Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations
At a glance
Director-level Accounting role at Grant Thornton Advisors. New York · full-time · $172,000–$232,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run global monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidations, checking that statements and supporting schedules are complete and accurate
- Oversee entity hierarchies, ownership data, adjustments, intercompany eliminations, currency translation, and multi-entity reporting in OneStream
- Coordinate close work across domestic and international finance teams, set performance measures, and improve close routines
- Set OneStream governance and guide platform changes, metadata, chart of accounts, workflows, and the development roadmap
- Modernize consolidation work, reduce spreadsheet reliance, and bring acquired entities into OneStream through integration plans and procedures
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in accounting and an active CPA credential are required
- At least ten years in progressively responsible accounting, reporting, and consolidation work, including significant global consolidation oversight
- Five or more years leading accounting or finance teams, with experience supporting multinational organizations
- Hands-on experience with OneStream or another leading EPM platform
Who this fits
This director-level role suits an experienced accounting leader who has overseen global consolidations and can lead finance systems and acquisition integration work. The position is based in New York; its stated annual base salary range is $172,000 to $232,000.
From the employer
Grant Thornton is seeking a Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below.
Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations
The Director of Corporate Accounting and Consolidations is responsible for leading the global financial consolidation, close. This is a newly created role resulting from the growth of the Grant Thornton Advisory multinational platform. This role oversees the integrity of the consolidated financial statements and drives the strategic development of consolidation processes, controls, reporting capabilities. This successful candidate will play a key leadership role in acquisitions, finance transformation initiatives, and continuous improvement of consolidation and close processes.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Accounting
- Direct monthly, quarterly, and annual global consolidation processes.
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of consolidated financial statements and supporting schedules.
- Oversee ownership structures, legal entity hierarchies, consolidation adjustments, and intercompany eliminations in Onestream consolidation corporate performance management platform.
- Manage foreign currency translation and multi-entity reporting processes.
- Lead accounting close governance and coordinate activities across domestic and international finance organizations.
- Establish accounting close performance metrics and drive continuous improvement efforts.
- Partner with Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting and Financial Operations teams to support their teams reporting requirements.
- Review consolidation support schedules and disclosures.
- Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and applicable reporting standards.
- Support technical accounting analyses affecting consolidation conclusions.
- Ensure appropriate internal controls exist over consolidation, close, and reporting activities.
- Support SOX compliance activities and management testing.
- Coordinate external audit requests related to consolidation and financial systems.
- Monitor compliance with established accounting policies and procedures
OneStream Strategy & Governance
- Establish application governance standards, policies, and controls.
- Partner with Finance Systems and IT teams on platform administration, upgrades, security, and support.
- Develop OneStream development roadmap in collaboration with other stakeholders. Prioritize and oversee OneStream enhancement efforts.
- Oversee metadata governance, chart of accounts management, dimension structures, and workflow design.
- Ensure platform scalability to support growth, acquisitions, and changing reporting requirements.
Finance Integration and Transformation
- Lead initiatives to modernize and automate close and consolidation processes.
- Drive adoption of OneStream capabilities
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes and spreadsheet dependencies.
- Establish data governance and reporting standards across the finance organization.
- Lead financial integration activities for acquisitions and business combinations.
- Coordinate onboarding of acquired entities into OneStream.
- Oversee consolidation impact assessments for new acquisitions
- Develop integration playbooks and standard operating procedures.
Experience, Qualifications and Eduction
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
- CPA required.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting, reporting, and consolidation experience.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing accounting or finance organizations.
- Significant experience overseeing global consolidations.
- Hands-on experience with OneStream or other leading EPM platform
- Experience supporting multinational organizations and their consolidation process
- Public accounting background preferred.
- Experience with acquisitions, including accounting following the guidance of ASC 805, as well -merger integrations preferred.
- Expert knowledge of ASC 810 Consolidation, ASC 830 Foreign Currency Matters
- Understanding of OneStream Business Rules and VB.NET logic a plus
- Exceptional project and change management skills.
- Ability to influence across functions and geographies.
- Continuous improvement orientation.
- Strong risk and control mindset.
The base salary range for this position is between $172,000 and $232,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.