Financial Reporting Manager

Position Summary

The Financial Reporting Manager is responsible for leading the monthly consolidation process, owning and enhancing the consolidation system, and ensuring the accuracy and compliance of the company’s US GAAP financial statements, footnotes, and management reporting. This role provides technical accounting support, serves as primary liaison to external auditors. This role reports to Director, Technical Accounting and Reporting and serves as a key partner in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting while maintaining strong processes and controls and supporting strategic financial initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Consolidation and Monthly Close

• Lead the global consolidation process across multiple entities, including intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translation, and adjustments, ensuring timely and accurate consolidated results
• Perform and review analytical procedures on consolidated P&L, balance sheet, and non-GAAP measures to validate results and identify unusual trends or fluctuations
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and business owner for the consolidation and reporting system, including configuration, master data, user access, documentation of key processes
• Own the global chart of accounts including approving changes and maintaining ERP‑to‑consolidation mappings to support GAAP and management reporting.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of a new consolidation/reporting system, partnering with IT and external vendors; define requirements, support testing and cutover

Financial Reporting

• Prepare management reports, executive dashboards, and financial presentations for leadership review
• Ensure compliance with all internal and external reporting requirements and deadlines
• Collaborate with FP&A to provide accurate actuals for variance analysis and provide support for budgeting/forecasting process
• Assist with 10-Q and 10-K preparation including MD&A, footnotes and disclosures for financial statements in accordance with GAAP
• Support recurring and ad hoc reporting needs (management, board, lenders) by designing and maintaining system‑based reports and extracts

Technical Accounting

• Assist with research for complex and non routine transactions
• Coordinate with subsidiary controllers and accounting teams to ensure consistent application of accounting policies
• Monitor new and emerging US GAAP standards and relevant guidance; assess applicability and impact on the company, support new ASU implementation

Audit & Compliance

• Assist team with external auditors during quarterly reviews and annual audits
• Coordinate audit requests, prepare supporting documentation, and resolve audit inquiries
• Support the operation of internal controls over financial reporting, particularly those related to consolidation, financial reporting, COA/master data changes

Supervision of Personnel

• This role will not be responsible for supervision/management of other people.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, CPA preferred
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting and/or corporate accounting
• Experience with multi-entity consolidations and complex organizational structures
• SEC reporting experience is a plus
• Expert knowledge and experience of US GAAP and financial reporting requirements including financial statement preparation
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, complex formulas)
• Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or similar)
• Proficiency in consolidation software (Hyperion, OneStream, or similar preferred)
• Experience with SEC reporting tool (Workiva or similar) is a plus
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic thinking with a process improvement mindset

Location

• Prefer people who can work remote in the Eastern United States or on-site in Jacksonville, Florida, but may require up to 15% travel to IEM facilities, supplier sites, or for compliance audits or conferences.
• This role is not currently open to applicants who reside in or plan to work from the state of California.