Sr. Manager, Corporate Accounting

Provide leadership and accountability for assigned areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, well-supported, and available on schedule for management use.
Support month-end close processes, such as maintenance of the close checklist, review of journal entries, and completion of account reconciliations.
Implement and enforce high standards for balance sheet integrity, including timely, accurate, and well-supported reconciliations; ensure reconciling items are understood, resolved promptly, and prevented from becoming recurring issues.
Research, evaluate, and recommend accounting treatment for complex or unusual transactions, including 1031 exchanges, and document conclusions clearly.
Review financial statements and supporting analyses; exercise sound judgment to ensure compliance with GAAP, company policies, internal controls, and reporting requirements.
Build, develop, and retain a high-performing accounting team by setting clear expectations, differentiating performance, providing timely coaching and feedback, creating development opportunities, and building appropriate succession and organizational depth.
Plan and prioritize team capacity and workload to ensure appropriate coverage of critical deliverables while creating space for process improvement, cross-training, and professional development.
Challenge legacy processes and implement scalable, standardized solutions that eliminate low-value work, reduce manual intervention, strengthen controls, improve transparency, and reduce reliance on individual heroics.
Champion the responsible adoption of AI, automation, and emerging technologies within Corporate Accounting; identify high-value use cases, lead experimentation and implementation, establish appropriate controls, and drive team adoption.
Develop and monitor meaningful operating metrics and KPIs that provide visibility into close performance, reconciliation quality, issue resolution, workload, and overall process health; use those insights to drive action and accountability.
Lead complex accounting matters and special projects, serving as a subject matter expert for assigned legal entities and processes and translating technical requirements into practical, sustainable operating solutions.
Lead cross-functional initiatives with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Real Estate, Payroll, Accounts Payable, IT, business units, and other stakeholders where accounting outcomes depend on upstream processes, systems, data, or business practices.
Support preparation of year-end audit deliverables, internal financial reporting packages, legal entity tax packages, and personal and real property tax filings and payments.
Ensure critical processes have documented procedures and appropriate backup coverage.
Personally perform detailed accounting analysis, research, reconciliation, cleanup, and close-related work when business needs, complexity, or team capacity require direct involvement.
8+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including significant experience leading accounting teams in a complex organization and demonstrated success developing high-performing employees and future leaders.
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
Preferred qualifications:
CPA or equivalent professional certification.
Experience with a major ERP system, preferably Oracle, and demonstrated involvement in finance systems, automation, process transformation, or AI-enabled initiatives.
Experience working with internal and external auditors and leading cross-functional accounting or finance transformation initiatives.
Strong technical accounting foundation, including GAAP, internal controls, financial statement analysis, and the judgment to assess complex transactions, reporting matters, and operational risks.
Demonstrated ability to identify root causes, challenge existing practices, simplify complex processes, and implement sustainable improvements that measurably improve quality, efficiency, control, or cycle time.
Strong systems orientation with demonstrated success leveraging technology, automation, data, and emerging AI capabilities to improve finance operations; curiosity and learning agility to evaluate new tools responsibly.
Excellent written and verbal communication and cross-functional influencing skills, with a high degree of ownership, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and leadership behaviors consistent with The Wonderful Company's core values.
Pay Range: $160,000 to $180,000 and may include a discretionary bonus. Final compensation will be dependent upon skills & experience.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid