VP, Corporate Controller/Chief Accounting Officer
Accuray
- Madison, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage and direct both the U.S. and International accounting functions, including providing leadership over balance sheet reviews and month-end close processes
- Hands-on oversight of global revenue accounting functions to ensure accurate and timely revenue reporting in a complex revenue recognition environment
- Work directly with regional commercial and operations leaders to support revenue operations; proactively advise on revenue deal structuring while ensuring GAAP compliance
- Establish and maintain the organization's accounting principles, practices, procedures, and initiatives on new accounting guidelines for effective adoption
- Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and compliant with GAAP and applicable international and local regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting
- Partner with other finance leaders to drive finance operational improvements including optimization of monthly and quarterly close cycle
- Drive organization improvements to develop the best team possible and work with staff to ensure that adequate development plans are in place so that we create and grow a bench of high performing finance and accounting talent
- Provide leadership to the Technical and Revenue Accounting team and ensure that all unique transactions have full transparency for revenue recognition and/or proper accounting/recording
- Ensure compliance with debt covenants
- Lead the interaction with China JV finance team and ensure JV’s financial results are properly integrated into the Company’s financial statements in accordance with US GAAP
- Own the global working capital delivery (AR and AP) and work with the FP&A team to project and deliver working capital performance commitments
- Drive continuous improvement to contemporize existing processes that optimize the utilization of our new SAP/ERP system
- Be a key contact to Legal and Compliance function to ensure that required compliance actions and steps are enacted into practice as would specifically relate to the global finance and accounting teams
- Act as the primary point of contact for the Company’s independent auditors and lead quarterly reviews and annual audit to successful completion, including timely filing of periodic SEC reports
- Prepare audit committee agenda and package on a quarterly basis; deliver key messages to the audit committee members along with the CFO
- Evaluate organizational structure against best practices for optimization of resources including a shared services model (insourcing/outsourcing)
- Partner with leaders across the organization to utilize accounting as a growth driver – leveraging previous experience with risk management
- Public accounting experience
- Requires BA or advanced degree in Accounting, CPA certification and skilled in US GAAP
- 10-15 years’ experience in medium to large scale organization ideally in med tech or capital equipment industry
- Working knowledge of US and international tax concepts
- Thorough understanding of and experience applying the provisions of ASC 606 in a complex revenue transaction environment
- Demonstrated expertise in a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures
- Experience managing large teams in a variety of global locations
- It is essential that prospective candidates possess excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills and understand the implications their actions and those of the Finance team will have on the strategic and organizational demands of a rapidly growing company. Additional professional qualifications will include, but not be limited to: