Controller - Americas Region
JLL - Chicago, IL
Position Summary:
SUMMARY
The Americas Controller will be responsible for the accounting and financial reporting activities for the Americas region, regional governance and compliance, policy, and internal client relations. Reporting directly to the Americas Chief Accounting Officer.
OVERVIEW
- Oversight and ownership of the Americas financial audit, including adherence to S-Ox control certification
- Ownership of monthly, quarterly and annual financial close processes
- Oversight and management of business support unit accounting teams
- Coordination with global finance team
- Merger and acquisition due diligence and advisory support
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
MANAGEMENT | LEADERSHIP (30%)
- Establish relationships within Finance leadership team and National Business Line leadership
- Strategic thought leader; keenly focused on finance governance AND partnering with leadership to drive growth
- Prepare and communicate performance reviews for direct reports.
- Communicate best practices, goals, and feedback to develop each team member.
- Responsible for overall accounting team management, staff development and planning.
- Execute staff succession and growth plans.
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING (50%)
- Oversight of technical accounting research and policy decisions, including support of consolidations and equity method accounting, joint ventures and other contractual arrangements, business combinations, revenue recognition, compensation arrangements, leases, currency translation, and others on an adhoc basis.
- Oversight of technical accounting group, including providing guidance and insight to the business related to complex mergers and acquisitions.
- Participate in structuring of complex transactions and other special projects.
- Business partner for accounting impact of contract language and modeling.
- Oversee financial reporting and budgeting/forecasting for infrastructure businesses (HR, IT, Legal, Risk Management, Marketing, Finance etc.).
- Strategic decision making for infrastructure business spend and allocations.
- Provide efficiencies and process enhancements for risk analysis to comply with S-Ox control environment certification.
- Partner directly with Global Internal Audit team.
- Manage relationship with the external audit firm and ensure efficient and effective execution of its procedures on a quarterly review and annual audit basis.
- Lead controller meetings to address accounting concerns, share best practices and initiatives across regions with ASIA and EMEA.
ANALYSIS (20%)
- Perform periodic and ad-hoc value-added analysis of results against budgets/forecasts and prior year performance.
- Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities to company operations and financial results.
- Perform decision-supporting ROI/NPV analysis of major company potential initiatives and discretional project spend.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field
- MBA, preferred
- Minimum 15 years of experience in both public accounting (Big 4 preferred) and private accounting
- Experience working and communicating within multi-national corporations and/or SEC registrants a plus
- Experience in performing in-depth accounting research and translating that research into analytical, logical, and coherent written communications
CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES
- CPA
COMPETENCIES
FUNCTIONAL
- Solid understanding of accounting principles and ability to communicate key issues to finance, business support unit and business leadership.
- Expert in Microsoft Excel and Power Point; experience in Access, People Soft a plus.
- Experience in or familiarity with financial system implementations is preferred.
- Deep and broad based US GAAP knowledge and S-Ox control environment requirements
- Ability to track functional trends of the businesses supported and make recommendations to their strategies and annual goals.
INTERPERSONAL
- Strong interpersonal skills including diplomacy, the ability to build consensus & leadership skills in a collaborative setting.
- High comfort level with executive-level professionals.
- Creative problem solver that can identify sources of information from disparate sources and deliver comprehensive, balanced & actionable analysis and develop this skill in others.
- An independent nature with an analytical mindset & multi-tasking skills.
- Ability to mentor others.
- Executive level personality with influence and credibility. Excellent analytical, business intelligence and presentations skills – able to analyze raw data, draw conclusions, and develop/present actionable recommendations.
- Adept at forging strong relationships within a matrix environment; collaborative work style.
LEADERSHIP
- Provide opinions & develop creative solutions to complex business issues.
- The ability to anticipate business issues & influence managerial attention.
- Ability to clearly state the vision of the department and then successfully translate that vision into executable steps.
- Construct challenging development plans with stretch tasks and goals.
- Ability to lead complex projects, including managing expectations of multiple constituents along the way.
- Ability to provide clear sense of direction while being collaborative.
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