Senior Accountant - Global Close & Workday Transition

About the role

A Senior Accountant is sought to join the Corporate Accounting team in New York (hybrid). The role supports accounting operations, process improvement and finance transformation across a group of global entities, improving consistency, efficiency and visibility of close activities. It is a hands-on position in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on the transition from Oracle to Workday Financials.

Key responsibilities

• Support monthly and quarterly close, including journal entries, reconciliations, financial statement review, flux analysis and general ledger activities.
• Help develop and improve the global accounting close calendar, coordinating activities, dependencies and deadlines across teams and entities.
• Review close processes to find opportunities for consistency, efficiency and simplification, and partner with teams to improve visibility of close status and bottlenecks.
• Help develop and monitor close metrics such as timeliness, outstanding activities, reconciliation status and post-close adjustments.
• Develop and maintain close procedures, process flows, ownership matrices and accounting policies.
• Partner with FP&A, Payroll, Procurement, Tax, Treasury and other teams on intersecting processes.
• Execute and coordinate Workday testing, validate accounting results, identify defects and confirm processes work as designed.
• Evaluate Oracle processes and identify opportunities to simplify, automate or redesign them, and resolve testing issues with implementation teams.
• Support post-go-live stabilization and continue improving efficiency, controls and reporting with Workday.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• At least 5 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, general ledger, reconciliations, financial reporting and month-end close.
• Experience developing close calendars or driving close acceleration initiatives.
• Big 4 public accounting and industry accounting experience strongly preferred; CPA or equivalent preferred.
• ERP implementation or finance transformation experience strongly preferred; Oracle ERP experience preferred.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel and comfort with large data sets.
• Workday Financials.
• Project management and coordination across stakeholders and workstreams.