P&L activity across the regional Business Service organizations, create & publish monthly reporting and provide meaningful variance analysis to the Business Service leaders, program leaders and finance leadership for actual activity against the most recent budget or forecasted data.
- Create and maintain strong relationships with business service leaders, program directors and Finance counterparts embedded within the finance organization to facilitate accounting activities relating to Americas fixed assets, depreciation and business service organization P&L activity and allocations
- Create process to support program leaders by providing long term program financial management, including analysis of actual costs to approved budget.
- Reconcile regional capital expenditures on a monthly basis to ensure propriety of existing assets, accuracy of in-service dates for WIP, and ongoing management of budgeted capital costs including likelihood of expenditures in the current year.
- Act as the primary liaison to KPMG for regular Sox and Audit requests & support for all relevant regional matters.
Qualified candidates:
- Possess a Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field with a minimum of 7 years of experience along with a CPA – with management experience and prior responsibility for month-end close and variance analysis & documentation.
- Possess analytical and problem solving skills, are poised to recognize & react to gaps in existing processes, and have a solid understanding of US GAAP to ensure it is adhered to across relevant areas
- Value and intend to build on what are already strong communication and analytical skills.
- Are quick to learn and master financial data systems for daily transactions, budgeting, consolidations, analysis and reporting.
Posted: 30+ days ago
